







ProPublica is tracking the historic rise in challenges filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal.
The propaganda loop
From A.I. to immigrant detention, propaganda is everywhere.

Deportation Data Project
The Deportation Data Project at UC Berkeley and UCLA uses public records litigation to obtain, post and analyze U.S. government immigration enforcement data.
Deportation Data Project
The Deportation Data Project obtains, posts, and analyzes internal U.S. government immigration enforcement data via public records litigation.
ICE Detention Trends | Vera Institute of Justice
Every year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) subjects hundreds of thousands of people to civil immigration detention—a practice that is unjust, inhumane, and completely unnecessary. It does so under a veil of secrecy, sharing only limited, often error-prone statistics with the public. ICE’s failure to regularly release accurate, complete, and accessible data to the public enables it to operate its multi-billion-dollar detention network with impunity and little oversight.

TRAC Immigration
The decrease from the levels five years ago in immigration prosecutions for these matters is shown more clearly in this figure. The vertical bars in Figure 1 represent the number of immigration prosecutions of this type recorded on a month-to-month basis. Where a prosecution was initially filed in U.S. Magistrate Court and then transferred to the U.S. District Court, the magistrate filing date was used since this provides an earlier indicator of actual trends.
What to Do if You Are Arrested or Detained by Immigration
A Know Your Rights resource with general information on what to do if you are stopped, arrested, or detained by immigration or other law enforcement.

Habeas Flight Watch: New tool helps track ICE flights to your city
Activists have been quietly piloting a live map of ICE flights to help immigration attorneys with habeas filings. Now they say it's ready for everyone to use.

By the numbers: the latest ICE and CBP data on arrests, detentions and deportations in the US
The Guardian has reviewed figures from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection since Trump’s inauguration

New Proceedings Filed in Immigration Court
Community Alert: Immigration Arrests at Airports
This resource provides travel safety tips and other resources for immigrants traveling through U.S. airports.

Are Rohingyas Refugees Or Illegal Immigrants? Can They Be Detained Indefinitely? Supreme Court To Consider
197 votes, 43 comments. Source…
Disappeared by ICE in L.A.: How to find detained relatives
Immigrant advocacy groups provide guidance on what you can do when a family member is detained by immigrant enforcement officials.
Immigration agents used racial slurs during LA sweeps, court records show
Records released as part of a lawsuit challenging racial profiling show that immigration agents used slurs to refer to Latino targets.

Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRAIRA), is a law enacted as division C of the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997 which made major changes to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). IIRAIRA's changes became effective on April 1, 1997.
Federal Immigration Agent Shootings
An aggregated dataset of shootings by agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.

Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.
