Fact-check: “Under Obama how many people died under ice”
Verdict: Partly True (45% confidence)
Reputable sources cluster around two figures for deaths in ICE detention during Obama's two terms (2009–2017): 56 and 67. The lower figure (56) comes from FOIA-driven reporting; the higher (67) from broader aggregations of ICE data. Neither is an official government-published cumulative total — ICE never published a single authoritative Obama-era death count, and changes in reporting methodology (including how deaths after release or during hospitalization were counted) mean neither figure can…
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