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The Obama administration operated under the same immigration statutes but did not pursue a broad, prosecutorial approach that made separations routine.
Official tallies and independent analyses disagree, but the best reading of available reporting is that has overseen deportations in its first year back in office, with precise totals varying by date,...
Immigrant‑rights groups argue that Obama‑era deportation practices eroded basic due‑process protections by expanding nonjudicial "summary" removals, accelerating proceedings, and detaining people in r...
The Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” directive led to the systematic criminal prosecution of most illegal border crossings, which produced thousands of family separations and a public-policy cr...
Immigrant-rights protests and advocacy during the Obama years helped create a political environment that elevated the plight of undocumented youth and pressured the administration to act after Congres...
The claim framed by the Factually link asks whether ICE arrests and deportations under the Clinton and Obama eras differ meaningfully from later administrations; reporting shows Obama-era policy narro...
Bill Clinton’s two-term record is often cited as the largest in raw “deportation” numbers, but that headline hides a crucial distinction: the vast majority of the movements recorded under Clinton were...
Under Obama, formal removals were high overall and enforcement was reoriented toward convicted criminals and recent border crossers, producing large deportation totals while also prompting targeted re...