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President Barack Obama directed and used U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as the principal interior enforcement arm to remove unauthorized immigrants during his administration, producing...
There is no single, verifiable figure in the documents provided that counts “how many” people President Obama’s administration deported “without due process of law”; official and advocacy sources offe...
The Obama administration pursued a mixed strategy toward sanctuary cities: it narrowed federal deportation priorities and replaced Secure Communities with the Priority Enforcement Program (PEP), empha...
President Obama’s administrations oversaw millions of removals—already described in government and media analyses as “historic” totals—but his enforcement policy shifted toward prioritizing recent bor...
ICE locates and arrests undocumented immigrants through a mix of data-driven identification, criminal-justice referrals, targeted field surveillance and cooperative partnerships with local and federal...
’s presidency the federal immigration enforcement posture shifted away from the spectacle of large, helicopter‑style workplace raids toward targeted operations, employer prosecutions and administrativ...
— documented cases show that immigration agents detained citizens during the years, but the evidence indicates these were not the stated policy objective and ; scholars and news organizations have com...
Policy choices made under President Obama produced an enforcement regime that sharply increased removals early in his tenure, refocused enforcement priorities toward criminality in later years, expand...
The Obama administration inherited and expanded a sprawling immigration detention system while promising reforms that largely failed to materialize: bed quotas and contracting with private facilities ...
ICE enforcement priorities shifted from a narrower, “public‑safety‑focused” approach under Obama—emphasizing removal of serious criminals and recent border crossers and encouraging prosecutorial discr...
Immigrant-advocacy groups criticized several Obama-era Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations and DHS enforcement policies for being indiscriminate, family‑tearing, or procedurally unfai...
The administration drew intense criticism for deportations from both the left—who called him the “” and protested rushed removals—and the right—who argued he was too lax on —reflecting a mixed, centri...
Research cited by multiple outlets finds that mass deportations are more likely to raise — not lower — home prices by shrinking construction labor, slowing new building, and increasing repair and deve...
There is no authoritative, publicly available count of “wrongful arrests” by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the Obama administration; the reporting and databases compiled by adv...
Two Republican-sponsored 1996 laws signed by President Bill Clinton — the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRAIRA) and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (A...
Deportation totals and tactics since 1990 show shifting priorities: Democratic administrations (notably Clinton and Obama) oversaw higher annual formal removals on average through 2018 — about 246,006...
By multiple datasets and journalistic analyses, administration oversaw substantially more recorded deportation "removals" over two terms than administration did in a single term: Obama’s eight-year to...
Unauthorized immigrants exert complex, sector-specific pressure on wages: research finds small downward effects on wages for competing low‑skilled workers in some settings but complementary gains for ...
Barack Obama’s administrations oversaw more formal removals (often called “deportations” in public debate) than earlier presidencies on an annual and per‑year basis, producing a total that many resear...
The administration employed at the border and expanded interior-enforcement programs such as while also issuing prosecutorial-discretion memos and creating , a mixed toolset that both raised formal re...