Obama mainly deported people at the border, didn’t deport legal US citizens just because they looked brown, didn’t send federal agents to ambush immigrants trying to become legal through the official channels, didn’t send deportees to countries they weren’t even from in the first place, and most importantly he relied on due process.
And guess what, despite your attempt to rewrite history here, people still protested.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/immigration-advocates-rally-curb-deportations-n72796