Did Obama Remove More Noncitizens From The U.S. Than Any Other President In U.S. History?

President Barack Obama gave an immigration policy speech in El Paso on May 10, 2011. 

(Image from White House video)

  Story by Sofia Sierra, February 13, 2025

Did President Obama remove more noncitizens from the U.S. than any other president in U.S history? 

Yes. Former President Barack Obama formally removed 3 million noncitizens from the U.S. over two terms – more than any other president in American history, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security.

In comparison, President George Bush removed about 870,000 people; Bill Clinton, about 2 million; and Donald Trump about 1.2 million people during his first term.

The DHS defines a removal as a formal court order expelling a person from inside the U.S. Obama does not hold the record for returns, a separate statistic addressing individuals turned away at the border prior to entering the U.S.

According to the Migration Policy Institute, immigration and enforcement policies and practices under the Obama administration focused on recent unauthorized border crossers and those who had committed crimes. When combining removals and returns, Clinton expelled about 12.3 million people, the most of any U.S. president overall. 

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This is short and to the point. Too bad Democrats would rather hate Trump than recognize our past, including what Democrats have done compared to what Trump is doing now. 

Of course, with Democrats fighting for Illegal Aliens who are violent criminals, one has to wonder if they have lost their sanity.  Trump has targeted the worst of the worst first. What's wrong with that? No one on the Left can answer that question because there's nothing wrong with what he's doing. Yes, especially since what he's doing by deporting and imprisoning criminals will make us safer. 

Tom Correa