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American politician, lawyer, and academic administrator (born 1957)
The Obama administration oversaw historically high numbers of removals—often cited as more than 2 million across his two terms and record annual peaks such as roughly 438,421 removals in FY2013—prompt...
used and to carry out large-scale interior removals and to operationalize , including chartered and commercial flights, while shifting enforcement priorities toward criminal convictions and national-s...
A direct apples‑to‑apples count of under versus other administrations is not available in the materials provided; reporting shows programmatic priorities and public claims about performance rather tha...
Barack Obama’s administrations carried out roughly 2.7–3.0 million formal removals (“deportations”) over his two terms, and when returns (voluntary departures) are included some counts place the total...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shaped deportation policy under Obama primarily by formalizing and programs like DACA and the Priority Enforcement Program to focus removals on national-secur...
presided over a major operational expansion of federal immigration enforcement programs that pushed activity into nearly every state—most notably through the rollout of and related initiatives—which s...
Across reputable reporting, administration carried out between roughly and nearly 3 million removals/“deportations” from 2009–2016 depending on how the term is defined and which agency actions are cou...
President Barack Obama announced Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on June 15, 2012, after congressional efforts such as the stalled DREAM Act failed to pass; the program was implemented b...