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The Trump administration's policy of separating families at the border and its differences from the Obama administration's approach
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...
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...
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...
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...