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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...
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...
President Obama’s administration both expanded automated data-sharing programs that increased interior identifications of noncitizens (Secure Communities) and later narrowed enforcement focus with mem...
The Obama administration both expanded and later reined in two key programs that tied local policing to federal immigration enforcement: Secure Communities was pushed widely into jurisdictions early i...
— beginning in the early years the administration explicitly reoriented immigration enforcement to prioritize the removal of noncitizens with criminal convictions and recent border crossers, a shift r...
The Obama-era ICE enforcement priorities from roughly 2012–2017 centered on . Policy milestones include John Morton’s 2010 guidance, successive DHS memoranda culminating in the November 2014/January 2...
President Obama’s administration oversaw a shift from “returns” at the border to formal removals — contributing to record removal numbers in the early 2010s — while also issuing internal enforcement m...
During , deportations were driven by a mixed system in which formal removals often required a court order but an expanding set of DHS-led "nonjudicial" removal mechanisms and prioritization memos shar...
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 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 were a set of 2011 internal memoranda from Director John Morton that formalized prosecutorial discretion and new for apprehension, detention, and removal—telling ICE personnel to prioritize threat...
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...
formally prioritized removal of noncitizens who were national-security threats, recent border crossers, or those with criminal convictions or gang involvement—framed as “priorities” rather than a blan...
The Obama administration issued memoranda in 2010–2014 that set narrow, tiered ICE enforcement priorities emphasizing threats to national security, public safety and recent entrants and encouraged pro...