Did Obama deport more people at the start of his second term than Trump did during his?
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YES. The Obama administration oversaw more deportations in 2013 than the Trump administration did in 2025, though their methods were starkly different.
There were 612,706 total deportations in 2013, the first year of President Barack Obama's second term. Over the start of President Donald Trump's second term, his administration deported 540,000 people.
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