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The Trump administration's immigration policy, including the approval of Rahmanullah Lakanwal's asylum application in 2025.
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...
The most consequential difference between the and approaches to was one of priorities versus breadth: Obama narrowed internal enforcement through formal priorities and supervisory review, while Trump ...
Between February 2021 and December 2024, carried out substantial interior enforcement—recording just over a half‑million interior arrests—but removals and detention practices under the showed both dec...
deported millions of noncitizens during ’s two terms—official “removals” totals are commonly cited as roughly 2–3 million—but the number of U.S. citizens actually deported during the Obama era is not ...
by and Border Patrol have a documented history across administrations, but the pattern and public visibility shifted sharply between the and presidencies: enforcement capacity while layering priority ...
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...
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...
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...
’s immigration-enforcement mix — expanding early in his tenure while later narrowing priorities through the and deferred-action measures — both accelerated deportations and provoked local backlash tha...
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...
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 ...
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...
was policy design and scope: narrowed interior priorities toward national-security threats, serious criminals and recent border crossers and built in supervisory checks that reduced interior removals,...
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...
Administrations have repeatedly reshaped the public story of by altering what gets counted, how counts are defined, and which tables are published — moves that can make enforcement look tougher, more ...
Federal immigration authorities, notably and related units, are the subject of vigorous calls for following deadly and controversial enforcement actions in and elsewhere, and watchdogs have documented...
fundamentally rewrote immigration practice through an aggressive, largely administrative campaign that touched border enforcement, , legal visas, , and student and campus policies, producing hundreds ...
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...