Decode the U.S. immigration system with clear analysis backed by data and designed for curious readers.
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Join me this Wednesday, August 19 at 2:00 PM Eastern on Substack Live for a conversation with Rep. Greg Landsman of Ohio about how ending TPS for Haitians is impacting our state.
Maisa Lopes Eliaser is home after five weeks in immigration detention.
Maisa Lopes Eliaser is home after weeks in ICE custody. Join me tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. Eastern for a press conference with her, Staff Sgt. Alexis Jaramillo, Danitza James, and Ashley DeAzevedo.
A new interactive tool from Relevant Research tracks the growing number of deaths inside ICE's civil immigrant detention system, with links to source material and downloadable data.
Welcome to the weekly segment called This Week by the {Immigration} Numbers.
ICE claims that they are going after “the worst of the worst” in order to protect public safety and national security—but that public message doesn’t match up with a new pair of articles by the Associated Press that documents 50 cases of spouses and parents of military families who are being deported right now.
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died at Delaney Hall in Newark, six weeks into ICE custody. He is the 23rd person to die in ICE detention this year and the second at Delaney Hall since it reopened under Trump.
ICYMI, the last numbers on: arrests at a record pace, asylum cases rerouted to judges, unaccompanied kids losing lawyers, more denaturalizations, enforcement deaths, and courts drawing new limits.
The Trump administration rolled out a new tactic to generate removal orders: piling well over 100 court cases on short notice into impossibly crowded single hearings.
New ICE data show more than 66,000 family-unit deportations since January 20, 2025, about one in ten removals, with an August spike above 20 percent, as family detention reopens at Dilley and Karnes.
Rebecca Galemba and her University of Denver students on observing and documenting detained immigration hearings at the Aurora ICE facility, and what the public rarely gets to see.
65,000 people are currently in ICE detention, but the full impact is much larger and most detained people are deported. 1.75M people could be detained by the end of the second Trump administration.
Latest immigration court data and qualitative research reveal much more about mega-masters hearings designed to generate large numbers of deportations and push courts to breaking point.
Adam Sawyer and I walk through the problem that Detention Reports solves, explain new features of the site, and emphasize the importance of getting data from trusted, reliable sources.
Welcome to the weekly segment called This Week by the {Immigration} Numbers! I’ll highlight some of the main takeaways from the week’s news that you might have missed, but do it in a unique way. Rather than try to summarize everything, I’ll pick a handful of figures each week that best capture where things are moving, explain why they matter, and provide a source where you can learn more. If you…
Relevant Research's DetentionReports.com project now updated with facility data through July, information on each facility's owner and operator, and 164 contracts across 78 facilities.
The National Immigration Law Center's Jennifer Ibañez Whitlock, Matthew Lopas, and Dr. Theresa Cheng on what hospitals and clinicians can do when immigration enforcement reaches the emergency room.
Watch now | Naureen Shah and Denise Bell discuss their new report documenting 1,200 immigration enforcement incidents across eight states: racial profiling, use of force, and the case to replace ICE.
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT — Professor Galemba and the DU Court Transparency Project observed 450 hearings at the Aurora ICE immigration court. Join us to discuss their findings.
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Join me Wednesday at noon ET with Naureen Shah and Denise Bell of the ACLU, authors of a bold new report on 1,200+ immigration enforcement incidents across eight states.
