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The use of deferred-action programs by the Obama administration to protect certain populations from deportation.
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 Obama administration substantially expanded use of and other fast-track deportation tools, shifting the system away from pre-1996 courtroom-focused removals toward a largely nonjudicial process th...
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...
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...
carried forward and formalized elements of ’s executive approach to immigration—most notably the “family fairness” deferrals that protected spouses and children left out of the 1986 amnesty—yet his ac...
did change deportation practices after his 2012 re-election: his administration shifted from the high-volume removals that culminated in a 2012 peak toward executive actions that limited who would be ...
The Obama administration responded to protests and criticism about by recalibrating enforcement priorities, introducing Deferred Action protections for some groups, and changing operational tactics—mo...
moved from a broad, numbers-driven deportation posture to a tiered, priority-based enforcement strategy that officially focused federal resources on national-security threats, serious criminal offende...
treated “s” using the Department of Homeland Security’s operational categories—primarily distinguishing formal “removals” from administrative “returns” and an expanded use of expedited, non‑judicial r...
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...