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Migration from Central and South America has contributed to the growth of the undocumented immigrant population in the US.
The undocumented population in the United States by mid‑2023 was large and increasingly diverse: Mexico remained the single largest country of origin but its share has declined while Central and South...
Expedited removal became a larger and more central tool for removing noncitizens at or near U.S. borders during the Obama years even as total interior removals fell sharply; border removals rose from ...
Strong labor demand after the pandemic and shifting labor supply in together drove migration patterns from 2020–2024: a pull from plentiful U.S. low‑ and middle‑skill job openings and a push from demo...
The question breaks into at least two measurable parts: people who died while in immigration custody during the years, and people who were killed after being deported and returned to dangerous countri...
between 2016 and 2020 were driven by a mix of shifting push factors in sending countries, changing migration geography, and stronger enforcement and pandemic-era policies that interrupted flows — prod...
Regional drivers in Venezuela, Haiti, and Central America were major engines of the big swings in U.S. border encounters across administrations: Venezuelan political and economic collapse fueled a sha...
During the Obama administration the expansion of family detention in 2014–2016 prompted a cascade of legal challenges, court rulings that curtailed aspects of the policy, and sustained congressional p...
The Obama administration responded to reports of deportation-related deaths with a mix of procedural reforms, internal death reviews and public-facing policy adjustments while repeatedly facing critic...