No. of Recommendations: 7
Okay. How did Obama manage to rack up record "deportation" numbers such that the LA Times called him "The deporter in chief". Maybe we could use his playbook.
You could. Deportations averaged about ~400K per year during Obama's second term, when he earned that sobriquet. Trump could get there, and indeed was close to it (~340K) during his first term before the pandemic, without denying anyone due process. Both numbers were goosed a little by expedited removal, turning people out of the country when they're apprehended at the border, rather than being arrested through internal enforcement efforts. But for the most part, they were just the result of pushing people through the immigration judicial system. They weren't denying people hearings they were entitled to, or trying to have those hearings in another country after deportation.
