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Enforcement priorities and local trust in government
Recent public analyses and ICE snapshots place the share of people in ICE custody who have convictions for violent crimes at roughly 5–7 percent, with several trackers finding “less than 5%” by late 2...
The institutional mission and internal structure of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been repeatedly reshaped by presidential priorities: created in 2003 to consolidate interior imm...
Official counting methods matter: on the narrow, formal “removals” metric used by DHS and cited by analysts, the Obama administration carried out roughly 2.7–3.0 million formal removals over eight yea...
The Obama administration shifted ICE enforcement away from the broad, catch‑all deportation practices of some predecessors toward a narrower focus on convicted criminals and recent border crossers, co...
During Barack Obama’s presidency immigration enforcement first rose to the highest annual levels of the modern era and then fell from that peak after new prioritization policies were adopted, producin...
Differing population figures coming from Homeland Security messaging and the U.S. Census — and the political use of those figures — reverberate through federal funding formulas, political representati...
Detention and enforcement "quotas" linked to ICE have evolved from explicit bed-space requirements and contractor commitments in federal budgets and contracts to politically driven arrest targets and ...
Barack Obama presided over some of the highest annual deportation totals in recent decades, including a peak year in 2013 of roughly 400,000 removals and an often‑cited cumulative total of about 3 mil...
The claim that “1.57 million and 1.49 million immigrants were removed [under Obama]” cannot be verified as stated within the provided reporting: DHS and independent analyses consistently show far larg...