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President of the United States from 2009 to 2017
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...
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 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 ...
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...
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 — 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...
Yes — the Trump White House installed new plaques beneath presidential portraits along a newly styled “Presidential Walk of Fame” (also called a “Wall of Fame” or similar) in the West Wing colonnade t...
Yes — Thomas (Tom) Homan was appointed during the Obama administration as ICE’s executive associate director (sometimes described as assistant/assistant director) for Enforcement and Removal Operation...
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...
Former President Barack Obama ordered multiple military strikes and sustained air campaigns without new, specific congressional authorizations — notably interventions in Libya and expanded airstrikes ...
Barack Obama presided over higher aggregate removals and ran a tiered prioritization system that officially focused on national-security threats, serious criminals and recent border crossers , while D...
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...
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...
The White House "Presidential Walk of Fame" was updated in December 2025 with new explanatory plaques written in the voice and worldview of President Donald Trump; reporting shows the plaques range fr...
Yes — protesters repeatedly demonstrated against deportations during Barack Obama’s presidency, from small vigils and campus rallies to mass marches and civil‑disobedience actions; reporting cites pro...
A new set of plaques—the White House’s so‑called “Presidential Walk of Fame”—was installed beneath portraits outside the West Wing and contains short, partisan character sketches that in many cases di...
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...
Claims that President Barack Obama spent $376 million (or similar $300–$400M figures) of taxpayer money to build a White House basketball court are false: the existing South Lawn tennis court was adap...
Quantifying annual deportations by U.S. president since 1990 is complicated by multiple data categories (formal “removals,” “returns,” Title 42 expulsions and voluntary departures) and by different ag...
Estimates of civilian deaths from Obama-era drone strikes vary widely: some activists and researchers say “at least hundreds” were killed , while activist groups argue U.S. government tallies—cited as...