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The Trump administration's deportation policy and its effects on individuals with or without criminal records.
No — multiple independent outlets and policy groups report that the administration’s deportation effort does not remove “only criminals”; while officials stress criminal removals, reporting shows sign...
Barack Obama presided over some of the highest counts of formal removals in recent U.S. history, surpassing the Trump administration in total deportations while also reshaping enforcement by prioritiz...
A wave of federal judges blocked or limited the Trump administration’s attempts to expand expedited removal and to fast-track deportations away from border contexts, finding statutory overreach and se...
No: the evidence in contemporary reporting shows the Trump administration publicly emphasizes deporting criminals but in practice is detaining and removing large numbers of people without criminal con...
Shifts in ICE policy across the Obama, Trump and Biden years produced measurable changes in who was detained, how often families were separated, and the composition and volume of removals: Obama narro...
Deportation counts over the past decade have not moved in a straight line but instead have oscillated with policies, capacity constraints and a pandemic-era exception: annual removals peaked in earlie...