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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 difference between the and approaches to was one of priorities versus breadth: Obama narrowed internal enforcement through formal priorities and supervisory review, while Trump ...
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 the federal government continued to pour substantial resources into immigration enforcement, with ICE’s enforcement programs receiving billions annually and specific e...
The Obama administration formally shifted removal policy toward a —primarily national-security threats, serious criminal convictions, and recent border crossers—through a series of memos beginning wit...
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...
oversaw between roughly and 3.0 million formal “removals” or deportations during its two terms, but totals jump higher — into the multiple millions — if one counts returns, repatriations or other bord...
under both Presidents and deployed federal immigration enforcement capabilities built over decades, but the administrations instructed agents differently: narrower, reviewed priorities and targeted ar...
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...
Across recent administrations, enforcement priorities have alternated between narrower, crime- and threat-focused guidance and expansive, all-comers removal drives — but the underlying legal authoriti...
’s eight-year presidency coincided with one of the highest volumes of activity in recent history: official government figures and multiple independent analyses put formal during his administration at ...
The administration determined who was deported by adopting a tiered enforcement-priority system—crafted through internal memoranda and executive actions—that focused federal resources on national-secu...
did carry out interior immigration enforcement that included arrests at homes and other in-person encounters, but it did not adopt a formal, nationwide “” or indiscriminate program analogous to police...
formally prioritized removal of noncitizens who were national-security threats, recent border crossers, or those with criminal convictions or gang involvement—framed as “priorities” rather than a blan...
The core question — raids and interior immigration enforcement differ between the and administrations — has a complex answer: and formal deportations and shifted tactics toward targeted, non‑public wo...
's 2012 creation galvanized immigrant‑rights organizing by converting years of youth-led protest into a concrete policy win that boosted mobilization, legal support infrastructure, and civic engagemen...
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...