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The deportation policies and priorities during the Obama administration, including the focus on national-security threats and serious criminal convictions.
The most consequential differences between ICE removals under Barack Obama and Donald Trump were not only raw counts but priorities, prosecutorial discretion, and tactics: Obama tightened priorities a...
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...
During Barack Obama’s presidency the federal government continued to pour substantial resources into immigration enforcement, with ICE’s enforcement programs receiving billions annually and specific e...
A straight numeric comparison is messy: on raw deportation counts, Obama’s administrations removed more people overall, a fact reported by multiple data analyses , but the Trump administrations change...
Enforcement priorities have swung between constrained, risk‑based targeting under Obama; an across‑the‑board expansion under Trump that made most undocumented people subject to arrest and removal; and...
During the Obama presidency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) drove who would be targeted, detained, and placed into removal channels through enforcement priorities and operational programs, ...
The arc of U.S. deportation priorities shifted from a narrower, tiered enforcement model under Obama that emphasized criminals and recent border crossers to a broader, more permissive enforcement post...