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The distinction between returns and removals in US deportation policy, including the legal consequences and administrative processes involved.
The question has no single numeric answer because "" can mean different things: CBP/Border Patrol , people released into to await proceedings, formal admissions, /expulsions, or the net change in the ...
is governed by constitutional principles that extend due process protections to “persons” on U.S. soil, but statutory exceptions and administrative procedures mean some people are removed without a fu...
Donald Trump’s first presidential term oversaw hundreds of thousands of formal removals (deportations) from the United States each year, with publicly reported annual totals ranging from roughly 225,0...
The Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” directive led to the systematic criminal prosecution of most illegal border crossings, which produced thousands of family separations and a public-policy cr...
’s two-term administration conducted roughly 2.75 million formal () from the — a figure that counts removals but excludes administrative “returns” or expulsions at the border, according to a detailed ...
treats "returns" and "removals" as distinct forms of repatriation: returns are departures not based on a formal removal order and carry no administrative penalties, while removals are compulsory depar...
There are well‑documented instances in history where deportation and removal were used for , but the evidence in the provided reporting shows those campaigns overwhelmingly targeted non‑citizens and r...
There is no single, documented tally in the reporting provided that answers “how many presidents allowed self‑deportation”; self‑deportation and voluntary departure have been recurring tools across mu...
During the Obama administration, deportations were a mix of convicted criminals and noncriminals, with the government stressing a shift toward prioritizing “felons, not families” even as large volumes...