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Deportation numbers during Clinton administration

The number of deportations during Bill Clinton's administration and how it compares to other presidents

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Jan 16, 2026
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How many immigrants were deported during Bill Clinton’s presidency by year?

The best publicly available year-by-year counts for formal deportations (DHS “removals”) during Bill Clinton’s presidency come from federal yearbook tallies: FY1993 — 42,469; FY1994 — 45,621; FY1995 —...

Jan 16, 2026
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number of deportations under clinton

Bill Clinton’s administrations (FY1993–FY2000) oversaw roughly 827,100 formal removals — the deportations based on an order of removal — according to Department of Homeland Security tallies cited by F...

Jan 22, 2026

How many ice were under Clinton’s administration in Obama since?

’s two-term period is reported to have the highest aggregate expulsions—about 12.3 million when combining removals and returns—while the administration recorded far fewer total deportation actions, co...

Jan 20, 2026

How do deportation/return totals under Clinton compare to Obama and Trump when using the same definitions?

When the same DHS-style definitions are applied — distinguishing formal “removals” from border “returns” or voluntary withdrawals — the Clinton years look qualitatively and quantitatively different fr...

Jan 13, 2026

How do removal totals under Clinton compare, year-by-year, to those under subsequent administrations?

Bill Clinton’s two-term record is often cited as the largest in raw “deportation” numbers, but that headline hides a crucial distinction: the vast majority of the movements recorded under Clinton were...