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The use of deferred-action programs by the Obama administration to protect certain populations from deportation.
Using the federal government’s longstanding “deportation” accounting — which bundles formal removals with returns/expulsions at the border — Barack Obama’s administrations oversaw higher totals than r...
Barack Obama’s administrations carried out roughly 2.7–3.0 million formal removals (“deportations”) over his two terms, and when returns (voluntary departures) are included some counts place the total...
Large, sustained did occur in response to administration: advocates, faith leaders and immigrant communities organized marches, and arrests to demand an end to what they called mass removals . These d...
The dominant groups affected by U.S. removals have shifted across administrations: under Obama removals peaked in volume and disproportionately affected long-term migrants including Mexicans and Centr...
A range of high-profile Obama administration actions were labeled unconstitutional by critics and some courts: most notably the 2012 “recess” appointments that the Supreme Court invalidated, and major...