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A program that replaced the Secure Communities program and limited the use of detainers to individuals who met certain priority criteria.
did not conduct a single, sudden "" sweep of millions under , but the administration did oversee historically high numbers of removals and used broad enforcement programs and priorities that critics c...
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...
The Obama administration never produced a single, formal legal definition of “sanctuary cities”; instead it moved federal practice away from blanket local collaboration with immigration detainers towa...
ICE’s visible uniform and face-covering practices were not a central, well-documented axis of policy differences between the Bush and Obama administrations; available reporting indicates that Obama-er...
did arrest unauthorized immigrants at worksites during the Obama years, but the administration ended the era of large-scale, spectacle workplace raids and shifted to targeted arrests, criminal prosecu...
’s immigration-enforcement mix — expanding early in his tenure while later narrowing priorities through the and deferred-action measures — both accelerated deportations and provoked local backlash tha...
The Obama administration shifted ICE enforcement away from the broad, catch‑all deportation practices of some predecessors toward a narrower focus on convicted criminals and recent border crossers, co...
The core difference between -era and -era enforcement was intent and scope: Obama narrowed interior removals by prioritizing serious criminals and recent border crossers and used prosecutorial discret...
The Obama administration both expanded and later reined in two key programs that tied local policing to federal immigration enforcement: Secure Communities was pushed widely into jurisdictions early i...
(S‑Comm) was a / biometric information‑sharing program that automatically routed arrestees’ fingerprints taken at local jails through to Homeland Security databases so ICE could identify removable non...
The Obama administration did not adopt a policy of broadly withholding federal funds from jurisdictions labeled “sanctuary” and continued to fund local governments through routine federal grant progra...
Between 2014 and 2018, formal guidance moved from a narrowly focused, category-based prioritization under the November 20, 2014 memo to a sweeping, department-level directive under the that broadened ...
presided over a major operational expansion of federal immigration enforcement programs that pushed activity into nearly every state—most notably through the rollout of and related initiatives—which s...
(PEP) under formally narrowed ’s target list to prioritize serious criminals and recent border crossers—shifting away from some broad interior enforcement tactics—while leaving many Bush-era tools and...
President Obama’s deportation policy rhetorically and procedurally prioritized removing people with criminal records — a shift his administration said produced a large increase in the removal of convi...
The Obama administration built internal oversight around agency-wide enforcement priorities, new inspection offices and modified detainer practice to channel limited DHS resources toward national-secu...
issued a sequence of enforcement memoranda—beginning with Director John Morton’s 2010–2011 prosecutorial-discretion memos and culminating in ’s November 20, 2014 DHS‑wide guidance—that redefined who w...
produced a set of internal policies and program shifts intended to reduce wrongful or low‑priority deportations—chiefly memos (2010–2011), the shift from to the in 2014, and ‑wide guidance to narrow e...
Secure Communities automated a long-standing practice—sending arrestees’ fingerprints to the FBI—so that fingerprints would also be checked against DHS immigration databases, dramatically increasing i...
During the Obama years, critics documented a large-scale interior enforcement apparatus that deported hundreds of thousands and produced numerous accounts of wrongful detentions and collateral arrests...