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The shift in enforcement priorities during the Obama administration, particularly the focus on interior removals versus border apprehensions.
The short answer: formal removals (what DHS labels “deportations”) during President Biden’s last full fiscal year are reported at roughly 271,000–272,000; when broader categories — expulsions, volunta...
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...
The claim framed by the Factually link asks whether ICE arrests and deportations under the Clinton and Obama eras differ meaningfully from later administrations; reporting shows Obama-era policy narro...
A direct, documentary answer to “ employees have been criminally convicted since 2000, according to federal court records?” cannot be produced from the materials provided: the sources in the search re...
A precise, year‑by‑year table that separates “CBP turn‑backs” (/expedited returns executed by ) from “ICE removals” (formal removals recorded by ) for each fiscal year of the presidency is not fully r...
Documented instances where immigration enforcement in courtrooms most commonly take the form of state and local governments suing agencies to block or compel , and of clashes in state courthouses over...
The , announced in November 2014, narrowed the circumstances under which would request that local jails hold or notify on people suspected of being removable, replacing the blunt I-247 detainer with n...
’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...
saw a shifting mix of deportation actions: early in his presidency interior removals were high—often over 200,000 a year—but over time a growing share of actions were border returns or removals tied t...
, identified in news reports as , was detained by in , on or about 20 January 2026 and was later held with his father at a family detention facility in . The incident provoked immediate national outra...
Enforcement priorities and counting rules—not only the raw vigor of immigration enforcement—largely explain why vary between the , and eras: administrations differ on whether to emphasize interior arr...
A well-resourced federal immigration and investigative agency with broad authorities — embodied today by ’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and — is argued to be necessary to trace, disrupt, an...