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Deportation totals and methods during the Obama administration
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...
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...
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...