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Comparing the number of deportations under different US Presidents, including Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush
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...
Using the federal government’s longstanding “deportation” accounting — which bundles formal removals with returns/expulsions at the border — Barack Obama’s administrations oversaw higher totals than r...
Across independent analyses and government records, oversaw more formal removals ("deportations" in common usage) than and did in single-term comparisons, but totals and rankings depend on how researc...