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Expulsions under Title 42 of the US immigration policy.
Across multiple government and research tallies, the Trump administration oversaw roughly 1.4–1.6 million “deportation” events (a sweep of removals, returns and expulsions) over its first four years i...
The clearest hard number in the provided reporting is that ICE recorded roughly 271,000–272,000 removals (deportations) in fiscal year (FY) 2024 (ICE/agency reporting summarized by TRAC and BBC) . Bro...
Across the Biden presidency, U.S. government sources and analysts consistently report millions of “encounters” at the border — not unique people — with totals ranging from roughly 9 million to more th...
Interior (non‑border) removals fell sharply under Biden compared with earlier years, even as total deportations and returns rose due to border processing and expulsions; shifts in prosecutorial priori...
A complete year‑by‑year table of "removals" for FY1993–FY2024 exists within DHS/ICE public datasets, but the exact numeric series must be pulled from the published DHS Office of Homeland Security Stat...
The Trump administration imposed a suite of hardline measures—most visibly the “zero‑tolerance” prosecutions, the wide use of Title 42 expulsions and the “Remain in Mexico” (MPP) program—that prioriti...
“Deportation” in public DHS and ICE reporting is not a single, simple tally but a family of overlapping categories — removals (also called deportations), returns/voluntary returns, expulsions/repatria...
Between 2020 and December 2025, U.S. removals and expulsions moved through three distinct phases—near‑shutdown of regular deportation channels during the pandemic and Title 42 expulsions (2020–2022), ...
The short answer depends on how “deported” is defined: by the conventional metric of formal removals recorded by DHS, Barack Obama oversaw the largest number in modern history (roughly three million f...
"Encounters" are administrative events recorded by Customs and Border Protection when someone is apprehended, found inadmissible at a port of entry, or expelled under special authorities; they do not ...
The short answer: there is no single undisputed number because “deportations” is used interchangeably with “removals,” “returns,” “expulsions,” and Title 42-era actions; depending on which measures ar...
Court rulings and Congressional law have been decisive brakes and drivers on Biden-era asylum and deportation policies: Congress’s 1990s-era Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) framework constrains ...
The DHS monthly tables count “encounters” as immigration events recorded primarily by CBP—an umbrella tally that includes Border Patrol apprehensions, Office of Field Operations inadmissibles at ports...
A precise, year-by-year tally of people “deported” during the Biden administration (calendar years 2021–2025) cannot be produced from the documents provided because sources mix fiscal-year totals, par...
The data landscape for removals/expulsions versus releases under the Biden administration is fragmented and metric-dependent: government and research organizations report millions of “encounters,” rou...
The question of how many deportations occurred under President Trump from 2017–2020 can be answered only approximately because U.S. government counts vary by definition (removals, expulsions, expedite...
DHS distinguishes “removals” (formal orders carrying administrative penalties) from “returns” (departures not pursuant to removal orders) and also counts expulsions under some authorities like Title 4...
DHS treats "repatriations" as an umbrella statistic that mixes several distinct administrative actions—formal removals, returns (administrative/voluntary departures and withdrawals), and Title 42 expu...
DHS treats Title 42 “expulsions” as a distinct category of repatriation separate from removals and returns: expulsions were actions taken under a public‑health order (Title 42) and are tracked in DHS/...
DHS “removals” are formal orders to deport an alien and carry legal and administrative consequences, whereas CBP “returns” (including enforcement returns) are departures without a removal order and ge...