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.

Selected news articles and blog posts

• ‘Like Dogs in Here’ — Videos Expose ICE Lock-up Inside 26 Federal Plaza (archived), by Gwynne Hogan and Haidee Chu, The City, July 22, 2025

• ICE’s child catching in charts, by Robin Wigglesworth, Financial Times, July 17, 2025

• Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry, by Lucy Rodgers, Nassos Stylianou, Irene de la Torre Arenas, Jana Tauschinski, Sam Learner, Daniel Clark, Sam Joiner and Gaku Ito, Financial Times, July 15, 2025 

• ICE increasingly targets undocumented migrants with no criminal record (archived), by Emmanuel Martinez, Marianne LeVine and Álvaro Valiño, The Washington Post, July 3, 2025

• Sharpest growth in ICE detention population is among people with no criminal convictions (archived), by Jasmine Garsd, NPR, July 3, 2025

• Immigration crackdown ripples through economy (archived), by Emily Peck, Axios, July 2, 2025

• Trump vowed to deport the ‘worst of the worst’ — but new data shows a shift to also arresting non-criminals (archived), by Laura Romero, Armando Garcia and Frank Esposito, ABC News, July 1, 2025

• ICE detentions of non-criminal immigrants spike; about 8 % have violent convictions, analysis shows (archived), by Julia Ingram, CBS News, June 30, 2025

• ‘It’s a prison’: Asylum seekers in Houston detention centers face longer stays, no clear answers (archived), by Sam González Kelly and Ava Hu, Houston Chronicle, June 29, 2025

• ICE arrests have risen sharply in every state since Trump. Here are the numbers. (archived), by Albert Sun, The New York Times, June 27, 2025

• ICE set to arrest a record 35,000 immigrants in June; daily quotas are political – not practical (archived), by Austin Kocher, Substack, June 25, 2025

• A close look at ICE arrest data from the Deportation Data Project (archived), by Austin Kocher, Substack, June 25, 2025

• Most nabbed in L.A. raids were men with no criminal conviction, picked up off the street (archived), by Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, June 24, 2025

• How Trump has targeted new groups for deportation (archived), by Ashley Wu and Albert Sun, The New York Times, May 21, 2025

• Addicted to ICE (archived), 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 (archived), 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’ (archived), by Graig Graziosi, The Independent, April 9, 2025

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

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