As Texas remains a frequent destination for migrants crossing the border into the United States, understanding the state’s immigration courts remains valuable to the news media and the public. New data from the Transactional Records Access Clearin...
As mandated by Congress, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is required to publish data on immigrant detention for the public. The agency releases this data as a spreadsheet about every two weeks on their website here. But don’t trust it ...
The number of people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has continued to decline over the last several weeks and currently sits at 21,566 detainees according to data released on Thursday (9/23/2021). This is down considerably fr...
ICE releases detention statistics on a bi-weekly basis. For the past year, we at TRAC have been systematically collecting that data to provide further insight into the immigration system. One immigration detention statistic that can be confusing ...
For politicians attempting to justify controversial positions, the phrase “the American people” as a justification has become as ubiquitous as it is devoid of a specific referent. But to give the illusion of an objective constituency with specific...
According to data released by ICE and processed and stored by TRAC, the number of people being held in civil immigrant detention centers appears to have leveled off after several weeks of growth. The most recent numbers show that about 25,000 peo...
Labor Day, which became a holiday in 1894, celebrates the dignity of every worker and the legacy of the worker movement in the United States. But for many workers who help keep America running but do not have a pathway to legal immigration status,...
Even though immigration policy tends to focus on the U.S.-Mexico border asylum, it may come as a surprise that one of the most difficult places to obtain asylum is at the Cleveland immigration court in Ohio, far from the Southern border. I looked...
Immigrants who have a deportation order on their record and enter the United States again can be charged with what is called unlawful reentry, technically known as 8 USC 1326. This week, a judge in Nevada ruled that due to the racist anti-Latino h...
The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and the sudden fall of the Afghan government to Taliban forces has renewed public debate about what the U.S. government should do to provide refuge for Afghan nationals who worked for the U.S. and fac...
The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and the sudden fall of the Afghan government to Taliban forces have renewed public debate about the role of the U.S. immigration system in allowing Afghan nationals to come to the United States and ho...
As a geographer, one of the things that’s important to me is putting the United States in a global context whenever I can. So when the U.S. Census Bureau released updated population figures for states today, I decided to revisit one of the most co...
The Department of Justice is currently investigating and prosecuting individuals involved in the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, or what the U.S. Attorneys Office in the District of Columbia is calling the Capitol Breach Cases. T...
Depending on who you are, your emotional response to talking about death and the migration system ranges somewhere between uncomfortable to re-traumatizing. If you belong somewhere on the “uncomfortable” side of the spectrum, I believe we have a r...
One of the QAnon conspiracy theories surrounding the Trump administration involved widely refuted claims that Democrats were running a child sex trafficking ring and that Donald Trump himself was working to disrupt this—a false belief that half of...
If you’re looking for up-to-date non-partisan immigration data, let me introduce you to our work at Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse—or TRAC—at Syracuse University. For the past 15 years, TRAC has been a valuable source of immigration d...
Conspiracy theories were a driving force behind right-wing violence at the Capitol last week. Here’s one conspiracy theory you might not have heard of. The term ‘conspiracy theory’ has worked its way into common discourse due mostly to our Snake ...
Yesterday, we at TRAC published a report on the number of prosecutions in federal court for key immigration-related charges. The three charges that I choose to look at are unlawful entry, unlawful reentry, and harboring. I would like to provide so...
In the final presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden on October 22, 2020, Trump claimed that when asylum seekers are allowed into the country for their hearings, “less than one percent of the people c...
Three in four Americans say that immigration is extremely important or very important in the 2020 election (Gallup poll). In the past few years, news outlets have reported on workplace immigration raids, family separation, exploitation among migra...
“Toledo: Stay safe! Border Patrol spotted on South and Broadway today!” Just days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 114 immigrant workers at a gardening center in Sandusky, Ohio, and 146 more at a meat plant in Salem,...
In FY 2019, more than 650,000 new removal proceedings were filed with immigration courts. The astonishing number of new cases in FY 2019 was the highest year on record by far, nearly doubling the number of new cases in FY 2018 (355,102), which was...
For journalists covering immigration enforcement, deportation statistics get all the attention. It’s understandable. Unlike most deportation data which is messy and jargon-ridden, deportation numbers feel concrete, even non-technical. One deportat...
We arrived in Dilley, Texas on a Sunday, all seven of us committed to working with refugees for a week at the South Texas Family Residential Facility. The name is a euphemism. It sounds like a boarding school, but critics argue that it has more i...
This review was originally published in The Canadian Geographer published by the Canadian Association of Geographers and is available here. Dominique Moran’s book, Carceral Geography: Spaces and Practices of Incarceration, is a significant contri...
Immigration judge appointments are political and the process appears to be more politicized every day. Even more political are appointments to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which oversees appeals and has the power to set precedent for hu...
Reposted from Society & Space. Edited by Austin Kocher, these essays hope to provide a useful snapshot of precisely the kinds of issues that are being raised by the Trump administration, while also understanding that the current context of im...
I’m glad to report that a series of essays that I organized and co-edited is now available online from Society & Space Open Site. Taken together, these essays provide a useful, timely, and very readable analysis of how immigration enforcement ...
Three in four Americans say that immigration is extremely important or very important in the 2020 election (Gallup poll). In the past few years, news outlets have reported on workplace immigration raids, family separation, exploitation among migra...
This review was originally published in The Canadian Geographer published by the Canadian Association of Geographers and is available here. Dominique Moran’s book, Carceral Geography: Spaces and Practices of Incarceration, is a significant contri...
This review was originally published in The Canadian Geographer published by the Canadian Association of Geographers and is available here. Dominique Moran’s book, Carceral Geography: Spaces and Practices of Incarceration, is a significant contri...
The Department of Justice is currently investigating and prosecuting individuals involved in the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, or what the U.S. Attorneys Office in the District of Columbia is calling the Capitol Breach Cases. T...
One of the QAnon conspiracy theories surrounding the Trump administration involved widely refuted claims that Democrats were running a child sex trafficking ring and that Donald Trump himself was working to disrupt this—a false belief that half of...
Reposted from Society & Space. Edited by Austin Kocher, these essays hope to provide a useful snapshot of precisely the kinds of issues that are being raised by the Trump administration, while also understanding that the current context of im...
I’m glad to report that a series of essays that I organized and co-edited is now available online from Society & Space Open Site. Taken together, these essays provide a useful, timely, and very readable analysis of how immigration enforcement ...
The Department of Justice is currently investigating and prosecuting individuals involved in the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, or what the U.S. Attorneys Office in the District of Columbia is calling the Capitol Breach Cases. T...
One of the QAnon conspiracy theories surrounding the Trump administration involved widely refuted claims that Democrats were running a child sex trafficking ring and that Donald Trump himself was working to disrupt this—a false belief that half of...
We arrived in Dilley, Texas on a Sunday, all seven of us committed to working with refugees for a week at the South Texas Family Residential Facility. The name is a euphemism. It sounds like a boarding school, but critics argue that it has more i...
If you’re looking for up-to-date non-partisan immigration data, let me introduce you to our work at Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse—or TRAC—at Syracuse University. For the past 15 years, TRAC has been a valuable source of immigration d...
In the final presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden on October 22, 2020, Trump claimed that when asylum seekers are allowed into the country for their hearings, “less than one percent of the people c...
“Toledo: Stay safe! Border Patrol spotted on South and Broadway today!” Just days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 114 immigrant workers at a gardening center in Sandusky, Ohio, and 146 more at a meat plant in Salem,...
In FY 2019, more than 650,000 new removal proceedings were filed with immigration courts. The astonishing number of new cases in FY 2019 was the highest year on record by far, nearly doubling the number of new cases in FY 2018 (355,102), which was...
For journalists covering immigration enforcement, deportation statistics get all the attention. It’s understandable. Unlike most deportation data which is messy and jargon-ridden, deportation numbers feel concrete, even non-technical. One deportat...
Immigration judge appointments are political and the process appears to be more politicized every day. Even more political are appointments to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which oversees appeals and has the power to set precedent for hu...
As a geographer, one of the things that’s important to me is putting the United States in a global context whenever I can. So when the U.S. Census Bureau released updated population figures for states today, I decided to revisit one of the most co...
If you’re looking for up-to-date non-partisan immigration data, let me introduce you to our work at Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse—or TRAC—at Syracuse University. For the past 15 years, TRAC has been a valuable source of immigration d...
In the final presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden on October 22, 2020, Trump claimed that when asylum seekers are allowed into the country for their hearings, “less than one percent of the people c...
“Toledo: Stay safe! Border Patrol spotted on South and Broadway today!” Just days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 114 immigrant workers at a gardening center in Sandusky, Ohio, and 146 more at a meat plant in Salem,...
In FY 2019, more than 650,000 new removal proceedings were filed with immigration courts. The astonishing number of new cases in FY 2019 was the highest year on record by far, nearly doubling the number of new cases in FY 2018 (355,102), which was...
For journalists covering immigration enforcement, deportation statistics get all the attention. It’s understandable. Unlike most deportation data which is messy and jargon-ridden, deportation numbers feel concrete, even non-technical. One deportat...
Immigration judge appointments are political and the process appears to be more politicized every day. Even more political are appointments to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which oversees appeals and has the power to set precedent for hu...
Depending on who you are, your emotional response to talking about death and the migration system ranges somewhere between uncomfortable to re-traumatizing. If you belong somewhere on the “uncomfortable” side of the spectrum, I believe we have a r...
If you’re looking for up-to-date non-partisan immigration data, let me introduce you to our work at Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse—or TRAC—at Syracuse University. For the past 15 years, TRAC has been a valuable source of immigration d...
Three in four Americans say that immigration is extremely important or very important in the 2020 election (Gallup poll). In the past few years, news outlets have reported on workplace immigration raids, family separation, exploitation among migra...
“Toledo: Stay safe! Border Patrol spotted on South and Broadway today!” Just days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 114 immigrant workers at a gardening center in Sandusky, Ohio, and 146 more at a meat plant in Salem,...
In FY 2019, more than 650,000 new removal proceedings were filed with immigration courts. The astonishing number of new cases in FY 2019 was the highest year on record by far, nearly doubling the number of new cases in FY 2018 (355,102), which was...
For journalists covering immigration enforcement, deportation statistics get all the attention. It’s understandable. Unlike most deportation data which is messy and jargon-ridden, deportation numbers feel concrete, even non-technical. One deportat...
Reposted from Society & Space. Edited by Austin Kocher, these essays hope to provide a useful snapshot of precisely the kinds of issues that are being raised by the Trump administration, while also understanding that the current context of im...
I’m glad to report that a series of essays that I organized and co-edited is now available online from Society & Space Open Site. Taken together, these essays provide a useful, timely, and very readable analysis of how immigration enforcement ...
Immigration judge appointments are political and the process appears to be more politicized every day. Even more political are appointments to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which oversees appeals and has the power to set precedent for hu...
Depending on who you are, your emotional response to talking about death and the migration system ranges somewhere between uncomfortable to re-traumatizing. If you belong somewhere on the “uncomfortable” side of the spectrum, I believe we have a r...
Conspiracy theories were a driving force behind right-wing violence at the Capitol last week. Here’s one conspiracy theory you might not have heard of. The term ‘conspiracy theory’ has worked its way into common discourse due mostly to our Snake ...
Three in four Americans say that immigration is extremely important or very important in the 2020 election (Gallup poll). In the past few years, news outlets have reported on workplace immigration raids, family separation, exploitation among migra...
Reposted from Society & Space. Edited by Austin Kocher, these essays hope to provide a useful snapshot of precisely the kinds of issues that are being raised by the Trump administration, while also understanding that the current context of im...
I’m glad to report that a series of essays that I organized and co-edited is now available online from Society & Space Open Site. Taken together, these essays provide a useful, timely, and very readable analysis of how immigration enforcement ...
This review was originally published in The Canadian Geographer published by the Canadian Association of Geographers and is available here. Dominique Moran’s book, Carceral Geography: Spaces and Practices of Incarceration, is a significant contri...
We arrived in Dilley, Texas on a Sunday, all seven of us committed to working with refugees for a week at the South Texas Family Residential Facility. The name is a euphemism. It sounds like a boarding school, but critics argue that it has more i...
Depending on who you are, your emotional response to talking about death and the migration system ranges somewhere between uncomfortable to re-traumatizing. If you belong somewhere on the “uncomfortable” side of the spectrum, I believe we have a r...
In the final presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden on October 22, 2020, Trump claimed that when asylum seekers are allowed into the country for their hearings, “less than one percent of the people c...
We arrived in Dilley, Texas on a Sunday, all seven of us committed to working with refugees for a week at the South Texas Family Residential Facility. The name is a euphemism. It sounds like a boarding school, but critics argue that it has more i...
