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Deportation counts during President Trump's first year in office in 2025, with conflicting claims and figures ranging from different sources
Available reporting does not point to a single, undisputed total, but the best-supported summary of published data indicates roughly 1.2 million people were removed under formal removal orders during ...
Government tallies and independent reporting give very different answers to what share of people deported under President Trump’s mass-enforcement campaign were “criminals”: DHS and ICE public stateme...
Official and independent tallies diverge, but the best reading of public reporting is that deportations (formal removals) in the Trump administration’s second term and calendar/fiscal year 2025 number...
Official counts and independent trackers disagree, but available reporting shows two different answers depending on which “Trump era” is meant: Migration Policy Institute places deportations in Trump’...
Donald Trump’s first term oversaw roughly 1.5 million deportations across 2017–2020 when counting removals and returns together, a level that earned him the “deporter‑in‑chief” label but that is compl...
The simplest, widely cited tally is that about 1.5 million people were removed (deported or returned) during Donald Trump’s first four‑year term (2017–2020), a total used by migration experts to compa...
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...
The arc of U.S. deportation priorities shifted from a narrower, tiered enforcement model under Obama that emphasized criminals and recent border crossers to a broader, more permissive enforcement post...