Putting TRAC to Work
  Legal and Scholarly
International Migration Review
2021

Immigration, Sanctuary Policies, and Public Safety
By Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, University of California, Merced, Thitima Puttitanun, Kasetsart University, and Mary Lopez, Occidental College


The data originate from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), which is a data-gathering, data-research, and data-distribution organization at Syracuse University. TRAC systematically requests these data from the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), a unit within the Department of Justice, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). We aggregate the number of detainers issued to each facility to form the number of detainers at the county level......[Citing TRAC data and research]


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