Barack Obama was the president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. While he implemented the DACA program, he also greatly ramped up deportations, for which immigration activists often call him the “Deporter-in-Chief” (a play on “Commander-in-Chief”). Jose Antonio Vargas also covered Obama as a journalist during the 2008 presidential campaign.
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President Obama Character Timeline in Dear America
The timeline below shows where the character President Obama appears in Dear America. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 2, Chapter 11: Campaign 2008
...He was in a rush because he was covering the Democratic primary election between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and he had a tight deadline. Worrying that the sheriff would find...
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Part 2, Chapter 18: Who Am I?
The day after Vargas’s cover story, President Obama announced the DACA program, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which gave 850,000 young undocumented...
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Part 3, Chapter 7: The Machine
...formerly convicted of very minor offenses. They are often held in for-profit facilities, and the Obama administration has even put a minimum quota on the number of immigrants who must be...
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Part 3, Chapter 8: National Security Threat
...these children to the U.S. While the right-wing media blamed DACA for the “crisis,” President Obama refused to give the children refugee status.
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