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The Obama administration's policies on deportation, including the shift from 'returns' to formal removals and the prioritization of criminals and recent border crossers
President Barack Obama’s administration carried out roughly between 2 million and 3 million formal removals (what most reporting calls “deportations”) over his two terms, with commonly cited tallies c...
There is no single, authoritative figure in the provided reporting that isolates how many of the -era “deportations” were strictly turn‑backs at the border; the public sources show that statistics dis...
The administration deported large numbers of unauthorized immigrants while also creating formal enforcement priorities that focused removals on national-security risks, serious criminals, and recent b...
’s two-term period is reported to have the highest aggregate expulsions—about 12.3 million when combining removals and returns—while the administration recorded far fewer total deportation actions, co...
Counting the people who were expelled during presidency depends on definitions, but the best-supported totals put formal removals during his administration at roughly people, with a peak single-year r...
President Barack Obama’s administrations carried out roughly 3 million formal removals (deportation orders) between 2009 and 2016, but that headline masks a shifting mix: interior removals were especi...
(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 user seeks the annual totals of deportations during the Obama administration (fiscal years 2009–2016); available reporting documents a multi-year surge in removals but the provided sources do not ...
Controversy was a defining feature of during : the administration oversaw millions of removals and the expansion of programs such as while simultaneously instituting prosecutorial-discretion memos and...
A precise, year‑by‑year table that separates “CBP turn‑backs” (/expedited returns executed by ) from “ICE removals” (formal removals recorded by ) for each fiscal year of the presidency is not fully r...
saw a shifting mix of deportation actions: early in his presidency interior removals were high—often over 200,000 a year—but over time a growing share of actions were border returns or removals tied t...
There is no strong evidence in the provided reporting that uniform policies themselves were a major public controversy during the administration; the documented fights of that era centered on enforcem...
There is no authoritative government count of how many veterans without legal status were deported during the Obama administration because Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) did not report vete...
The Obama years saw a pronounced shift in where removals occurred: interior removals fell sharply while border removals stayed high and rose, so that by FY2016 most DHS removals originated at the bord...