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The Trump administration's claims about the number of deportations, including the removal of people with lawful immigration statuses, and the difficulty in verifying these claims due to a lack of detailed data.
Official administration tallies and independent trackers provide sharply different answers: the Department of Homeland Security and allied White House releases say the Trump administration has deporte...
Barack Obama is widely documented as having overseen the largest number of formal removals ("deportations") of noncitizens in modern U.S. history, a tally commonly cited at roughly three million over ...
Official tallies and independent trackers show large numbers of removals since returned to office, but available reporting does not provide a clean, verifiable count of ; the has publicly touted six‑h...
The total number of people says it has forced or persuaded to leave varies widely depending on how the agency counts "" versus voluntary departures: press releases claim between roughly 527,000 and mo...
President Joe Biden’s administration did carry out removals and returns of noncitizens—commonly described as “deportations”—throughout his term; U.S. government and independent analyses show more than...
Public tallies of deportations under President Trump vary widely because agencies, reporting projects and news outlets count different actions — "removals" by ICE, "enforcement returns" by CBP, volunt...
The Trump administration’s deportation footprint for its first term (fiscal years 2017–2020) is commonly reported as roughly 1.5 million removals and returns, but that headline masks important distinc...
The question of how many deportations have occurred under the current Trump administration does not have a single uncontested answer: official DHS messaging claims "more than 527,000 removals" includi...