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The number of people deported without due process during President Obama's presidency, and the varying definitions and datasets used to measure this
deported millions of noncitizens during ’s two terms—official “removals” totals are commonly cited as roughly 2–3 million—but the number of U.S. citizens actually deported during the Obama era is not ...
The claim that “74% no due process immigration” refers to an average share of formal removals during 2009–2016 that were summary procedures (like and ) which do not involve a hearing before an immigra...
The best available estimates put the number of people who joined the U.S. unauthorized population during Barack Obama’s two terms in the low millions, but the exact figure depends on the data source a...
Barack Obama’s record on due process is mixed: he explicitly curtailed post-9/11 practices like CIA “enhanced interrogation” and promised to close Guantánamo and secret sites, steps proponents view as...
A reliable starting point for statistics on ’s immigration policies is official reporting—especially the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics and DHS end-of-year releases—which compile removals, returns...
The number of people deported during the presidency depends on which metric and dataset one uses: authoritative DHS-derived analyses and place formal removals at roughly 2.4 million through mid‑admini...
Barack Obama oversaw far higher numbers of removals than Donald Trump in the periods covered by available DHS/ICE compilations, and independent fact-checking finds a large share of Obama-era removals ...
Advocacy groups, fact‑checkers summarizing academic work, and policy researchers converge around a large majority of removals during the years being “,” but they report different point estimates and u...
There is no authoritative government count of how many veterans without legal status were deported during the Obama administration because Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) did not report vete...