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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Obama administration relied chiefly on federal immigration agencies within the Department of Homeland Security—principally U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Pro...
Multiple peer-reviewed and government-funded analyses find that undocumented immigrants have substantially lower arrest, conviction, and incarceration rates than U.S.-born citizens across major offens...
Court decisions shaped how the Obama administration balanced removal of noncitizens with obligations to U.S.-citizen children largely by intersecting with executive guidance and enforcement priorities...
Secure Communities, launched before and expanded during the Obama years, vastly increased fingerprint-based matches that fed ICE removals — ICE reported Secure Communities had produced more than 142,0...
President Obama’s administration oversaw a shift from “returns” at the border to formal removals — contributing to record removal numbers in the early 2010s — while also issuing internal enforcement m...
Data-driven reviews from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC/Syracuse), and reporting by the New York Times converge on a complex portrait of Oba...