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Deportation policies under Obama and Trump

Comparison of deportation policies and practices under the Obama and Trump administrations, focusing on prioritization, removals, and targets.

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Jan 9, 2026
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How many people were killed by ice agents during Presedent obama’s term

Public records included in the provided reporting do not supply a definitive count of people who were directly killed by ICE agents during President Barack Obama’s two terms; the closest concrete figu...

Jan 17, 2026
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Which president deported the most people

The short answer depends on how “deported” is defined: by the conventional metric of formal removals recorded by DHS, Barack Obama oversaw the largest number in modern history (roughly three million f...

Jan 17, 2026
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How did deportation demographic breakdowns (criminal vs non-criminal) change across the Obama and Trump years?

Across the Obama years, deportation enforcement shifted to prioritize people with criminal convictions, producing a higher share of removals classified as “criminal” even as total removals rose; under...

Jan 22, 2026

Was Barack obama a criminal

The question " a criminal?" demands a binary legal answer and a fuller political and policy context; legally, there is no public record of criminal charges or convictions against Barack Obama, and jou...

Jan 9, 2026

How many total deportations occurred each year under the Obama administration?

The user seeks the annual totals of deportations during the Obama administration (fiscal years 2009–2016); available reporting documents a multi-year surge in removals but the provided sources do not ...

Feb 2, 2026

How did Obama's immigration strategy differ from Trump's?

’s emphasized targeted enforcement guided by prosecutorial discretion and formal priorities—focusing on national security threats, serious criminals, and recent border crossers—while also using execut...

Feb 2, 2026

Did Obama deport more people than Trump per year?

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...

Jan 13, 2026

Which president had a more aggressive deportation policy, Obama or Trump?

Barack Obama oversaw higher total removals during his presidency than Donald Trump, making him the leader in raw deportation numbers in recent decades ; however, Donald Trump’s enforcement policies we...