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The Trump administration's changes to immigration and asylum policies, including the narrowing of protections for immigrants and refugees.
Available reporting does not point to a single, undisputed total, but the best-supported summary of published data indicates roughly 1.2 million people were removed under formal removal orders during ...
The Obama administration formally shifted removal policy toward a —primarily national-security threats, serious criminal convictions, and recent border crossers—through a series of memos beginning wit...
-era policies reduced lawful humanitarian admissions and made it harder for asylum seekers to obtain protection: the administration lowered to historic lows and presided over falling asylum grants and...
Major outlets shifted in tone, emphasis and sourcing when covering ICE from the Obama years to the Trump and post‑Trump eras: earlier reporting sometimes included cooperative, embedded segments that e...
Trump-era immigration enforcement was sweeping and sustained—hundreds of administrative actions reshaped asylum, removals, and legal admissions—but the effect on illegal immigration numbers is mixed: ...
The second Trump administration lists a series of policy wins its supporters frame as positive: sharper immigration enforcement and new detention laws, large legislative moves on taxes and spending, d...