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The COVID-19 pandemic's impact on deportation trends, including the use of public-health expulsions and Title 42
There is no single, authoritative count in the public record that answers “how many came to during ’s first presidency (2017–2021),” because the government does not publish a net inflow figure for peo...
(2017–2020) the administration sharply curtailed legal immigration—reducing green cards and non‑immigrant visas—and pursued that raised arrests but did not produce a sustained increase in removals com...
A clear long‑run decline in measured in —when measured on a person‑year basis—was documented from the mid‑2000s through the 2010s, but pandemic and post‑pandemic metrics using different denominators s...
The second Trump administration’s ramped-up immigration enforcement coincided with a sharp rise in deaths tied to custody and agent-involved shootings: , the agency’s deadliest year in more than two d...
Since 2019 the picture of shows two linked trends: a volatile detained population that plunged during the and then climbed sharply afterward, and a rise and fall — and most recently a sharp spike — in...
Asylum and immigration court backlogs ballooned during President Joe Biden’s tenure: immigration court pending cases rose from roughly 1.3 million at the start of his term to roughly 3.6–3.8 million b...
Federal data show an upward trend in formal removals from FY2017 through FY2019 followed by a sharp decline in FY2020 tied to the COVID-19 pandemic and policy changes at the border; official counts re...