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The Trump administration's immigration enforcement strategy and its implications.
President Barack Obama’s administration carried out roughly between 2 million and 3 million formal removals (what most reporting calls “deportations”) over his two terms, with commonly cited tallies c...
Stephen Miller currently serves in the Trump White House as deputy chief of staff for policy and as the administration’s homeland security adviser, a role he assumed at the start of Trump’s second ter...
Migrant children were sometimes separated from parents during the Obama administration, but those separations were limited and not the product of a systematic “family separation” policy; the widesprea...
Measured purely by raw annual “removals” (formal deportation orders), several years of the Obama administration produced higher totals than any single year during the Trump administration’s first term...
Immigrant-advocacy groups criticized several Obama-era Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations and DHS enforcement policies for being indiscriminate, family‑tearing, or procedurally unfai...
Anti-deportation protests during the Obama administration were sustained and varied in scale: local rallies often drew dozens to hundreds of participants, coordinated national actions produced scores ...
President Barack Obama did not implement a systematic government policy to separate children from their parents at the border like the Trump administration’s 2018 “zero tolerance” prosecutions, but hi...
Barack Obama’s record on due process is mixed: he explicitly curtailed post-9/11 practices like CIA “enhanced interrogation” and promised to close Guantánamo and secret sites, steps proponents view as...
Obama-era ICE operated with formal enforcement priorities that concentrated resources on national-security threats, serious criminals and recent border crossers, and included layers of supervisory rev...
The Obama administration’s headline “deportation” totals came from a mixed set of categories—chiefly “removals” (formal, ordered expulsions) and various “returns” or non‑judicial departures—so media a...
The best available estimates put the number of people who joined the U.S. unauthorized population during Barack Obama’s two terms in the low millions, but the exact figure depends on the data source a...
Barack Obama’s use of executive orders and related unilateral actions drew sustained partisan accusation of "abuse of power," especially over immigration and regulatory initiatives . A review of the r...
Barack Obama’s immigration policy from 2009–2016 combined an unsuccessful push for comprehensive reform in Congress with a mix of expanded enforcement and selective executive relief: enforcement shift...
Barack Obama’s two terms oversaw deportation totals that rank as the highest in recent U.S. history, with public sources reporting roughly 2–3 million removals or deportations during 2009–2016, though...
The fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good occurred during a Jan. 7 immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis when an ICE agent, identified in reporting as Jonathan Ross, fired into Good’s SUV, le...
By multiple commonly used metrics — annual removals, interior removals, and removals as a share of the estimated unauthorized population — deportation activity was higher during Barack Obama’s preside...
The two administrations set markedly different enforcement priorities: the Obama administration formalized narrow, hierarchical priorities focused on serious criminals, national-security risks and rec...