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Prosecutorial discretion in deportation cases

The use of prosecutorial discretion in deportation cases under the Obama and Trump administrations

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Jan 26, 2026
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How did ICE enforcement priorities differ between the Obama and Trump administrations?

was policy design and scope: narrowed interior priorities toward national-security threats, serious criminals and recent border crossers and built in supervisory checks that reduced interior removals,...

Jan 22, 2026

What role did court orders and immigration judges play in deportations during the Obama years?

During , deportations were driven by a mixed system in which formal removals often required a court order but an expanding set of DHS-led "nonjudicial" removal mechanisms and prioritization memos shar...

Jan 13, 2026

Which president had a more aggressive deportation policy, Obama or Trump?

Barack Obama oversaw higher total removals during his presidency than Donald Trump, making him the leader in raw deportation numbers in recent decades ; however, Donald Trump’s enforcement policies we...

Jan 8, 2026

What criteria and priorities guided ICE deportations during the Obama administration?

The Obama administration structured ICE deportation policy around explicit enforcement priorities—primarily removing convicted criminals and recent border crossers—while acknowledging limited removal ...

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