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Deportations during the Biden presidency, compared to Trump-era totals
Federal sources do not publish a clean, single-line tally of “ in 2025,” so any precise headcount requires combining partial official releases and secondary estimates: the estimated roughly 340,000 to...
The raw counts of “” reported by and vary greatly by administration, by fiscal year, and by the statistician counting them; available public reporting shows -era totals in the millions over two terms,...
The most reliably documented figure for immigration custody during is 26 people in custody over his four-year term (reported by ICE and summarized by news outlets and advocacy reporting) . Separately,...
The best available, directly cited tally for “deportations” tied to the first Biden administration year comes from government-compiled summaries reported by Factchequeado: 59,011 removals in fiscal ye...
The simple numeric comparison is messy: Obama’s presidency recorded large cumulative removals over two terms, Biden’s recent years saw deportation totals climb—largely driven by voluntary returns at t...
The arc of U.S. deportation priorities shifted from a narrower, tiered enforcement model under Obama that emphasized criminals and recent border crossers to a broader, more permissive enforcement post...
A complete, year-by-year breakdown of deportation “rates” aligned precisely to each president’s calendar year is not available in the materials provided; however, published analyses and government yea...
The 2025 deportation picture is contested: the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and administration statements tout hundreds of thousands of removals and voluntary departures—over 527,000 deportat...
Two intertwined streams—administrative policy shifts (prioritization, moratoria, expansions of expedited removal and asylum restrictions) and high-stakes court rulings over those policies—drove much o...
President Barack Obama oversaw among the highest counts of federal “removals” and returns in modern U.S. history, with commonly reported totals around 3 million deportations during his eight years in ...