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The fact-check examines claims about the Obama administration's immigration policy, specifically the allegation of an 'Obama attack against illegals' and the associated number of people shot.
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 ...
No credible source in the provided reporting documents an event described as an “ against illegals” in which a specific number of people were shot; reporting instead documents a pattern of high-volume...
grounded its removals on existing federal immigration statutes—primarily the Immigration and Nationality Act as enforced by —and on long-standing executive prosecutorial discretion that allowed the pr...
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...
A direct comparison of “ice raids aggressiveness” under and shows policy continuity in capacity but a clear pivot in priorities and tactics: Obama emphasized targeted enforcement against prioritized c...
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 three administrations framed around competing priorities: set a hierarchical “public‑safety first” framework focused on serious criminals and national‑security risks (Morton/Johnson memos), dramat...
(2009–2017) shifted the practical operation of by concentrating enforcement on recent border crossers and criminal populations while codifying narrower interior priorities and expanding use of nonjudi...
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 built internal oversight around agency-wide enforcement priorities, new inspection offices and modified detainer practice to channel limited DHS resources toward national-secu...
Several -era executive directives created administrative or regulatory footprints that could not be erased overnight by a successor, because they spawned agency rulemaking, statutory-backed programs, ...
’s immigration approach combined robust enforcement with targeted priorities—emphasizing removal of criminals and system efficiencies—while rejecting a formal policy of large-scale parent-child separa...
’s administrations (fiscal years 2009–2016) carried out roughly 2.7 million —commonly reported as “deportations”—which works out to an average of about 343,700 removals per year; the program peaked wi...
’s emphasized targeted enforcement guided by prosecutorial discretion and formal priorities—focusing on national security threats, serious criminals, and recent border crossers—while also using execut...
The most significant enforcement between the and administrations was a move from narrowly defined, resource‑conserving priorities and exercised prosecutorial discretion under Obama to a broad, enforce...
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 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...