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Deportation definitions

The debate over the definitions of removals and deportations, and how they are counted by the Department of Homeland Security.

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Jan 28, 2026
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How many immigrants where deported by trump

Official and public estimates of how many immigrants were deported during ’s most recent presidency vary widely: the and statements tout figures in the hundreds of thousands — including specific talli...

Jan 15, 2026
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Deportation rates were higher under obama

By multiple commonly used metrics — annual removals, interior removals, and removals as a share of the estimated unauthorized population — deportation activity was higher during Barack Obama’s preside...

Feb 5, 2026

presidents sent back imagrants

presided over higher counts of formal removals than through much of the available record, a finding reported by multiple data reviews and analysts . That headline number, however, masks important diff...

Feb 3, 2026

How many undocumented immigrants were deported during each year of the Obama administration?

carried out roughly 2.75 million removals over its eight fiscal years in office, with annual removals peaking in the middle of his second term and declining as . Reporting from , and others documents ...

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