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Public data from the sources provided show in reported deportation counts since President Trump took office in 2025: independent trackers report tens of thousands of formal removals while policy model...
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) review found that , while other analyses indicate the true figure could be higher because of poor record-keeping and identification errors. Broader datasets an...
Government audits and multiple news analyses document instances where U.S. citizens were wrongly identified, arrested, detained or even removed in immigration enforcement actions; a 2025 GAO-based cou...
Interior (non‑border) removals fell sharply under Biden compared with earlier years, even as total deportations and returns rose due to border processing and expulsions; shifts in prosecutorial priori...
Yes — multiple reputable reports document that U.S. citizens were mistakenly detained and, in at least some instances, deported during President Trump’s most recent administration; courts intervened t...
Documented cases of U.S. citizens being wrongfully detained and, in some instances, deported in recent years are well-established in legal filings, news investigations and advocacy reports; researcher...
Data compilations and reporting agree that President Obama oversaw very high numbers of deportations (often reported as “removals” plus “returns”), with multiple summaries putting the eight‑year total...
Naturalized U.S. citizens face a demonstrable — if relatively uncommon — risk of wrongful detention by immigration authorities; reporting and advocacy groups documented dozens of cases in 2025 and res...
The best-established, government-backed figure comes from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), which concluded that as many as 70 people identified as potential U.S. citizens were deported...
Multiple independent analyses of 2025 ICE data show that roughly seven out of ten people held in ICE custody had no criminal conviction; Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) reports 73.6%...
Yes — available reporting and government documents show ICE has been detaining large numbers of people who have no criminal convictions or only minor offenses, and many have been held for extended per...
Government records and investigative counts disagree, but available reporting shows confirmed wrongful actions range from dozens to thousands depending on method: the U.S. Government Accountability Of...
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...
Yes — U.S. citizens are being wrongfully detained and, in multiple documented instances, deported; courts, advocacy groups and journalists have identified dozens of cases where citizenship was ignored...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that ICE removed 70 “potential U.S. citizens” from fiscal year 2015 through the second quarter of fiscal year 2020, and that ICE’s recordkeeping and pr...
U.S. citizens are sometimes swept up in ICE and CBP operations through a mix of operational practices—detainers, “at‑large” arrests, appearance‑based profiling, and mistaken records—that lead to tempo...
No reliable, specific count of how many lawful permanent residents (green card holders) ICE arrested or deported in 2025 can be produced from the reporting supplied: the public coverage and datasets c...
Across the sources provided, Barack Obama’s two terms recorded higher total removals/deportations than Donald Trump’s first term and—by mid-2025—appear higher than Trump’s ongoing second term to date....
ICE, the Department of Homeland Security (OHSS/DHS), and the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) all publish or compile , but they differ in timing, scope and formats; ICE posts ERO stat...
The available analyses show for removals during the Obama presidency: a headline figure of across eight years and a contrasting figure of , reflecting differences in counting methods and definitions. ...