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Jan 12, 2026
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How many deportations were there during the Obama administration?

The count depends on the metric: using Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fiscal‑year data for formal removals (what many sources call “deportations”), the Obama administration oversaw more than 3 ...

Dec 9, 2025
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How many illegals entered our country under Biden

Estimates vary because officials, analysts and media use different measures: Border Patrol “encounters” since January 2021 exceed 10 million, about 8 million at the southwest land border, but that raw...

Nov 12, 2025
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is trump an asshole?

The direct question—“is Trump an asshole?”—is a normative judgment that different observers answer differently, but empirical and philosophical sources converging across the record describe a pattern ...

Dec 18, 2025

How many Muslims live in the United States as of 2025 and what are the main data sources?

Three competing estimates circulate for the number of Muslims in the United States around 2025: roughly 3.4–3.9 million from public-data aggregators and survey firms, about 4.5 million from the 2020 U...

Dec 3, 2025

What percent of the somali-american community voted for trump in 2024

Available polling and reporting indicate a clear majority of Somali Americans continued to favor the Democratic ticket in 2024, while Republican support in parts of the community rose to roughly the l...

Nov 16, 2025

How many illegals were deported by Obama

Available sources show a range of figures but consistently report that the Obama administration carried out more removals/deportations than most recent presidents: reporting includes “more than 2 mill...

Nov 30, 2025

What percentage of eligible voters voted for Trump in 2024 nationwide?

Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential popular vote by about 1.5 percentage points and captured 312 Electoral College votes, according to Pew’s post‑election analysis . National turnout of the voting‑...

Nov 15, 2025

Barack Obama is a Muslim

Public reporting and biographical sources say Barack Obama has publicly identified and practiced as a Christian: he was baptized at Trinity United Church of Christ in 1988 and is described as a Protes...

Dec 17, 2025

have any americans actually been deported

Yes — U.S. authorities have carried out large numbers of removals in 2024–2025: government and research counts put removals/deportations in the hundreds of thousands (ICE/MPI estimate ~340,000 for FY2...

Dec 3, 2025

Government assistance percentage

Roughly one in eight Americans received SNAP (food stamp) benefits in 2024–25: USDA data show SNAP served about 41.7 million people in fiscal year 2024 — roughly 12.3% of the U.S. population — and oth...

Dec 21, 2025

How many illegals entered under Biden

The short answer: there is no authoritative source showing "20 million" or "25 million" people illegally entered and remained in the United States during the Biden presidency; government encounter cou...

Dec 2, 2025

how many abortions were performed in 2024 in the United States?

Two leading research projects put 2024 U.S. abortion totals in different places: the Guttmacher Institute’s Monthly Abortion Provision Study reports about 1,038,100 clinician‑provided abortions in sta...

Nov 25, 2025

How many people died during deportation under Barack Obama 2009 2017?

Official counts and reputable summaries show that during Barack Obama’s presidency (fiscal years 2009–2016) there were more than 3 million formal removals (often reported as “deportations”), and when ...

Oct 4, 2025

Which US states have the highest numbers of undocumented immigrants in 2025?

Recent 2025 estimates consistently place at the top for numbers of undocumented immigrants, with a commonly cited ranking listing California first (about ), followed by Texas and Florida, then New Jer...

Dec 11, 2025

Did Trump win the popular vote in the U.S. 2024 Presidential Election?

Donald Trump won the 2024 national popular vote by a narrow plurality — roughly 77.3 million votes (about 49.8%) to Kamala Harris’s roughly 75 million (about 48.3%) — a margin of about 1.5 percentage ...

Jan 14, 2026

How many illegal aliens are in the US as of December 31, 2025

No single, authoritative tally exists for how many people were living in the United States without legal status on December 31, 2025; independent researchers and advocacy groups produce divergent esti...

Nov 25, 2025

How did U.S. border crossing numbers change year-by-year under each presidential administration since 1990?

U.S. border “encounters” rose sharply during the Biden years, peaking in 2023 at roughly 3.2 million CBP-recorded encounters nationwide and roughly 3 million+ at the southern border in recent peak yea...

Dec 2, 2025

How does Trump's pardon count compare to other recent presidents like Obama and Biden?

Joe Biden granted far more acts of clemency than recent predecessors, with Pew reporting his commutations alone were more than double Barack Obama’s 1,715 commutations during Obama’s eight years . Don...

Dec 4, 2025

What documented racist comments has Donald Trump made about Hispanic and Latino communities and when?

Donald Trump has repeatedly used rhetoric and statements that critics and multiple organizations describe as racist toward Hispanic and Latino communities, including calling Mexican immigrants crimina...

Nov 15, 2025

Jews control the USA government

Claims that “Jews control the U.S. government” are a longstanding antisemitic trope; available reporting shows active Jewish participation in American politics and influential pro-Israel lobbying but ...