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Obama-era deportation totals

Deportation totals and methods during the Obama administration

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Jan 15, 2026
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How did ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations perform under Thomas Homan during the Obama years?

Thomas (Tom) Homan served as ICE’s executive associate director for Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) beginning in 2013, building and running the agency’s criminal‑alien removal apparatus and e...

Jan 17, 2026
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how many illegal immigrants have been deported under Obama admin

Official counting methods matter: on the narrow, formal “removals” metric used by DHS and cited by analysts, the Obama administration carried out roughly 2.7–3.0 million formal removals over eight yea...

Jan 19, 2026
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How did the Obama administration define 'deportation' in their statistics?

The Obama administration’s headline “deportation” totals came from a mixed set of categories—chiefly “removals” (formal, ordered expulsions) and various “returns” or non‑judicial departures—so media a...

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