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Obama-era Prioritization

The prioritization policies adopted by the Obama administration regarding interior enforcement.

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Jan 17, 2026
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How do interior ICE removals (not border returns) compare across Obama, Trump, and Biden by fiscal year?

Interior removals by ICE have risen and fallen across administrations, with the Obama years showing high interior removal totals in the early 2010s, Trump’s terms marked by sharp swings and politicize...

Jan 17, 2026
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What were the Obama-era ICE prioritization memos and how did they change interior enforcement outcomes?

The Obama-era ICE prioritization memos—chiefly the Morton memos of 2011 and Secretary Jeh Johnson’s DHS/ICE guidance culminating in the November 2014 Priority Enforcement Program (PEP)—sought to conce...

Feb 3, 2026

How many undocumented immigrants were deported during each year of the Obama administration?

carried out roughly 2.75 million removals over its eight fiscal years in office, with annual removals peaking in the middle of his second term and declining as . Reporting from , and others documents ...

Jan 27, 2026

Who deported more people obama or trump

deported more people during his two terms than has in either of his administrations, according to multiple analyses of / removal figures that count formal removals and returns — Obama oversaw the larg...

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