Your fact-checks will appear here
The immigration policy and enforcement record of the Obama administration.
Sanctuary jurisdictions reacted to the Obama-era Secure Communities program by refusing to cooperate with ICE detainer requests, passing local and state limits on cooperation, pursuing legal and polit...
— documented cases show that immigration agents detained citizens during the years, but the evidence indicates these were not the stated policy objective and ; scholars and news organizations have com...
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...
’s immigration-enforcement mix — expanding early in his tenure while later narrowing priorities through the and deferred-action measures — both accelerated deportations and provoked local backlash tha...
Across historical datasets and recent reporting, Democratic presidents have presided over higher aggregate numbers of removals/returns than Republican presidents, but that headline masks crucial defin...
(S‑COMM), a fingerprint‑sharing program expanded under , materially increased interior immigration encounters and removals by automating referrals from local jails to and was a major driver of high re...
Advocacy groups, fact‑checkers summarizing academic work, and policy researchers converge around a large majority of removals during the years being “,” but they report different point estimates and u...
Public data and multiple analyses show that oversaw more formal removals/ during his eight years in office than did during his first term, but totals vary widely depending on whether “deportation” cou...
issued a sequence of enforcement memoranda—beginning with Director John Morton’s 2010–2011 prosecutorial-discretion memos and culminating in ’s November 20, 2014 DHS‑wide guidance—that redefined who w...
redirected enforcement away from some broad, dragnet practices and toward a prioritized, hierarchical model that emphasized removal of noncitizens with serious criminal convictions and threats to publ...
The Obama administration responded to protests and criticism about by recalibrating enforcement priorities, introducing Deferred Action protections for some groups, and changing operational tactics—mo...
-era pursued a mixed strategy that tightened officer safety and enforcement capacity while rhetorically and sometimes operationally trying to narrow enforcement priorities and preserve — a balancing a...