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Efforts to control the border, including deportation and enforcement agendas
Across multiple government and research tallies, the Trump administration oversaw roughly 1.4–1.6 million “deportation” events (a sweep of removals, returns and expulsions) over its first four years i...
The claim that "Bush deported 10 million illegals" is both true and misleading depending on how "deportations" are counted: several reputable analyses report roughly 10–10.3 million total deportation ...
Barack Obama’s administrations oversaw more formal removals (often called “deportations” in public debate) than earlier presidencies on an annual and per‑year basis, producing a total that many resear...
built or replaced hundreds of miles of barriers and repeatedly attributed steep local drops in illegal crossings and increased seizures to those barriers, claiming effectiveness in channeling and dete...
DHS treats Title 42 “expulsions” as a distinct category of repatriation separate from removals and returns: expulsions were actions taken under a public‑health order (Title 42) and are tracked in DHS/...
Across modern presidents the headline totals depend heavily on what is counted: formal “removals” (deportations) versus voluntary “returns” or expulsions, and whether border expulsions under public-he...
demanded enforceable limits and oversight on agencies—most prominently judicial-warrant requirements for certain immigration arrests, clearer ID rules for agents, structural reforms to and , and even ...
Official counts of vary widely depending on the source and the period counted: press releases tout totals in the hundreds of thousands (ranging from roughly 139,000 early in his term to reports claimi...
A preponderance of public -based tallies and independent analyses conclude that oversaw more formal removals and returns than , with commonly cited totals putting Obama’s removals at roughly 3 million...
The generated swift, partisan narratives that repeatedly distorted a handful of the bill’s technical provisions — most notably claims about mandatory universal , automatic “open border” flows or mass ...
— the pandemic-era practice of rapidly turning away or flying out irregular border crossers without allowing — accounted for millions of the “repatriations” tallied during and therefore materially inf...
sharply narrows procedural safeguards: people usually have no right to counsel, no hearing before an immigration judge, and no ordinary appeal to the , which means typical paths for review are curtail...
Encounters are the official counts of migrants who meet U.S. officials at or between ports of entry and are the primary observable input for migration statistics; they do not by themselves measure tot...
The Clinton administration pursued a suite of enforcement-first policies and laws in the mid-1990s that materially expanded the federal deportation apparatus: increased funding and personnel for borde...