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President of the United States from 2009 to 2017
The most widely cited tally for deaths in custody during the presidency is , a figure reported by a coalition report titled and repeated in media and advocacy accounts . That number has become a short...
Yes — immigration agents under ICE and related DHS components fired their weapons and were involved in shootings during the Obama years, but publicly available reporting does not provide a single, ver...
Barack Obama did present a 2015 Presidential Rank Award to Thomas D. Homan — commonly referred to in press as Tom Homan — when Homan, then ICE’s Executive Associate Director for Enforcement and Remova...
During the Clinton years ICE’s predecessor systems and enforcement tools produced some of the highest deportation counts in modern history, and during the Obama administration ICE shifted toward “prio...
Data and reporting show that Obama-era ICE removals were higher in raw counts across his two terms, with more than 3.1 million deportations logged during 2009–2016 . But multiple analyses and contempo...
Yes — multiple contemporaneous reports and official notices show that received a 2015 Presidential Rank Award while serving as ’s executive associate director for Enforcement and Removal Operations, a...
Yes — facilities with chain‑link enclosures often described as “cages” were used to hold migrant children under the Obama administration, especially during the 2014 surge; those same types of enclosur...
The short answer: multiple reputable reports and advocacy groups have reported that 56 people died while in custody during , but that number is not a single, uncontested official toll — it reflects a ...
By the most widely cited counts through 2025, ’s two terms oversaw more total (removals plus ) than ’s presidencies to date, though the gap narrows or reverses depending on which categories—formal rem...
President Barack Obama did not notify Congress before the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and the administration framed the strike as lawful under the 2001 AUMF and principles of self‑defen...
The claim that “many people died being deported by the Obama administration” is : deaths in U.S. immigration detention and during deportation processes occurred across multiple administrations, and su...
President Obama’s administrations relied heavily on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to carry out removals, producing more than over eight years with a fiscal-year peak in 2012 of roughl...
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 ...
The claim that “every person deported under Obama had due process” is false: , raising persistent due-process concerns. Multiple contemporaneous and retrospective studies document that many removals w...
A straight head‑to‑head on deaths shows more reported deaths under the administrations than under , but the comparison is clouded by rising detention populations, incomplete reporting and agency pract...
Yes — ICE and broader immigration-enforcement policies were the focus of sustained protest activity during President Barack Obama’s tenure; activists, immigrant-rights groups and sympathetic politicia...
The count depends on what is being measured: in custody during the Obama administration according to a FOIA-based NGO report, while independent reporting has identified dozens of deportees who were mu...
A coalition report published by the ACLU, Detention Watch Network and the National Immigrant Justice Center counted 56 people who died in ICE custody during the Obama administration, and highlighted t...
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...
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 ...