Examples of uses of the data

This page includes links to news articles and, soon, scholarly articles that use data posted by the Deportation Data Project to illustrate how the data can be used by journalists and scholars.

News articles

• How Trump Has Targeted New Groups for Deportation, by Ashley Wu and Albert Sun, New York Times, May 21, 2025.

• Addicted to ICE, by Rachel Adams-Heard, Polly Mosendz, and Fola Akinnibi, Bloomberg, May 12, 2025.

• The Rising Cost of ICE Flying Immigrants to Far-Flung Detention Centers, by Leon Yin, Elena Mejía, Rachel Adams-Heard, and Polly Mosendz, Bloomberg, May 1, 2025.

• ICE chief thinks deportation system should be run like Amazon Prime ‘but with human beings’, by Graig Graziosi, Independent, April 9, 2025.

• What the data really tells us about Trump’s deportation agenda, by Erica Hellerstein, El Tímpano, April 11, 2025.

• As deportations ramp up, immigrants increasingly fear Ice check-ins: ‘All bets are off’, by Maanvi Singh and Will Craft, The Guardian, April 6, 2025.

• Trump touted these ICE arrests. Half were already in prison., by Maria Sacchetti and Artur Galocha, Washington Post, April 3, 2025.

• ICE to release detainee who came to the U.S. to give his brother a kidney, by Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post, April 2, 2025.