Deportation Data Project

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The Deportation Data Project obtains and analyzes U.S. government immigration enforcement data via public records litigation. Led by Berkeley Law & UCLA faculty, FOIA litigators deportationdata.org Support us: giving.ucla.edu/DeportationDataProject

With a year of data in, the results are clear: the marginal ICE arrest is NOT a criminal. You can barely even tell on the right side of these charts of arrests of convicts when an ICE operation starts and ends. The spikes for noncriminals are massive.

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The Trump administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 kids in seven months. We analyzed ICE records from January-August 2025 and found thousands of parents in the data. Families that have been broken up by the administration's mass deportation machine

Revealed: The Trump administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 kids in seven months

The Guardian analyzed ICE records from January-August 2025, as advocates say the family-separation crisis will lead to generational trauma

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Between 2025 and 2026, the number of people detained by ICE on any given day grew by nearly 60%. Thanks to Trump's deportation agenda, expanded immigration detention accounts for almost all of the growth in mass incarceration since last year.

Pie chart showing that almost 88,000 people are confined for immigration reasons in the U.S.

For decades, the US federal government has been one of the foremost producers of information in the world. But over the past year, the Trump administration has been altering and removing decades’ worth of datasets, with enormous impact on all aspects of life. 🧵

A map of the United States on top of a teal grid that has pieces of the grid/map being deleted into black negative space

We got our hands on internal ICE records that show how widespread use of force, like punches, kicks, takedown maneuvers, restraint holds, and less-lethal weapons such as Tasers and pepper spray in detention centers has grown wapo.st/4tdgBRA (1/)

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The Illinois Accountability Commission, formed by Gov. JB Pritzker, has released its report on Operation Midway Blitz. Led by a former chief federal judge, the commission found that federal agents "regularly used force against Illinoisans without justification": ilac.illinois.gov/content/dam/...

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Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The former chief federal judge who leads an Illinois accountability panel called Tuesday on the Cook County state's attorney to prosecute federal agents for misconduct during Operation Midway Blitz. @kwashburn.bsky.social reports: chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...