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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...
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...
’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...
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...
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 ...