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Obama vs Bush deportation policies

Comparison of deportation policies between the Obama and Bush administrations, focusing on formal removals, priorities, and tactics.

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Jan 16, 2026
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ice removal comparison between trump and obahma

The most consequential differences between ICE removals under Barack Obama and Donald Trump were not only raw counts but priorities, prosecutorial discretion, and tactics: Obama tightened priorities a...

Feb 4, 2026

How do deportation figures under Trump compare to Obama and Biden administrations?

Across multiple data sets and news analyses, ’s administrations recorded higher cumulative in his two terms than ’s first term, while ’s recent years have produced very large totals largely driven by ...

Jan 29, 2026

What role did ICE play in deportations during the Obama and Trump administrations?

played a central operational role in carrying out deportations under both the Obama and , but the character of that role shifted: the emphasized formal removals and targeted even as it delivered histo...

Jan 24, 2026

How did changes in interior enforcement policies under Obama and Trump affect the composition (criminal vs. noncriminal) of deportations?

Interior- policy under increasingly prioritized migrants with criminal convictions and recent border crossers, resulting in removals weighted toward those groups, while consciously deprioritizing many...

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