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Comparing the number of deportations during the Obama and Trump administrations, considering different definitions and data sources.
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...
The short answer: there is no single undisputed number because “deportations” is used interchangeably with “removals,” “returns,” “expulsions,” and Title 42-era actions; depending on which measures ar...
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...
A direct head‑to‑head tally of “deaths during deportation” by presidential administration is not available in the documents provided, so any definitive ranking is impossible from these sources alone; ...
Publicly available reporting and government analyses show that far more people were removed from the during than during , but none of the provided sources supply a reliable, comparable count specifica...
’s administration oversaw some of the highest numbers of formal removals ("deportations" credited to ) in modern U.S. history — peaking in the early 2010s with annual ICE removals above 400,000 in sin...
Most published datasets and contemporaneous reporting conclude that the oversaw larger aggregate than the , but the comparison depends heavily on which metric—formal removals, returns/turnbacks at the...
By the standard statistical measures reported by multiple data projects and news analyses, the Obama administration oversaw more deportations/removals and returns than the Trump administration did acr...
The Obama-era totals reported as the highest in recent U.S. history do include large numbers of “returns” and voluntary departures that are counted alongside formal removals in DHS statistics, which i...
Barack Obama oversaw far higher numbers of removals than Donald Trump in the periods covered by available DHS/ICE compilations, and independent fact-checking finds a large share of Obama-era removals ...
The answer depends on which statistic is used: officially recorded DHS "formal removals" during the Obama administration (fiscal years 2009–2016) total more than 3 million, while many policy analyses ...
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 ...
Public data and multiple analyses show that oversaw more formal removals/ during his eight years in office than did during his first term, but totals vary widely depending on whether “deportation” cou...
’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...