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The Trump administration's policy of separating families at the border and its differences from the Obama administration's approach
The short answer: both presidents are implicated, but in different ways — the chain‑link enclosures widely labeled “cages” were built and used during the administration to hold unaccompanied migrant c...
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...
Official government records do not produce a neat, directly comparable tally of children “detained or separated” under Presidents Obama and Trump; independent fact-checkers and agency reports conclude...
The Obama administration significantly expanded family detention beginning in 2014, opening large family residential centers that held mothers and children together and converting sites with chain‑lin...
The record shows that authorities under all three administrations used fenced enclosures and detention facilities for children, but the administration’s “” policies produced a markedly larger, more vi...
The record compiled by human-rights groups, congressional investigators and major reporting shows that the -era “zero tolerance” family separation policy produced thousands of separations and that a n...
Thomas (Tom) Homan’s 2015 Presidential Rank Award drew sharply contrasting responses: the Department of Homeland Security and ICE framed it as recognition for "sustained extraordinary results" in depo...
Across the Obama years, deportation enforcement shifted to prioritize people with criminal convictions, producing a higher share of removals classified as “criminal” even as total removals rose; under...
Melania Trump’s parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, were sworn in as U.S. citizens in August 2018 after a standard path from lawful permanent residence to naturalization: they held green cards, met res...
’s immigration approach combined robust enforcement with targeted priorities—emphasizing removal of criminals and system efficiencies—while rejecting a formal policy of large-scale parent-child separa...
Major -era actions—most prominently the 2018 enforcement at the southern border and the 2017 on several majority-Muslim countries—were widely labeled by civil‑rights groups, scholars, Democratic lawma...
and have been central levers that shaped when and how parents and children were kept together or torn apart at the border: ’s long-standing requirement to fund detention capacity and successive admini...
The available reporting shows that the Trump administration’s enforcement-heavy approach coincided with dramatic declines in detected crossings and official “encounters,” which DHS and CBP characteriz...
Human-rights organizations have overwhelmingly condemned policies associated with Stephen Miller as cruel, unlawful, and destructive to asylum and family unity, especially targeting the family‑separat...
As of mid‑2021, federal tracking showed that at least 1,841 children who had been separated from their parents under the Trump‑era “zero tolerance” and related practices remained separated from their ...
Annual ICE removals have swung dramatically since 2010 in response to shifting enforcement priorities, resources, and legal tools, but the available reporting does not provide a clear, direct, quantit...