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The use of Title 42 expulsions by the Department of Homeland Security from March 2020 to May 11, 2023, and its impact on repatriation metrics and asylum processing.
Counting how many people were deported under any given U.S. president is fraught: official statistics use different categories (removals, returns, expulsions, repatriations), data are reported by fisc...
Across multiple government and think‑tank counts, the number depends on what is being counted: strict “removals” (formal deportation orders) totaled roughly the mid‑hundreds of thousands in Biden’s la...
The short answer: formal removals (what DHS labels “deportations”) during President Biden’s last full fiscal year are reported at roughly 271,000–272,000; when broader categories — expulsions, volunta...
Official government "encounter" data show roughly at U.S. borders from the start of 2020 through mid-2024, but that figure is a count of events recorded by , not a headcount of unique people . Because...
Federal statistics treat “ removals,” “ expulsions,” and “s/Title 8 actions” as distinct categories that are collected and published by different offices and have different legal consequences: ICE rem...
treats "" as an umbrella that includes three distinct actions—removals, returns, and —with different legal consequences and counting rules; removals are formal, carry administrative (and sometimes cri...
expulsions — the -authorized public-health removals in force from March 2020 to May 11, 2023 — were folded into ’s , sharply raising the volume and changing the composition of repatriations during 202...
expulsions were a massive, event-based enforcement practice at the from March 21, 2020, to May 11, 2023, and estimates of how many expulsions occurred in that window vary by data source and counting m...
’s Yearbook-style reporting groups several distinct categories of returns to other countries under the umbrella of “repatriations,” distinguishing removals (which carry administrative penalties), retu...
Title 42 was a pandemic-era public health authority used to expel migrants at the U.S. land borders without asylum screening; the Biden administration maintained and then ended the practice in 2023, p...
The methodological distinction hinges on authority, procedure, and consequence: a DHS or ICE “removal” is the compulsory transfer of a noncitizen based on a final order of removal and carries administ...