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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...
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...
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...
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...