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Comparing deportation rates under Trump and Biden administrations, with potential social and economic impacts
Across the three presidencies the story is one of shifting emphasis and of numbers that rise and fall depending on which agency is counted and which enforcement action is tallied: Obama oversaw very l...
did change in 2021–2022 in ways that materially affected migration flows: it reversed and reintroduced elements of asylum controls, expanded the use of humanitarian parole and targeted parole processe...
Reductions in legal immigration under Trump contributed to a smaller foreign-born workforce and tightening labor supply in several industries, with researchers and policy groups linking those shifts t...
Bill Clinton’s two-term record is often cited as the largest in raw “deportation” numbers, but that headline hides a crucial distinction: the vast majority of the movements recorded under Clinton were...
When the same DHS-style definitions are applied — distinguishing formal “removals” from border “returns” or voluntary withdrawals — the Clinton years look qualitatively and quantitatively different fr...
The Biden administration oversaw a large number of deportations and returns—roughly 1.1 million removals and returns through February 2024 and record annual totals in FY2024—levels that in many metric...