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4th United States Secretary of Homeland Security (born 1957)
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...
Photographs from 2014 show children behind chain‑link fencing at U.S. border processing sites during the , and officials at the time described chain‑link partitions or fenced enclosures used to hold m...
Yes: organized protests and high-profile public pushback against and occurred repeatedly during ’s terms, ranging from rallies and fasts to disruptive actions at political events; however, the availab...
The Obama administration formally shifted removal policy toward a —primarily national-security threats, serious criminal convictions, and recent border crossers—through a series of memos beginning wit...
Yes — facilities with chain‑link enclosures often described as “cages” were built and used during the Obama‑Biden years, particularly during the 2014 surge of unaccompanied minors, but that factual po...
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...
Thomas (Tom) Homan’s 2015 Presidential Rank Award drew sharply contrasting responses: the Department of Homeland Security and ICE framed it as recognition for "sustained extraordinary results" in depo...
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...
The Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) replaced Secure Communities in late 2014 with the stated goal of narrowing immigration enforcement to convicted criminals and other high‑risk individuals rather ...
The Biden-era DHS memoranda of 2021–2022 reoriented enforcement toward case-by-case prioritization and prosecutorial discretion, instituting a 100‑day pause on many removals and consolidating guidance...
The Obama-era ICE prioritization memos—chiefly the Morton memos of 2011 and Secretary Jeh Johnson’s DHS/ICE guidance culminating in the November 2014 Priority Enforcement Program (PEP)—sought to conce...
Jeh Johnson steered DHS toward a narrowly prioritized deportation strategy that emphasized removing noncitizens who posed threats to public safety, national security, or border integrity while using p...
The November 20, 2014 DHS memos from Secretary Jeh Johnson narrowed and clarified federal removal priorities—focusing ICE resources on national security threats, serious criminal convictions, and rece...
Since 2010 components have layered and revised : DHS published overarching policies in 2004 and updated them periodically with a notable public release of component policies in 2014 and a department u...
The Morton memos (2010–2011) and November 2014 enforcement directives reoriented immigration enforcement away from mass interior toward a narrower set of priorities—recent border crossers, national‑se...
issued a sequence of enforcement memoranda—beginning with Director John Morton’s 2010–2011 prosecutorial-discretion memos and culminating in ’s November 20, 2014 DHS‑wide guidance—that redefined who w...
The , announced in November 2014, narrowed the circumstances under which would request that local jails hold or notify on people suspected of being removable, replacing the blunt I-247 detainer with n...
Immigrant-rights groups coordinated protests against during through nationwide, multi-tactic campaigns that combined mass marches, targeted civil disobedience, , media disruptions and litigation — all...
The arc of deportation policy ran from the 2011–2012 “” that urged prosecutorial discretion toward low‑priority cases to the memos under that codified three DHS‑wide enforcement priorities and operati...
Secure Communities (S‑Comm) centralized fingerprint-sharing between local jails, the FBI, and ICE and rapidly expanded under the Obama administration, producing large numbers of interior referrals and...