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Comparison of deportation numbers between the Obama and Trump administrations, including the differences in counting methods and priorities.
Short answer: by most official-count and independent-analyst measures, more noncitizens were removed or repatriated during Barack Obama’s two terms than were deported during Donald Trump’s terms — but...
A straight numeric comparison is messy: on raw deportation counts, Obama’s administrations removed more people overall, a fact reported by multiple data analyses , but the Trump administrations change...
The Obama-era pattern of ICE removals peaked early and declined toward 2016: exact, publicly reported removal counts for specific years are compiled in DHS’s Yearbook tables, with selective figures sh...
presided over higher recorded than and (by most datasets used by ) higher annual removal rates than , but comparisons are complicated by shifting definitions—“removals” versus “returns/expulsions”—and...
Across multiple federal datasets and reporting, Barack Obama’s eight-year period (FY2009–FY2016) recorded roughly 3.1 million deportations (returns plus removals) with an especially high run of return...
Barack Obama presided over some of the highest annual deportation totals in recent decades, including a peak year in 2013 of roughly 400,000 removals and an often‑cited cumulative total of about 3 mil...
Aggregate figures reported by government and think‑tank sources generally show that Barack Obama’s two terms produced more formal removals than Donald Trump’s single term, with widely cited estimates ...