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The process of quickly removing individuals from the United States without a full judicial process.
The Obama administration implemented enforcement priorities and programs that both preserved some procedural protections and, according to multiple civil‑rights and labor groups, accelerated removals ...
Immigrant‑rights groups argue that Obama‑era deportation practices eroded basic due‑process protections by expanding nonjudicial "summary" removals, accelerating proceedings, and detaining people in r...
“Deportation” in public DHS and ICE reporting is not a single, simple tally but a family of overlapping categories — removals (also called deportations), returns/voluntary returns, expulsions/repatria...
Federal statistics treat “ removals,” “ expulsions,” and “s/Title 8 actions” as distinct categories that are collected and published by different offices and have different legal consequences: ICE rem...
moved immigration enforcement from broad-based workplace and mass raids toward a triage model that formally prioritized national-security threats, convicted criminals and recent border crossers, and i...
Immigrant‑rights organizations documented family separation and non‑criminal deportations under the Obama administration through case investigations, interviews, litigation, and statistical analysis t...
Le chiffre souvent répété — «3,1 millions d’expulsions sous » — repose on compilation of removals and returns across the administration’s eight years, and is broadly supported by multiple analyses sho...
Independent analysts calculate “deportation” totals using different inputs, definitions and counting rules: the ACLU’s Deportation Data Project analyzes ICE administrative records obtained via FOIA an...
The highest volumes of deportations during the years concentrated not in a single city or county but in two overlapping geographies: border enforcement along the – southern frontier (driven by CBP app...
The (INA) authorizes removal of noncitizens on multiple non-criminal grounds, principally inadmissibility at entry or adjustment, immigration status violations (including unlawful presence and visa ov...
In fiscal year 2024 the Biden administration carried out a surge of removals and returns that many analysts describe as the highest since 2014, with agencies recording hundreds of thousands of expulsi...
Multiple court rulings and civil-rights filings document that during the Trump administration’s recent deportation drives some people were effectively denied a meaningful opportunity to present paperw...
ICE “removals” are formal deportations carried out under an order of removal—typically executed by ICE after an immigration judge or through streamlined expedited processes—whereas DHS “administrative...
A clear, apples-to-apples time series of ICE’s “interior removals” is not fully present in the documents provided, because ICE’s public statistics and third‑party datasets separate removals by process...
Title 42 transformed how encounters at the U.S.–Mexico border were processed and therefore how “removals” and “returns” were counted: by enabling near-immediate expulsions without standard Title 8 pro...