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Criticism and defense of President Obama's deportation policies and their impact on immigrant families
Yes — significant and sustained protests targeted ’s deportation policies throughout his presidency, from local marches and vigils to high-profile civil disobedience outside that produced mass arrests...
’s administrations detained large numbers of migrant families and expanded family-detention capacity beginning in 2014, resulting in mothers and children being held together in institutional facilitie...
Immigrant-advocacy groups criticized several Obama-era Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations and DHS enforcement policies for being indiscriminate, family‑tearing, or procedurally unfai...
The Obama administration combined record-high removal totals in its early years with a deliberate shift toward prioritizing recent border crossers and criminals over long-settled, noncriminal immigran...
During Barack Obama’s presidency immigration enforcement first rose to the highest annual levels of the modern era and then fell from that peak after new prioritization policies were adopted, producin...
Public sentiment about -era deportations cannot be cleanly summarized as broadly supportive or broadly hostile based on the provided reporting; the record shows intense public controversy, organized p...
presidency were driven less by a single flashpoint than by distinct fault lines: economic policy and the rise of , immigration enforcement and mass deportations, and police violence, and environmental...
No credible reporting or government data in the provided sources shows -born children (who are U.S. citizens by birth) being legally deported during the ; instead the documented phenomenon is the depo...