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The Obama administration's use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to implement a mixed strategy for immigration enforcement, resulting in record removal totals and tension between policy aims and agency actions.
Interior (non‑border) removals fell sharply under Biden compared with earlier years, even as total deportations and returns rose due to border processing and expulsions; shifts in prosecutorial priori...
The federal agency known as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was created as part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reorganization after 9/11, not by President Barack Obama . T...
During the Obama years, ICE paired nationally declared enforcement priorities with programmatic tools—Secure Communities fingerprint-sharing, ICE detainers and targeted operations such as gang sweeps—...
Secure Communities (S‑Comm) centralized fingerprint-sharing between local jails, the FBI, and ICE and rapidly expanded under the Obama administration, producing large numbers of interior referrals and...
The Obama administration played a catalytic and contradictory role in shaping today’s sanctuary city landscape: its expansion and operation of federal data-sharing and enforcement programs contributed...
Obama-era ICE prioritization memos codified a constrained, risk-based approach that directed enforcement resources toward national-security threats, serious criminals, recent border crossers, and repe...
Yes — the Obama administration used and expanded U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as its principal interior immigration-enforcement agency, directing it to arrest, detain and remove nonc...