# Deportations Under US Presidents: Surprising Statistics **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [October 10, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deportations-under-us-presidents-surprising-statistics/1023849 "2025-10-10T15:22:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deportations-under-us-presidents-surprising-statistics/1023849/1 "2025-10-10T15:22:12Z")
I’m having a ‘discussion’ with someone on another board of a political nature when the subject of deportations came up. I, of course, brought up Trump’s use of masked ICE agents who were known to arrest and deport legal aliens. Then he posted a [link to this website](https://infographicsite.com/infographic/deportations-under-us-presidents-statistics/), where it details deportations under the last few presidents. Thinking he made some ground on me regarding Trump not being _that_ bad, he gloated a bit. And not that I follow deportations that closely, but the figures did surprise me. Of course, there are a lot illegal aliens in this country and I’m not opposed to sending them back. But they do deserve due process and to be treated humanely. And I think this is the difference. How do you interpret this graph as it pertains to Biden vs Trump? And how do you feel about their respective handling of deportations? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deportations-under-us-presidents-surprising-statistics/1023849/2 "2025-10-10T15:50:31Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Of course, there are a lot illegal aliens in this country and I’m not opposed to sending them back. But they do deserve due process and to be treated humanely. And I think this is the difference. That is exactly the point. It isn’t the deportations - it’s the elimination of constitutional guardrails by an authoritarian seeking to consolidate power and lay the groundwork for applying the degradation of due process on his political enemies. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deportations-under-us-presidents-surprising-statistics/1023849/3 "2025-10-10T16:04:49Z")
Thank you, very well said. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deportations-under-us-presidents-surprising-statistics/1023849/4 "2025-10-10T16:43:42Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Of course, there are a lot illegal aliens in this country and I’m not opposed to sending them back. But they do deserve due process and to be treated humanely. And I think this is the difference. Some who are being deported are those who were here claiming asylum and until their claim is heard by a court, they have the right to remain. So those people are not here illegally. Others who were being deported in the past few months included students and researchers at universities who spoke out about the situation in Palestine. Again, they had legal status in the country. The administration talks about deporting the “worst of the worst” but that’s only a small number of the undocumented and of those being deported. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deportations-under-us-presidents-surprising-statistics/1023849/5 "2025-10-10T16:54:50Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > That is exactly the point. It isn’t the deportations You know the old saying that it is better to have 1000 guilty people go free than 1 innocent man sent to prison? One citizen (or otherwise here legally) deported is too many. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deportations-under-us-presidents-surprising-statistics/1023849/6 "2025-10-10T17:21:45Z")
Be interesting to add Donald Trump 2nd term to the graph. ---
**Author:** ![jjakucyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@jjakucyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjakucyk)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deportations-under-us-presidents-surprising-statistics/1023849/7 "2025-10-10T17:47:52Z")
Even if the number is lower (pro-rated for the length of term so far, yadda yadda yadda), the problem is snatching random people off the street by unidentifiable masked men, and then whisking them to Louisiana and out of the country before they or their families have any chance to even talk to a judge about jurisdiction, due process, legal representation, etc. They also haven’t been going after the “worst of the worst” because those people are too scary for ICE. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deportations-under-us-presidents-surprising-statistics/1023849/8 "2025-10-10T18:14:47Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Be interesting to add Donald Trump 2nd term to the graph. My understanding is that Trump is averaging about 800 deportations daily. Or so I’ve read. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deportations-under-us-presidents-surprising-statistics/1023849/9 "2025-10-10T20:44:45Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > How do you interpret this graph as it pertains to Biden vs Trump? And how do you feel about their respective handling of deportations? I feel that it shows that Biden was able to deport more illegals than Trump despite rolling back most of the obscenely cruel stuff Trump did in his first term. Of course, all that was nothing compared to what’s currently happening, which is a dystopian dictator run amuck. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deportations-under-us-presidents-surprising-statistics/1023849/10 "2025-10-10T21:01:04Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > > [@AHunter3](#): > > > > Be interesting to add Donald Trump 2nd term to the graph. > > My understanding is that Trump is averaging about 800 deportations daily. Or so I’ve read. Wait, really? That can’t be right, can it? Is that figure measuring them the same way that the linked graph does? If so, it would imply that if he keeps up the pace of 800 deportations daily for all 4 years, he’d barely break a million deportations? I knew he wasn’t going as fast as the way he talks about deportations would imply, but that’s just actually pathetic, unless I’m missing something. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deportations-under-us-presidents-surprising-statistics/1023849/11 "2025-10-11T00:59:56Z")
I’ll see if I can re-find the article. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deportations-under-us-presidents-surprising-statistics/1023849/12 "2025-10-11T01:31:56Z")
Missed the edit window: > **[ICE on track for most deportations since Obama years, but still far short of...](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/ice-deportations-trump-six-months/)** > > ICE is on pace to record its most deportations since the Obama administration, internal government figures show. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deportations-under-us-presidents-surprising-statistics/1023849/13 "2025-10-11T01:45:02Z")
What percentage of attempted deportations are blocked? ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deportations-under-us-presidents-surprising-statistics/1023849/14 "2025-10-11T01:54:24Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Missed the edit window: OK, well, something **is** different about those figures then, because 1 million deportations on the other graph would not be “the most since the Obama years”. The article talks about “ICE deportations” so I assume the graph is looking at total deportations while the article is looking only at deportations done by ICE?