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Obama-era immigration policies

The immigration policies and enforcement strategies used during the Obama administration.

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Jan 24, 2026
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Illegal aliens entering USA during Obamas presidency

and the under trended downward overall while the administration simultaneously increased formal removals and prioritized criminal and recent border crossers for deportation—moves that produced both re...

Jan 19, 2026
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Donald Trump is the first president in history to use ice to round up illegal immigrants Barack Obama rounded up illegal in my friends life Donald Trump totalingmore than 2 million

The claim that Donald Trump is the first U.S. president to use ICE to round up undocumented immigrants is incorrect: ICE enforcement predates Trump and large-scale removals were a hallmark of the Obam...

Jan 17, 2026
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did obama violate the consistitution

The question "Did Obama violate the Constitution?" cannot be answered with a single yes or no; federal courts and legal scholars found specific Obama-era actions unlawful or beyond statutory authority...

Jan 26, 2026

How many deaths in federal immigration custody during Clinton’s presidency

No reliable count of deaths "in federal immigration custody during ’s presidency" appears in the supplied reporting; the documents provided focus on deaths under (which was created after Clinton left ...

Jan 26, 2026

how do ice procedures differ now from the obama era

under the has shifted formal priorities and oversight closer to frameworks—prioritizing national-security and recent border crossers while de-emphasizing low-level misdemeanors—yet the operational pos...