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Administrative relief measures provided by the Obama administration, affecting removal dynamics.
Across multiple counts and definitions, Joe Biden’s administration has overseen removal totals that in raw aggregate exceed Donald Trump’s first-term totals and are comparable to or approaching Barack...
Across multiple government-derived tallies and independent trackers, Barack Obama’s administrations recorded higher totals of deportations/removals and returns than Donald Trump’s first term and the e...
Across the Obama presidency, a very large share of formal removals were carried out through DHS administrative, out‑of‑court processes—primarily expedited removal and reinstatement of prior removal or...
The highest annual deportation totals under President Obama occurred in the early 2010s, with fiscal-year peaks around 2012 and 2013—DHS-era tallies show roughly 409,849 removals in FY2012 and a recor...
By the standard statistical measures reported by multiple data projects and news analyses, the Obama administration oversaw more deportations/removals and returns than the Trump administration did acr...
The claim that Donald Trump is the first U.S. president to use ICE to round up undocumented immigrants is incorrect: ICE enforcement predates Trump and large-scale removals were a hallmark of the Obam...