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Graphic Truth: Deportation Nation
Deportation numbers under US presidents 2000-2025.
Paige Fusco
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But as debates – and protests – over that policy rage on, the title of “deporter in chief” still rests, in fact, with another president, Democrat Barack Obama. He earned that epithet by removing some 3 million people during his time in office, the largest number of any president. With Trump aiming to surpass that, here’s a look at the number of deportations by year, and administration, over the past quarter century.
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