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As Deportations Increase, U.S. Immigration Data Becomes Harder to Access
The Trump administration has halted updates to key immigration enforcement data since January 2025 amid a surge in deportations and inconsistent official figures.
- As the Trump administration pushes mass deportations, key immigration enforcement metrics remain unavailable, with the Department of Homeland Security's website not updated since early last year and its annual report unpublished as of mid-March.
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement launched an interactive dashboard in December 2023 touted as a "new era in transparency," but the latest data on the dashboard is from January 2025, leaving the tool stalled for over a year.
- DHS reported more than 675,000 deportations in a January 20 release, then revised that to 622,000 a day later, while Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testified on March 4 the count was 700,000; Mike Howell of the conservative Oversight Project said the numbers "purport to be statistics with no statistical backup."
- Researchers have turned to Freedom of Information Act lawsuits to access immigration data, with the University of California, Berkeley's Deportation Data Project suing to obtain ICE arrest records including nationalities and conviction status through legal action.
- The data gap has drawn rare bipartisan concern, as the Office of Homeland Security Statistics—tracking immigration since 1872—now faces restricted functions, leaving advocates without historical context needed to evaluate enforcement policies.
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President Donald Trump’s government likes to promote its immigration control agenda through figures, with ambitious targets of deporting a million people, reporting zero releases on the U.S.-Mexico border and arresting thousands of alleged gang members. Despite all the fanfare, the government has been spreading less reliable and more carefully filtered data than its predecessors on an emblematic policy that has become one of the most controversi…
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