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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...
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; ...
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...
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 ...
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 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 ...