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DHS records a peak Obama-era interior-and-border removal cluster

DACA 2012 is a neighbour forbearance for a different class, not a rebate of this yearbook. In the causal graph this event strengthens Migration-policy restrictiveness and border control, a driver that weakens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.

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DACA 2012 is a neighbour forbearance for a different class, not a rebate of this yearbook.

Context

Secure Communities and ICE ERO sat as operators. Neighbouring DACA is a 2012 forbearance child for childhood arrivals. He did not sit as every field office. Napolitano then Johnson ran DHS.

DACA 2012 is a neighbour forbearance. DAPA 2014 is a later attempt. Fast and Furious is a neighbour DOJ file.

A United States president proposes, signs, vetoes, and directs the executive. Congress enacts statutes. The Federal Reserve, states, courts, and later presidents share later series. Office-holding is not authorship of every later outcome. Allegation is not a completed judgment. Legislative achievements require shared congressional attribution. He does not set the federal funds rate, write a state Medicaid waiver by himself, or convert a 2009 oath into a unique 2016 uninsured coefficient. A signature is not unique authorship of a House and Senate text. A troop order is not authorship of every later round. He is not president as of 27 August 2026. Donald Trump is president from 20 January 2025. Joe Biden was president 2021–2025.

Why it matters

The path is migration-policy restrictiveness: a completed peak-removal print under his DHS.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Barack Obama

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.7 · verified

    ICE ERO removed. He owned DHS political direction. Courts still heard cases.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Reuters — Obama administration sets deportation recordReuters · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.DHS — Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, enforcement actionsU.S. Department of Homeland Security · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

DHS enforcement yearbooks for FY2012–FY2013 printed ICE removals near 400,000, a peak Obama-era cluster of interior and border returns.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

Established: FY2012–13 ICE removal peak near 400,000, independently reported from DHS yearbooks.

Not established: that every removal uniquely sat because of one Oval Office hour, or a unique later crime coefficient from those years.

He owned DHS political direction. Courts still heard cases.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies DHS records a peak Obama-era interior-and-border removal cluster, not a later speech about DHS records a peak Obama-era interior-and-border removal cluster.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to ICE ERO removed. He owned DHS political direction. Courts still heard cases. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorBarack Obama
  2. contributed toFactDHS records a peak Obama-era interior-and-border removal cluster
  3. strengthensDrivers (2)Migration-policy restrictiveness and border control
  4. weakensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). DHS records a peak Obama-era interior-and-border removal cluster. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/us-obama-deportations-2013

https://factrail.ai/facts/us-obama-deportations-2013

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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