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U.S. immigration enforcement policies

Comparison of immigration enforcement policies under Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations, including priorities, removals, and funding

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Jan 18, 2026
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Did Obama award Tom Holmes an award in 2015

Barack Obama did present a 2015 Presidential Rank Award to Thomas D. Homan — commonly referred to in press as Tom Homan — when Homan, then ICE’s Executive Associate Director for Enforcement and Remova...

Jan 17, 2026
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differences in trump current vs Obama deportation actions and tactics

The headline difference between the Obama and Trump eras is less about a single metric and more about priorities, legal mechanisms and public experience: Obama’s administrations oversaw larger totals ...

Jan 29, 2026
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How many US citizens died as a result of Obama's ICE raids?

The available reporting compiled here does not identify any confirmed cases where a citizen died "as a result of 's raids"; what the sources do document is that in ICE custody during the period of the...

Jan 18, 2026

How did the Obama administration's deportation policies impact immigrant communities and families?

The Obama administration combined record-high removal totals in its early years with a deliberate shift toward prioritizing recent border crossers and criminals over long-settled, noncriminal immigran...

Feb 6, 2026

How many people were killed while Obama deported immigrants

The question breaks into at least two measurable parts: people who died while in immigration custody during the years, and people who were killed after being deported and returned to dangerous countri...

Feb 5, 2026

presidents sent back imagrants

presided over higher counts of formal removals than through much of the available record, a finding reported by multiple data reviews and analysts . That headline number, however, masks important diff...

Jan 14, 2026

did President Obama "tear families appart"?

President Barack Obama did not implement a formal, systematic policy of separating migrant children from their parents the way the Trump administration’s 2018 “zero tolerance” prosecution policy did, ...