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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...
’s presidency the federal immigration enforcement posture shifted away from the spectacle of large, helicopter‑style workplace raids toward targeted operations, employer prosecutions and administrativ...
did not conduct a single, sudden "" sweep of millions under , but the administration did oversee historically high numbers of removals and used broad enforcement programs and priorities that critics c...
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...
Yes — by most commonly used counts of “removals” during ’s two terms, roughly , though that figure depends on what the tally counts and how agencies label “removals” versus “returns” or “repatriations...
shifted immigration enforcement from broad, voluntary “returns” and workplace raids toward a system that produced higher formal removals, concentrated on people with criminal records and recent border...
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 ...
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...
shifted from broad, workplace- and mass-raid tactics toward a formalized, prioritized enforcement strategy that emphasized criminals and recent border crossers while expanding prosecutorial discretion...
Protests over deportations during were large, sustained and often driven by frustration that removal numbers were historically high even as enforcement priorities shifted toward criminals and recent b...
The short answer is: operations did take place "in the middle of the night," most notably a multi-state round-up of recently arrived families in early January 2016 during which agents reportedly remov...
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...
The answer depends on which metric is used: border and enforcement “encounters,” releases/paroles, or researchers’ estimates of the resident unauthorized population — and those measures diverge sharpl...
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...
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...
did change deportation practices after his 2012 re-election: his administration shifted from the high-volume removals that culminated in a 2012 peak toward executive actions that limited who would be ...
’s administrations oversaw historically high removal numbers—commonly cited as more than 2 million removals during his two terms, with a fiscal-year peak in 2013—while officially reframing enforcement...
produced a set of internal policies and program shifts intended to reduce wrongful or low‑priority deportations—chiefly memos (2010–2011), the shift from to the in 2014, and ‑wide guidance to narrow e...
of immigration enforcement has oscillated between technocratic reporting and spectacle, with outlets portraying -era actions as targeted law enforcement while later administrations—especially —saw hig...