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4th United States Secretary of Homeland Security (born 1957)
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 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 ...
Secure Communities fundamentally rewired how ICE identified potential deportees by automating fingerprint-sharing from local arrests to federal immigration databases starting in 2008–09, dramatically ...
Shifts in ICE policy across the Obama, Trump and Biden years produced measurable changes in who was detained, how often families were separated, and the composition and volume of removals: Obama narro...
Obama-era ICE prioritization memos codified a constrained, risk-based approach that directed enforcement resources toward national-security threats, serious criminals, recent border crossers, and repe...
The Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) was introduced in late 2014 as a narrower, priority-focused replacement for the Secure Communities (S‑Comm) data-sharing and detainer system, swapping broad auto...
ICE says it prioritizes people who pose threats to public safety, national security, or who recently crossed the border — and it also lists non‑citizens without convictions who repeatedly violate immi...
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 agencies primarily responsible for handling family deportations during President Barack Obama’s administration were the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) components, chiefly Immigration and Cu...