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The different methods of deportation, including formal removals, expedited border expulsions, and voluntary returns.
Official tallies and independent analyses disagree, but the best reading of available reporting is that has overseen deportations in its first year back in office, with precise totals varying by date,...
Official tallies and independent estimates for 2025 diverge sharply: the publicly claimed government operations produced more than 605,000 and roughly 1.9 million voluntary “self-deportations,” totali...
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’...
By multiple datasets and journalistic analyses, administration oversaw substantially more recorded deportation "removals" over two terms than administration did in a single term: Obama’s eight-year to...
Counting the people who were expelled during presidency depends on definitions, but the best-supported totals put formal removals during his administration at roughly people, with a peak single-year r...
’s two-term administration conducted roughly 2.75 million formal () from the — a figure that counts removals but excludes administrative “returns” or expulsions at the border, according to a detailed ...
The short answer: the provided reporting does not supply a reliable, specific count of how many children of, or children who were themselves, undocumented immigrants were deported during the administr...
The single highest annual total of formal deportations (officially recorded as "") in recent history occurred in fiscal year , when the recorded 438,421 removals — a peak widely reported and analyzed ...
The short answer is: there is no single undisputed “number of deportations under Biden” because agencies and reporters use different definitions and timeframes—official counts range from roughly 1.1 m...
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...
The simplest, widely cited totals put removals under between roughly 2.7 million and 3.1 million people over his two terms, but the exact figure depends on which dataset and definition of “deportation...
The total number of people says it has forced or persuaded to leave varies widely depending on how the agency counts "" versus voluntary departures: press releases claim between roughly 527,000 and mo...
Public data and multiple analyses show that oversaw more formal removals/ during his eight years in office than did during his first term, but totals vary widely depending on whether “deportation” cou...
across the available official and research datasets, oversaw higher annual removal totals than ; Obama’s eight-year removals averaged substantially above Trump’s annual removals in his four years, tho...
The and statements during 2024–2025 repeatedly touted massive deportation figures— and millions “”—claims that independent tallies and data watchdogs say are inflated or not comparable to historical r...
Official and media counts of deportations under President Trump’s second-term administration diverge widely: administration releases and DHS statements tout totals ranging from roughly 139,000 in the ...
Across President Obama’s fiscal years, total deportation figures—driven largely by “removals” rather than informal “returns”—showed a high sustained volume with shifts in how removals were carried out...
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 ...
Public counts of deportations differ sharply depending on definitions and timeframes: some sources count "removals" only, others add "returns" or Title 42 expulsions, producing totals that make Obama,...