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The immigration policy of the Trump administration, including restrictions and their impact.
activity and footprint today is larger in budget, visibility, and aggressive operations than in many prior presidencies, driven most recently by a second administration that expanded staffing and fund...
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 ...
Public datasets and independent trackers show presided over substantially more removals than ’s first term: ’s TRAC counts roughly 3.1 million ICE removals across Obama’s eight years , while Trump’s f...
The 50501 movement coalesced online in late 2024 and surfaced publicly as a coordinated protest network in early February 2025, with its first nationwide synchronized actions held on February 5, 2025 ...
Americans are divided about President Trump, but contemporary polling shows more people disapprove than approve of his performance overall and worry about his approach—especially on the economy, execu...
The Biden administration pursued a dual strategy: reversing many Trump-era restrictions and expanding humanitarian and legal channels while simultaneously confronting record numbers of encounters at t...
Border apprehensions and "encounters" under the second administration fell sharply compared with -era daily averages, according to and statements , while interior enforcement— arrests and detentions—r...
shifted from broad, workplace- and mass-raid tactics toward a formalized, prioritized enforcement strategy that emphasized criminals and recent border crossers while expanding prosecutorial discretion...
case-level and public reporting show a clear shift in the mix of people arrested by the agency between the years and the era: Obama-era interior enforcement relied more on arrests of people with crimi...
administration’s enforcement priority memos narrowed the operational compass for by restoring and formalizing prioritization rules that limited routine courthouse arrests and constrained routine coope...
Yes: reporting and public records show that citizens have been detained — and in at least some documented cases mistakenly deported — by during the , though the agency has no lawful authority to depor...
in FY2024 combined aggressive executive actions, new parole and asylum-processing programs, and regional enforcement diplomacy with to drive down recorded border encounters from the prior year and res...
The Trump “Gold Card” is an executive-branch, contribution-driven pathway that promises expedited immigrant visas in exchange for a large payment to the , while EB-5 is a long-standing, congressionall...
Yes — the phrase “deporter in chief” was widely used to describe by immigrant‑rights advocates and some critics, reflecting both the high volume of removals during his administration and sharp disagre...
Yes — but with important nuance: multiple national trackers and recent polls show a modest but detectable slide in ’s approval since late 2025, especially on and several issue areas, yet absolute leve...
Across recent administrations, enforcement priorities have alternated between narrower, crime- and threat-focused guidance and expansive, all-comers removal drives — but the underlying legal authoriti...
: multiple Christian leaders publicly endorsed ’s 2020 re‑election bid — a mix of high‑profile evangelical pastors and televangelists actively campaigned for him while broader white evangelical voters...
A single authoritative figure answering “how many took office” is not publicly available in the reviewed reporting; media and political claims point to several different totals—most prominently a clai...
’s emphasized targeted enforcement guided by prosecutorial discretion and formal priorities—focusing on national security threats, serious criminals, and recent border crossers—while also using execut...
has been an outspoken critic of several policies of ’s administration—especially on —framing those policies as inconsistent with . , who led the church in the late 19th century, could not comment on c...