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A program introduced by the Obama administration to focus on deporting undocumented immigrants who have committed serious crimes.
Using consistent definitions that count both formal removals and returns, (1993–2000) and (2001–2008) administrations recorded the largest annual averages—roughly 1.54 million and 1.29 million per yea...
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...
moved from a broad, numbers-driven deportation posture to a tiered, priority-based enforcement strategy that officially focused federal resources on national-security threats, serious criminal offende...
The Obama administration shifted from broad, volume-driven removals toward a tiered enforcement model that formally prioritized national-security threats, serious criminals, and recent border crossers...
Between 2009 and 2017, ICE relied on a suite of statutory authorities and administratively-run programs to identify, arrest, detain and remove noncitizens—most prominently Enforcement and Removal Oper...
Secure Communities fundamentally rewired how ICE identified potential deportees by automating fingerprint-sharing from local arrests to federal immigration databases starting in 2008–09, dramatically ...
Secure Communities was an automated biometrics-sharing program that routed fingerprints taken at local jails through the FBI to DHS databases so Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could identif...