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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a program for certain young undocumented immigrants.
grounded its removals on existing federal immigration statutes—primarily the Immigration and Nationality Act as enforced by —and on long-standing executive prosecutorial discretion that allowed the pr...
Estimates of ’s population without lawful immigration status cluster in the mid-five-figure range but vary by methodology: recent prominent estimates center around roughly people . Differences reflect...
moved immigration enforcement from broad-based workplace and mass raids toward a triage model that formally prioritized national-security threats, convicted criminals and recent border crossers, and i...
There is no single, documented tally in the reporting provided that answers “how many presidents allowed self‑deportation”; self‑deportation and voluntary departure have been recurring tools across mu...
Executive orders, presidential memoranda, and proclamations are all written instruments the president uses to direct government activity, but they differ largely in formality, required publication, an...
Under Obama, formal removals were high overall and enforcement was reoriented toward convicted criminals and recent border crossers, producing large deportation totals while also prompting targeted re...
A congressional amnesty statute that genuinely creates pathways to lawful permanent residence (LPR) must combine clear eligibility rules, interim legal status, a defined adjustment mechanism to green ...
treated ’s initiatives—most notably and the proposed and DACA expansion —as a contest over law, policy and political messaging: Republicans used hearings to assert executive overreach and to highlight...
The sources reviewed do not provide a direct, state-by-state breakdown of the share of who specifically hold temporary protections such as , or for , , and ; however, national and state-level reportin...
President Obama’s 2013 immigration proposal was framed as a four-part “commonsense” blueprint combining stronger enforcement, employer accountability, a pathway to earned citizenship for undocumented ...
During the Obama presidency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) drove who would be targeted, detained, and placed into removal channels through enforcement priorities and operational programs, ...