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First, thank you to those that contributed with their funding and resources. Thank you to
the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy for the generous grant which allowed me to spend
more time focused on my research in graduate school. Also, thank you to Susan Long from
the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse for access to restricted data on court filings
through the TRAC Fellows program.
To supplement the analysis on the causes of establishment audits, I use restricted access data
on the number of removals filed by ICE, from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse
(TRAC) to estimate the relationship between the number of undocumented people found in
establishment audits and the number of removals filed by ICE. I find that an increase in the
number of undocumented individuals found in establishment audits in a county increases the
number of court filings for deportations in that county. However, the relationship weakens
after the the introduction of Secure Communities. This suggests that ICE is relying on
establishment audits less as a tool to find undocumented individuals.
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