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