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A program that attempted to refine local cooperation and was influenced by the Morton memos.
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...
There is no single, authoritative figure in the supplied reporting that states how many undocumented immigrants "came into the country" during George W. Bush’s two terms (2001–2008); public claims var...
presided over some of the highest formal removals (“deportations”) in recent history — including a peak of roughly 438,421 removals in FY2013 and more than 2 million removals in his first terms by som...
ICE and DHS treat “criminal alien” as an administrative category describing noncitizens who are removable because of criminal convictions or who are judged to pose public‑safety risks, a label used op...
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...
A clear, year-by-year list of ICE’s annual budgets from 2009 through 2017 is not provided in the documents supplied; the available reporting supplies only scattered data points and trend summaries rat...
Secure Communities (S‑Comm) and the Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) shared a technical backbone— fingerprint-sharing that alerted / to arrestees’ immigration status—but diverged in stated prioritie...
moved immigration enforcement from broad-based workplace and mass raids toward a triage model that formally prioritized national-security threats, convicted criminals and recent border crossers, and i...
The anti-deportation protests during the Obama years were driven less by a single policy than by a cluster of enforcement decisions and outcomes: a surge in removals that activists called “record depo...
Under Obama, formal removals were high overall and enforcement was reoriented toward convicted criminals and recent border crossers, producing large deportation totals while also prompting targeted re...
did carry out interior immigration enforcement that included arrests at homes and other in-person encounters, but it did not adopt a formal, nationwide “” or indiscriminate program analogous to police...
did change deportation practices after his 2012 re-election: his administration shifted from the high-volume removals that culminated in a 2012 peak toward executive actions that limited who would be ...
The were a set of 2011 internal memoranda from Director John Morton that formalized prosecutorial discretion and new for apprehension, detention, and removal—telling ICE personnel to prioritize threat...
detainers are administrative requests that ask local jails to hold people beyond their release time so federal authorities can take custody, while §287(g) agreements deputize state or local officers t...
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...
Local jails act as the primary conduit through which federal immigration enforcement identifies and seizes people for removal—often using information systems and agreements that can be error-prone and...
The wrongful deportation of U.S. citizens during the Obama years flowed less from a single malicious directive than from a cluster of policies and systems that prioritized speed, data‑sharing, and pro...
The dominant groups affected by U.S. removals have shifted across administrations: under Obama removals peaked in volume and disproportionately affected long-term migrants including Mexicans and Centr...
DHS distinguishes "removals" — compulsory departures based on an order of removal with administrative consequences — from "returns" — confirmed movements out of the United States not based on an order...
Due process rights apply to everyone on U.S. soil, but how those rights play out depends on whether a person is handled by federal immigration authorities (ICE) or by state and local police: ICE opera...