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A program that routed biometric data from local law enforcement into federal immigration systems.
During the Clinton years ICE’s predecessor systems and enforcement tools produced some of the highest deportation counts in modern history, and during the Obama administration ICE shifted toward “prio...
Public datasets and independent trackers show presided over substantially more removals than ’s first term: ’s TRAC counts roughly 3.1 million ICE removals across Obama’s eight years , while Trump’s f...
Public data and reporting differ on terminology and counting methods, but available sources show that -era “removals” and arrests under were measured in the hundreds of thousands per year and totaled ...
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...
that involved people with a criminal conviction was a majority but not an overwhelming one: government and independent analyses show roughly 59% of deportees in FY2013 had criminal convictions, while ...
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...
Official counting methods matter: on the narrow, formal “removals” metric used by DHS and cited by analysts, the Obama administration carried out roughly 2.7–3.0 million formal removals over eight yea...
grounded its removals on existing federal immigration statutes—primarily the Immigration and Nationality Act as enforced by —and on long-standing executive prosecutorial discretion that allowed the pr...
The clearest, source-backed figures in the provided reporting cover ICE’s total enacted budgets for FY2009 and FY2010: roughly $5.928 billion in FY2009 and about $5.741 billion in FY2010, consistent w...
used and to carry out large-scale interior removals and to operationalize , including chartered and commercial flights, while shifting enforcement priorities toward criminal convictions and national-s...
Only a small number of jurisdictions explicitly record alongside state criminal arrest and conviction records; academic reporting identifies as the only state that systematically tracks arrests and co...
Available public reporting shows that a large majority of ’s in recent years involved people with some kind of criminal history, but the datasets and public summaries do not allow a precise, defensibl...
(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...
’s administration carried out large numbers of by shifting enforcement from broad worksite raids toward a prioritized system that emphasized recent border crossers and people with criminal convictions...
case-level and public reporting show a clear shift in the mix of people arrested by the agency between the years and the era: Obama-era interior enforcement relied more on arrests of people with crimi...
The highest annual deportation totals under President Obama occurred in the early 2010s, with fiscal-year peaks around 2012 and 2013—DHS-era tallies show roughly 409,849 removals in FY2012 and a recor...
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...
Since the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in 2003, responsibility for immigration detention has moved into a distinct federal agency and evolved from a framework of national standards ...
A reliable starting point for statistics on ’s immigration policies is official reporting—especially the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics and DHS end-of-year releases—which compile removals, returns...