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Posted on 01/08/2026 9:39:11 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Did Obama really deport more people than Trump? On the surface, the answer is yes.
During his two terms in office from 2009 to 2017, Barack Obama’s administration oversaw roughly 2.7–3.2 million deportations (removals and returns), making him, by some measures, the president with the highest total deportations in modern US history.
Since Obama’s era included a higher share of border returns counted as deportations, his total figures appear higher even though the populations targeted were different.
Under Trump, enforcement has increasingly focused on interior arrests and removals but these often lag in official numbers due to legal backlogs and court challenges. For example, early data from Trump’s 2025 second term show that thousands of immigrants were being removed or deported each week but the overall pace still lagged behind the daily average during Obama’s peak years.
Obama’s deportations were often characterized by officials and mainstream media as enforcement targeted at criminals and new arrivals and frequently lacked dramatic images of raids that dominated coverage of Trump’s enforcement actions.
Trump’s approach, by contrast, has been highly publicized with dramatic raids, mass ICE operations and rhetoric emphasizing “cracking down” without exceptions, which fuels emotional reactions and media coverage.
In other words, the optics of enforcement, not just the figures, shape public perception.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...
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I do not believe the claim, but it’s because Obama received no resistance whatsoever. When prople complain it amplifies the issue.
Obama did about the same...in 8 years....
I shoulld add that the Democrats are pushing the resistance. They are completely to blame.
There are no border crossings with Trump. Thus Trump can't deport any of those.
Like everything else about Obama, his "Deporter-in-Chief" title is also fraudulent.
mean tweets or X’s now
Barky’s deportees were a lesson Biden should have learned. They were border crossing deportations. Stopped, held, sent back. Had The POTATOUS done the same we’d never be in this mess. Though Trump would likely not be POTUS.
Because Obama was clean, articulate, and black.
It doesn’t *feel* harsher.
It’s all how the media portrays it.
The Times of India is crap, BTW
Obama had the media behind him, whereas the media hate Trump. This alters the way they cover things. Thus, the media ignore Trump’s deportation of hundreds of hardened criminals while focusing on the family man who holds a regular job.
With the socialist gynocentric media, its who does something that decides whether or not they must spin it good or bad.
We have decades of evidence. Decades of examples just like this one.
If its a fellow leftist comrade, they bend over backwards to praise and justify/provide cover. If its a deemed enemy, nothing they do ever is good, the rule is to always find a way to make it negative because you can never praise an enemy or say they did something good.
My wealthy uncle is a life long moderate conservative but unfortunately an anti-Trumper because he only listens to legacy media and thinks all internet people are ‘kooks’. Whenever I discuss politics with him he always brings up the fact that Trump didn’t do much in his first term to build the wall and actually supported voting down a measure that would have decreased illegal immigration. Obviously the situation is a bit more nuanced than that but you have to take into account there’s still many voters out there brainwashed by the mainstream media. Sometimes it seems to me Trump is going more for optics rather than just quietly getting the job done and deporting all these damn illegals.
I know that’s not Trump’s style but it would behoove him to be a bit more clever in his public statements because many times he just opens himself up to be attacked by Dem talking points. The ONLY realistic way of getting rid of the majority of illegals is to punish both financially and criminally the people who employ these people. Anything less than that is just a waste of time and resources.
Well Trump is a showman and he sends messages through his actions. What provokes more reaction? ICE agents in basic police garb and wind breakers? Or ICE agents kitted out in military tactical gear?
Answer: hypocrisy.
100% true.
What's sad is how short memories are, and people forget little "details" like that even when they lead to completely different conclusions. And apparently, out of everyone posting in this thread so far, you and I are the only ones who remember that.
Because the press only reports it as a negative against Trump.
Wise up.
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