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Deportations rose under President Biden through FY2024, with a record number of removals in FY2024 and changes in enforcement strategy and policy
Joe Biden’s term has recorded the largest raw number of repatriations and returns when counting expulsions and administrative returns, but those totals reflect a different mix of “returns/expulsions” ...
Federal prosecutions under 8 U.S.C. §§1325 (illegal entry) and 1326 (illegal reentry) have shifted from a relatively constrained tool in the early 2000s to becoming the single largest category of fede...
Deportation totals and the composition of those removed have shifted across the Obama, Trump and Biden presidencies: Biden’s administration has overseen high aggregate removals but a larger share have...
oversaw roughly three million formal removals (deportations) over his two terms, a total widely cited in scholarly and media accounts . Comparisons across administrations require care because agencies...
From FY2017 through FY2019, the vast bulk of government‑counted deportation actions under the were formal removals and enforcement returns rather than expulsions, because the public‑health Title 42 au...
Policy changes under recent administrations reshuffled who targets and how removals are counted, producing sharp rhetorical contrasts but more modest net differences in many official series: -era enfo...
The Biden administration presided over a sharp shift toward border-focused repatriations—what many reports call expulsions or returns—resulting in millions of people turned back or repatriated during ...
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,...
Two intertwined streams—administrative policy shifts (prioritization, moratoria, expansions of expedited removal and asylum restrictions) and high-stakes court rulings over those policies—drove much o...