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Trump's administration pursued broader, more aggressive enforcement policies and rhetoric that emphasized mass removals and interior enforcement
raids under the second administration have been characterized by a faster, broader and more public enforcement posture — with higher arrest rates early on, a revival and expansion of high-profile work...
Deportation totals and the composition of those removed have shifted across the Obama, Trump and Biden presidencies: Biden’s administration has overseen high aggregate removals but a larger share have...
Policy changes under recent administrations reshuffled who targets and how removals are counted, producing sharp rhetorical contrasts but more modest net differences in many official series: -era enfo...
The Biden-era DHS memoranda of 2021–2022 reoriented enforcement toward case-by-case prioritization and prosecutorial discretion, instituting a 100‑day pause on many removals and consolidating guidance...
When compared apples-to-apples — isolating (deportations that originate from inside the , not border returns or expulsions) — the evidence shows a genuine shift in emphasis under the second administra...
under emphasized prioritization—focusing enforcement on convicted criminals and recent border crossers after 2014—while still overseeing large numbers of removals that generated controversy . Subseque...
Interior ICE removals and border expulsions have shifted in emphasis across the three administrations: the Obama years emphasized interior removals with a focus on criminal cases and broad deportation...