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Obama Administration Deportations

The Obama administration's deportation policies and numbers, including the 'deporter-in-chief' label and comparisons to other presidencies

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Jan 15, 2026
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did obama use ice to deport illegals

President Barack Obama directed and used U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as the principal interior enforcement arm to remove unauthorized immigrants during his administration, producing...

Jan 12, 2026
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how many did obama deport without due process of law

There is no single, verifiable figure in the documents provided that counts “how many” people President Obama’s administration deported “without due process of law”; official and advocacy sources offe...

Jan 12, 2026
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How does the number of deaths during deportation under Obama compare to other administrations (Bush, Trump, Biden)?

A direct head‑to‑head tally of “deaths during deportation” by presidential administration is not available in the documents provided, so any definitive ranking is impossible from these sources alone; ...

Jan 19, 2026

How did the Obama administration define 'deportation' in their statistics?

The Obama administration’s headline “deportation” totals came from a mixed set of categories—chiefly “removals” (formal, ordered expulsions) and various “returns” or non‑judicial departures—so media a...

Jan 13, 2026

How did expedited removal use change year-to-year during the Obama administration (FY2009–FY2016) and which border policies drove those shifts?

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 ...

Jan 13, 2026

Numbef of deportations per year

Official U.S. government reporting and independent analysts show that "deportations" vary widely depending on how the term is defined—removals ordered by courts, voluntary returns at the border, and p...