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The Obama administration's immigration policy, including the Secure Communities program and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and its impact on removals and deportations.
The Obama administration implemented enforcement priorities and programs that both preserved some procedural protections and, according to multiple civil‑rights and labor groups, accelerated removals ...
President Barack Obama did not implement a systematic government policy to separate children from their parents at the border like the Trump administration’s 2018 “zero tolerance” prosecutions, but hi...
Deaths tied to Obama-era removals and deportation operations fell into two overlapping categories: violence suffered by deportees after being returned to dangerous places, and deaths that occurred whi...
The Obama administration combined high-profile executive actions with shifts in enforcement priorities between 2009–2016: it created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in 2012, announced a ...
The anti-deportation protests during the Obama years were driven less by a single policy than by a cluster of enforcement decisions and outcomes: a surge in removals that activists called “record depo...
The Obama administration shifted enforcement toward biometric-driven identification of criminal and recent entrants under Secure Communities and later PEP, while DACA created a protected class of long...
The Obama administration built internal oversight around agency-wide enforcement priorities, new inspection offices and modified detainer practice to channel limited DHS resources toward national-secu...