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Comparison of deportation policies and numbers between the Obama and Trump administrations
Barack Obama did present a 2015 Presidential Rank Award to Thomas D. Homan — commonly referred to in press as Tom Homan — when Homan, then ICE’s Executive Associate Director for Enforcement and Remova...
The count depends on the metric: using Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fiscal‑year data for formal removals (what many sources call “deportations”), the Obama administration oversaw more than 3 ...
Across multiple metrics, the Obama years saw higher aggregate removals and several annual peaks that exceed those recorded under President Trump, but the Trump administration changed enforcement prior...
Across multiple counts and definitions, Joe Biden’s administration has overseen removal totals that in raw aggregate exceed Donald Trump’s first-term totals and are comparable to or approaching Barack...
Available reporting shows the Obama-era removals were concentrated heavily on noncitizens with criminal convictions — rising from about 69 percent of removals in 2009 to roughly 94 percent by 2016 — w...
Barack Obama oversaw higher official removal totals than Donald Trump’s first term and, by multiple independent analyses of DHS data, was the largest deporter among recent presidents in raw numbers du...
The headline difference between the Obama and Trump eras is less about a single metric and more about priorities, legal mechanisms and public experience: Obama’s administrations oversaw larger totals ...
Across multiple government-derived tallies and independent trackers, Barack Obama’s administrations recorded higher totals of deportations/removals and returns than Donald Trump’s first term and the e...
a large majority of recorded "" were people intercepted at or near the — either returns or removals of recent crossers — with noting that by FY2016 roughly 85 percent of all removals and returns were ...
Anti-deportation protests during the Obama administration were sustained and varied in scale: local rallies often drew dozens to hundreds of participants, coordinated national actions produced scores ...
Public records and multiple independent fact-checks show that oversaw more formal (removals and returns) over his two terms than did during his time in office, though the comparison is complicated by ...
Using Department of Homeland Security definitions, available reporting and analysis show that interior removals (deportations of people living inside the United States) were substantially higher under...
By multiple datasets and journalistic analyses, administration oversaw substantially more recorded deportation "removals" over two terms than administration did in a single term: Obama’s eight-year to...
Across the three presidencies the story is one of shifting emphasis and of numbers that rise and fall depending on which agency is counted and which enforcement action is tallied: Obama oversaw very l...
Protests over deportations during were large, sustained and often driven by frustration that removal numbers were historically high even as enforcement priorities shifted toward criminals and recent b...
’s administration carried out far more removals across his two terms than the single-year figure for 2020 under ; fiscal‑year 2020 removals (about 185,884) were well below Obama‑era annual peaks and f...
Estimates and official counts show that the Obama administration oversaw higher annual removals at its peak and greater cumulative deportations across two terms than did President Trump’s first term, ...
A straight numeric comparison is messy: on raw deportation counts, Obama’s administrations removed more people overall, a fact reported by multiple data analyses , but the Trump administrations change...
The difference in public reaction to deportations under Barack Obama and Donald Trump reflects both policy choices and media dynamics: Obama’s administration removed larger numbers overall (reported v...
presided over higher counts of formal removals than through much of the available record, a finding reported by multiple data reviews and analysts . That headline number, however, masks important diff...