Putting TRAC to Work

Policy and Public Interest Groups
Immigration Impact -- A Shortage of Immigration Lawyers Is Another Barrier to Integration for Immigrants, January 31, 2024
Center for Immigration Studies -- TRAC Offers Explanation on Differing Asylum Approval Ratings TRAC Offers Explanation on Differing Asylum Approval Ratings, November 10, 2023
Center for Immigration Studies -- The 225-year-old ‘Alien Enemies Act’ Needs to Come Out of Retirement, October 10, 2023
American Bar Association -- Immigration Enforcement Mechanisms at the U.S. Border, October 2023
Migration Policy Institute -- New York and Other U.S. Cities Struggle with High Costs of Migrant Arrivals, September 27, 2023
Center for American Progress (CAP) -- Tackling the Opioid Crisis Requires a Whole-of-Government, Society-Wide Approach, September 20, 2023
Immigration Impact -- Enforcement Priorities Are Back. What Will ICE Prosecutors Do With Them?, August 9, 2023
Human Rights First -- Rhetoric v. Reality: Biden Administration Should Correct Misleading Narrative on Asylum Eligibility, August 1, 2023
Migraton Policy Institute -- At the Breaking Point Rethinking the U.S. Immigration Court System, July 2023
Judicial Watch -- ICE Detainers for Illegal Immigrants in Local Jails Drop Sharply Under Biden, June 26, 2023
Judicial Watch -- ICE Detainers for Illegal Immigrants in Local Jails Drop Sharply Under Biden, June 26, 2023
Econofact -- Migration of Central American Minors to the United States, June 6, 2023
Council on Foreign Relations -- The U.S. Immigration Debate, June 6, 2023
Migration Policy Institute -- U.S. Border Asylum Policy Enters New Territory Post-Title 42, May 25, 2023
Immigration Impact -- Finding a Pro Bono Immigration Attorney Is Harder Than Ever, May 19, 2023
Orange County Justice Fund (OCJF) -- The State of Immigration Enforcement and Legal Resources in Orange County, May 2023
Center for Immigration Studies -- Parole with Benefits: A million Biden parolees march toward a multi-billion-dollar welfare ‘parole payday’ , April 13, 2023
American Bar Association Commission on Immigration -- PRIMER: Immigration Enforcement Mechanisms at the U.S. Border, March 29, 2023
Center for Immigration Studies -- Biden’s DHS: Deception Without a Hint of Shame, March 20, 2023
Center for Immigration Studies -- Hiring Illegals Is a Crime, March 6, 2023
First Focus on Children -- Issue Brief: Fast, Not Fair — How Expedited Processes Harm Immigrant Children Seeking Protection , March 6, 2023
FAIR -- Immigration Courts Are Working Faster, And Getting Further Behind, March 2, 2023
Government Transparency Institute -- Advances in measuring corruption and agenda for the future, March 2023
Migration Policy Institute -- Unblocking the U.S. Immigration System, February 2023
Center for Immigration Studies -- Two Years of Biden’s Immigration Policies , January 31, 2023
Federation For American Immigration Reform (FAIR) -- The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration, 2023
Center for Migration Studies of New York, Journal on Migration and Human Security -- The US Immigration Courts, Dumping Ground for the Nation’s Systemic Immigration Failures: The Causes, Composition, and Politically Difficult Solutions to the Court Backlog, 2023
Center for Migration Studies -- Climate Migration and the Future of Immigration Policy in the United States, December 2022
Center for Immigration Studies -- Half a Million Aliens Released into the U.S. on ‘Alternatives to Detention’, November 2, 2022
Center for Immigration Studies -- Former Miss Rhode Island Gets Probation for Sneaking into ICE Detention . . ., November 1, 2022
Migration Policy Institute -- Amid Record Venezuelan Arrivals, Biden Administration Embraces Border Expulsions Policy, October 27, 2022
Center for Immigration Studies -- You’ve Got a Smuggler? You’ve Got a Lawyer!, October 20, 2022
Association of Mature American Citizens -- ICE Issues Smartphones to 255,602 Illegal Border-Crossers; Cost Is $89.5 Million a Year, October 13, 2022
Boundless Immigration -- What Biden’s Pardon For Marijuana Convictions Means For Immigrants, October 6, 2022
Judicial watch -- Immigration Courts Dismiss “Historical Record” Cases, On Track to Triple Last Year’s Closures, September 22, 2022
Judicial Watch -- Immigration Courts Dismiss “Historical Record” Cases, On Track to Triple Last Year’s Closures, September 22, 2022
Immigration Impact -- Immigration Agencies Get Hit with Record-High Lawsuits as Delays Worsen, July 20, 2022
Center for American Progress -- Immigrants and Asylum-Seekers Deserve Humane Alternatives To Detention, July 13, 2022
WOLA -- Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: Remain in Mexico, Tragedy in San Antonio, Title 42 in House appropriations, July 1, 2022
The Center for Growth and Opportunity -- Immigration Enforcement and Labor Supply: Hispanic Youth in Mixed-Status Families, June 29, 2022
Advocacy for Human Rights in the Americas (WOLA) -- Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: Migrant death toll, Remain in Mexico, Paroles and caravan arrivals, security in Mexico, June 24, 2022
Independent Women's Forum -- Two Truths and a Lie: Immigration, June 7, 2022
The Pew Charitable Trusts -- States Band Together to Block Immigration Policy , May 9, 2022
Migration Policy Institute Policy Brief -- Humanitarian Pathways for Central Americans Assessing Opportunities for the Future, May 2022
Mijente, Colorodo Immigrant Rights Coalition, Just Futures Law, The Meyer Law Office, ACLU CO, Denver Justice Project, American Friends Service Committee Colorado, Denver Justice and Peace Committee, Colorado Consumer Health Initiative -- Sabotaging Sanctuary How Data Brokers Give ICE Backdoor Access to Colorado's Data and Jails, April 20, 2022
BOUNDLESS -- One Third of Immigration Court Cases Are Children, 40% of Those Are Toddlers, March 24, 2022
Human Rights First Thanks the House Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations for holding a hearing -- Examining the Court-Ordered Reimplementation of the Remain in Mexico Policy, March 2, 2022
Migration Policy Institute -- Mounting Backlogs Undermine U.S. Immigration System and Impede Biden Policy Changes, February 23, 2022
Human Rights Watch -- Comment pouvez-vous nous renvoyer?, February 10, 2022
Human Rights Watch -- US: Border Program’s Huge Toll on Children, February 4, 2022
ACLU of Northern California -- Collusion in California’s Central Valley: The Case for Ending Sheriff Entanglement with ICE, February 2022
Judicial Watch -- “Increased Immigration Flows” Under Biden Cause Record-Breaking Court Backlog, January 25, 2022
Immigration Impact -- New Report Amplifies Concerns About ‘Dedicated Docket’ for Asylum Seekers, January 20, 2022
ImmigrationReform.com -- Criminal Immigration Prosecutions Drop at Southern Border , November 11, 2021
Center for Public Integrity -- Public Integrity joins argument in free press court case, October 26, 2021
The Center for Public Integrity -- Public Integrity Sues for National Guard Deployment Records, September 22, 2021
Migration Policy Institute -- Strengthening Services for Unaccompanied Children in U.S. Communities, June 2021
Injustice Watch -- Illinois legislature passes bill to close state’s immigration detention centers, May 28, 2021
Immigration Reform.com -- Immigration Courts Allowing More Migrants to Stay in U.S., May 24, 2021
Immigration Law Teachers and Scholars -- Letter to The Honorable Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General of the United States Re: U.S. Department of Justice Authority to Remove Non-Priority Cases from the Active Docket of the Nation’s Immigration Courts, April 30, 2021
SBCC -- Asylum Seekers at the Border, April 23, 2021
Niskanen Center -- U.S. Capacity on the Southern Border, March 30, 2021
New Jersy Policy Perspective -- Cooperation with ICE Deepens Racial and Economic Disparities in New Jersey, March 24, 2021
Niskanen Center -- President Biden’s LGBTQI+ Memorandum Protects Refugees & Asylum Seekers; What Else Can Be Done?, March 12, 2021
Center on Media Crime and Justice at John Jay College -- FOIA Requesters Wait Months, Years for Answers: Report, February 4, 2021
The Center for Migration Studies -- President Biden’s Executive Actions on Immigration, February 2, 2021
Vera Institute of Justice -- A Federal Defender Service for Immigrants: Why We Need a Universal, Zealous, and Person-Centered Mode, February 2021
Vera Institute of Justice -- A Federal Defender Service for Immigrants: Why We Need a Universal, Zealous, and Person-Centered Model , February 2021
Center on Media Crime and Justice at John Jay College -- ‘Gigantic Pileup’ of 1.3 Million Immigration Cases Awaits Biden, January 20, 2021
The Center for Public Integrity -- Trump Administration will pay Public Integrity Attorney's Fees In Two More FOIA Lawsuits, January 18, 2021
Migration Policy Institute -- At the Starting Gate The Incoming Biden Administration’s Immigration Plans, November 20, 2020
Center for Immigration Studies -- Astounding Asylum Numbers in DOS Refugee Report for FY 2021, October 26, 2020
POGO -- Unqualified Impunity: When Government Officials Break the Law, They Often Get Away With It, October 22, 2020
Center for Immigration Studies -- Trump vs. Biden on Immigration Enforcement Generally, October 12, 2020
Texas Public Policy Foundaiton -- Border Security at a Crossroads: The Uncertain Future of America’s Southwestern Border, October 2020
Vera Institute of Justice -- Evidence Shows That Most Immigrants Appear for Immigration Court Hearings, October 2020
Immigration Impact -- New Data Disproves Trump Administration’s Push to End Administrative Closure, September 16, 2020
Human Rights Watch -- Public Comment Opposing Proposed Asylum Bars, August 10, 2020
Center for Immigration Studies -- Being Black and Immigrant in America, August 3, 2020
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Press Release -- Congressional Hispanic Caucus Demands Trump Administration Explain Incomplete Immigration Court Data, June 16, 2020
National Association of Immigration Judges -- The National Association of Immigration Judges Statement on DOJ OIG Report on Executive Office for Immigration Review Fiscal Year 2019 Financial Management Practices, June 10, 2020
National Immigration Forum -- Legislative Bulletin, June 5, 2020
Migration Policy Institute -- One Year after the U.S.-Mexico Agreement Reshaping Mexico’s Migration Policies, June 2020
The Vera Institute -- Advancing Universal Representation: A Toolkit, May 2020
American Oversight -- The Increase in FOIA Lawsuits Isn’t the Problem — It’s Agencies Underfunding Their Transparency Obligations, March 17, 2020
Global Sisters Report -- In a village of tents, refugees make a life as they wait on US asylum, March 2, 2020
Human Rights Wath -- Deported to Danger, February 2020
Center for Public Integrity -- Trump Plans to Collect DNA from Nearly a Million Immigrant Detainees, January 31, 2020
POGO -- Threats to Due Process in U.S. Immigration Courts, January 29, 2020
ACLU -- One Year of Forced Return to Mexico; Three Years of Trump Dismantling the Asylum System, January 29, 2020
National Immigration Forum Statement for the Record U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary - Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship -- Hearing on “Courts in Crisis: The State of Judicial Independence and Due Process in U.S. Immigration Courts”, January 29, 2020
American Immigration Council -- Prosecuting People for Coming to the United States, January 26, 2020
Human Rights Watch -- Human Rights Watch Comment on Proposed Asylum Eligibility Bars, January 21, 2020
The Center for Public Integrity -- From Ukraine to the U.S. government, Public Integrity journalists fight for open records, December 9, 2019
PEER -- Federal Pollution Prosecutions Continue to Fall, November 21, 2019
Human Rights Watch -- Written Testimony: “Examining the Human Rights and Legal Implications of DHS’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy”, November 19, 2019
Better Government Associaton -- Fact-Check: Durbin Mostly on Track with Claim on Illinois Deportations, October 27, 2019
Center for Public Integrity -- State Department to pay Center for Public Integrity thousands following FOIA lawsuit , October 25, 2019
Project on Government Oversight -- How Corporate Lawbreakers Get a Leg Up at the Justice Department, October 23, 2019
Texas Public Policy Foundation -- Border Security An Assessment of the Metrics, September 2019
Institute for Defense Analysis -- A Benefit-Cost Analysis of Expanding Federally Funded Counsel Programs for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in Removal Proceedings in the United States, September 2019
National Immigrant Justice Center -- Decriminalizing Migration: Ending Prosecutions for Border Crossing Violations, August 1, 2019
National Immigrant Justice Center -- Decriminalizing Migration: Ending Prosecutions for Border Crossing Violations, August 2019
Migration Policy Institute -- From Control to Crisis: Changing Trends and Policies Reshaping U.S.-Mexico Border Enforcement, August 2019
Center for American Progress -- Restoring the Rule of Law Through a Fair, Humane, and Workable Immigration System, July 22, 2019
Migration Policy Insitute -- As the Trump Administration Seeks to Remove Families, Due-Process Questions over Rocket Dockets Abound, July 2019
The Center for Public integrity -- Number of ICE Detainees With No Criminal Record Rises Sharply, defying Trump Rhetoric, June 25, 2019
Cato Institute -- Higher Asylum Grant Rates Predict Higher Family Appearance Rates in Top Immigration Courts, June 20, 2019
Innovation Law Lab, The Southern Poverty Law Center -- The Attonery General's Judges: How the U.S. Immigration Courts Became a Deportation Tool, June 2019
Center for Public Integrity -- Only 11 people were prosecuted for hiring undocumented workers in the last year. , May 31, 2019
Center for Immigration Studies -- Immigration Myths vs. Facts vs. 'The Round Table' , May 31, 2019
Center for Immigration Studies -- Closing the Loop on 'Defective NTAs' Further explaining the importance of Ortiz-Santiago, May 29, 2019
Center for Immigration Studies -- Does the United States Need to Invest More in Border Enforcement?, May 16, 2019
Human Rights First -- Parsing Truth from Fiction in President Trump’s Latest Attempt to Restrict Asylum, April 30, 2019
Center for Immigration Studies -- Questions about Family Units Raised by TRAC Numbers don't add up, and a possible disaster is brewing, April 1, 2019
ACLU Florida -- Citizens on Hold: A Look at ICE’s Flawed Detainer System in Miami-Dade County , March 20, 2019
American Bar Associaton -- 2019 Update Report: Reforming the Immigration System - Proposals to Promote Independence, Fairness, Efficiency, and Professionalism in the Adjudication of Removal Cases, March 2019
Center for Immigration Studies -- Notes on a Deal I Haven't Seen, February 13, 2019
Human Rights First -- Fack Check: Asylum Seekers Regularly Attend Immigration Court Hearings, January 25, 2019
Brookings -- When it comes to the border, money doesn’t solve all problems, January 17, 2019
Center for Immigration Studies -- Home Andrew R. Arthur Breaking Down TRAC's Surprising Asylum Stats Breaking Down TRAC's Surprising Asylum Stats, January 17, 2019
The Pew Charitable Trusts -- Urban Sheriffs Flee ICE Program as Small Counties Join Trump’s Deportation Push , January 14, 2019
Center for Immigration Studies -- If You Don't Fund Judges, Don't Complain About Backlogs, January 9, 2019
Immigrant Legal Resource Center -- The State of Orange County, January 2019
Migration Policy Institute -- Sustainable Reintegration: Strategies to Support Migrants Returning to Mexico and Central America, January 2019
Center for Immigration Studies -- House Freedom Caucus Looks to Plug Loopholes A lame-duck Hail Mary?, December 14, 2018
Cato Institute -- Trump Administration Increases Immigration Enforcement at Business, December 14, 2018
American Immigration Council -- The Landscape of Immigration Detenton in the United States, December 2018
New Jersey Policy Perspective -- Working with ICE: A Costly Choice for New Jersey, November 2018
Vera Institute of Justice -- Why Does Representation Matter? The Impact of Legal Representation in Immigration Court, November 2018
Center for Immigration Studies -- Sessions Delivers on Immigration Judges Boosting the number of adjudicators is crucial to cutting the backlog, October 31, 2018
ProPublica -- Even in Philadelphia, One of the Most Determined Sanctuary Cities, Refuge Is Elusive, October 18, 2018
The Center for Public Integrity -- ICE data: Tens of thousands of deported parents have U.S. citizen kids, October 12, 2018
Southern Poverty Law Center -- No End in Sight, October 3, 2018
Bipartisan Policy Center -- Crisis at the Border? Overall Numbers Down, but New Migrant Flows Are Testing the System, October 1, 2018
Center for Immigration Studies -- New TRAC Report Shows Where ICE Arrests Occur, September 26, 2018
The Marshall project -- Zero Tolerance Lives On, September 14, 2018
Center for Immigration Studies -- DOJ Brings on Largest Class of IJs Ever: Another effort to reduce the immigration court backlog, September 13, 2018
Center for Immigration Studies -- The AG Should Take Another Overdue Step to Oblige Compliance with Immigration Court Orders, September 3, 2018
Human Rights Watch -- The Venezuelan Exodus: The Need for International Protection and the Region’s Response, September 3, 2018
Migration Policy Institute -- The U.S. Asylum System in crisis: Charting a Way Forward, September 2018
Cato Institute -- U.S. Citizens Targeted by ICE: U.S. Citizens Targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Texas, August 29, 2018
Human Rights Watch -- Q&A: Trump Administration’s "Zero-Tolerance" Immigration Policy, August 16, 2018
Immigraton Reform.com -- Media Ignores Crisis Of Indian Illegal Immigrants, August 15, 2018
POGO -- As “Zero Tolerance” Cases Skyrocket, Other Prosecutions Slow, August 14, 2018
Niskanen Center -- Asylum Fraud Isn’t What You Think It Is, August 14, 2018
Center for Migration Studies -- Mass deportations will impoverish US families and hurt the economy , August 8, 2018
The Center for Public Integrity -- Center ranked third among news organizations filing Freedom of Information Act lawsuits since 2001 , August 3, 2018
ImmigrationReform.com -- Circling the ICE Wagons, August 2, 2018
American Immigration Council -- Detaining Families: A Study of Asylum Adjudication in Family Detention, August 2018
Migration Policy Institute -- Crisis at the Border? Not by the Numbers, June 21, 2018
Center for American Progress -- Incarcerating Entire Families Cannot Be the Solution to the Separation of Children, June 20, 2018
Catholic Immigration Legal Network, LLC -- Practice Pointer Matter of Castro - Tum , 27 I&N Dec. 271 (A.G. 2018) 1, June 5, 2018
Cato Institute -- The State of Immigration Enforcement, May 16, 2018
Migration Policy Institute -- Revving Up the Deportation Machinery: Enforcement and Pushback under Trump, May 2018
The Southeast Asia Resource Action Center: Fact Sheet -- The Devastating Impact of Deportation on Southeast Asian Americans, April 25, 2018
Immigration Impact -- The Trump Administration Is Placing More Long-Residing Immigrants Into Court Proceedings, April 24, 2018
Human Rights Watch -- US Deporting More Long-Term Residents, April 21, 2018
Testimony of Andrew R. Arthur Resident Fellow in Law and Policy Center for Immigration Studies To the Subcommittee on Border and Immigration United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary -- For A Hearing Titled: "Strengthening and Reforming America's Immigration Court System" , April 18, 2018
ProPublica -- Who Polices the Immigration Police?, April 16, 2018
Center for Public Integrity -- Center for Public Integrity sues EPA over public-records delays, April 13, 2018
National Immigration Forum -- U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Hearing on " A ‘Caravan’ of Illegal Immigrants: A Test of U.S. Borders ", April 11, 2018
Immigration Impact -- Immigration Judge Quotas Could Result in Assembly Line Justice, April 4, 2018
Bipartisan Policy Center -- The Prosecution Pipeline: How Policies from Bush to Trump Ended up Putting More Immigrants in Federal Prisons, March 27, 2018
WOLA -- 6 Facts About Alleged “Loopholes” in the U.S. Immigration Process, March 14, 2018
The Center for Public Integrity -- Accessing government records isn't always easy. Here's how we've pursued them, and why it matters, March 14, 2018
Immigrant Justice.org -- Assumption of Risk: Legal Liabilities for Local Governments that Choose to Enforce Federal Immigration Laws, March 2018
Sunlight Foundation -- New analyses find a secretive EPA is hampering the public’s rights to know, February 27, 2018
Project on Government Oversight -- Enforcement of Environmental Laws Drops Under Trump Administration, February 20, 2018
Human Rights First -- Immigration Court Appearance Rates, February 2018
Center for Immigration Studies -- Immigration Courts Sets New Priorities, Performance Measures, January 22, 2018
NRA 1st Freedom -- Under Jeff Sessions, Gun Prosecutions Rise, January 9, 2018
Center for Immigration Studies -- Attorney General Orders Review of Administrative Closure, January 9, 2018
WOLA -- Fact Sheet: U.S. Immigration and Central American Asylum Seekers, January 9, 2018
Humanity in Action -- The Plight of Unaccompanied Child Migrants: United States and European Union Asylum Policies and Effects on the Most Vulnerable Population, 2018

 
Catholic Legal Immigration network -- Practitioner’s Guide Obtaining Release From Immigration Detention, 2018
Center for Migration Studies, Journal on Migration and Human Security -- Original Article From IIRIRA to Trump: Connecting the Dots to the Current US Immigration Policy Crisis, 2018
Center for Immigration Studies -- Expedite Denial of Baseless Asylum Claims: A simple way the attorney general could reduce the immigration court backlog, December 18, 2017
Human Rights Watch -- The Deported Immigrants Uprooted from the Country They Call Home, December 5, 2017
Human Rights First -- Asylum Behind Bars, October 20, 2017
Immigration Impact -- Mexican Nationals and Detained Individuals Are Uniquely Disadvantaged in Immigration Court, Data Finds, October 20, 2017
Human Rights First -- Backlogs Grow While Fairness Shrinks in U.S. Immigration Courts, October 2017
Muckrock -- While deportation rates drop, the number of people held at detention centers steadily rises, September 13, 2017
Government Accountability Project -- ICE Refuses To Release Basic Agency Documents, September 12, 2017
Open the Government -- New report reveals growing government secrecy in immigration enforcement, September 5, 2017
American Immigration Council -- Deportations in the Dark: Lack of Process and Information in the Removal of Mexican Migrant, September 2017
Federation for American Immigration Reform -- The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers, September 2017
FactCheck.org -- Trump’s Misleading Blame on Opioids, August 9, 2017
Center for Immigration Studies -- The Massive Increase in the Immigration Court Backlog, Its Causes, and Solutions, July 24, 2017
Niskanen Center -- The Causes of our Immigration Court Backlog, and How We Can Fix It, July 19, 2017
Migration Policy Institute -- The Trump Administration at Six Months: A Sea Change in Immigration Enforcement , July 19, 2017
Center for Immigration Studies -- Deflating the Immigration Court Backlog Balloon , June 20, 2017
Center for Immigration Studies -- Breaking Down the Increasing Backlogs in Immigration Court, June 9, 2017
Immigrant Legal Resource Center -- Fair Treatment Denied: The Trump Administration’s Troubling Attempt to Expand “Fast -Track” Deportations, June 2017
Center for Immigration Studies -- "Punishing" Apprehended Illegal Aliens with Alternatives to Detention? , May 22, 2017
Drug Policy Alliance -- Are ICE Agents Using Marijuana As An Excuse To Arrest Immigrants? - See more at: https://thefreshtoast.com/cannabis/are-ice-agents-using-marijuana-as-an-excuse-to-arrest-immigrants/#sthash.Sg366Kt0.dpuf, May 20, 2017
Human Rights Watch -- Misguided Bill Bans Sanctuary Cities in Texas , May 10, 2017
POGO -- ICE’s Private Detention Centers Keep Data Under Lock and Key, May 3, 2017
American Immigration Council -- Why Caution is Needed Before Hiring Additional Border Patrol Agents and ICE Officers, April 2017
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Minnesota -- Letter to Minnesota Sheriffs and Police Chiefs about the costs and risks of local law enforcement agencies’ involvement in federal immigration enforcement , March 27, 2017
American Immigration Council -- Immigration Detainers: An Overview, March 20, 2017
Center for Public Policy Priorities -- Ongoing Changes to SB 4 – What we Know, March 20, 2017
Center for Immigration Studies -- Courting Disaster Absent attendance and absent enforcement in America’s immigration courts, March 2017
NACLA -- Beyond Rhetoric: “Sanctuary” in Practice, February 17, 2017
The Marshall Project -- Decoding Trump’s Immigration Orders, February 3, 2017
Center for American Progress -- The Effects of Sanctuary Policies on Crime and the Economy, January 26, 2017
Human Right First -- Immigration Court Backlog Continues to Grow, January 18, 2017
American Thinker -- Illegal alien who raped 13-year-old girl was deported 10 times, December 31, 2016
StoptheDrugWar.org -- The Top Ten Domestic Drug Policy Stories of 2016 , December 29, 2016
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting -- Meet the Central American Women the United States is Detaining and Deporting , December 26, 2016
The Center for Public Integrity -- Center among leaders in filing Freedom of Information Act suits , December 6, 2016
Center for Immigration Studies -- A Faux Analysis of Immigration Judge Asylum Cases by GAO, December 5, 2016
Center for Immigration Studies -- EOIR Takes a Small Step in the Right Direction to Cut Backlog, December 1, 2016
Human Rights First -- Correcting the Record: Recently Arrived Immigrants Show Up for Their Hearings, November 30, 2016
Center for Immigration Studies -- They Still Just Don't Get It , November 13, 2016
Migration Policy Institute -- Unauthorized Immigrants with Criminal Convictions: Who Might Be a Priority for Removal?, November 2016
Southern Poverty Law Center -- Shadow Prisons, November 2016
Center for Immigration Studies -- Birthright Citizenship Policy Creates Downstream Problems , October 5, 2016
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press -- Press Release: Reporters Committee launches “FOIA Wiki” beta, October 3, 2016
NRA America's 1st Freedom -- San Bernardino: First In Murders, Last In Gun Prosecutions, September 17, 2016
Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) -- Improving the Protection and Fair Treatment of Unaccompanied Children, September 2016
NRA 1st Freedom -- An Attack On Our Cops Is An Attack On All Of Us, August 22, 2016
Center for Immigration Studies -- Transforming America, One Immigration Case at a Time , August 22, 2016
Immigration Impact -- Immigration Enforcement Still Missing the Mark on Detainers, August 17, 2016
America's Voice -- Despite DHS Policy, Shady Tactics From ICE Alarmingly Continue, August 10, 2016
Federation for American Immigration Reform -- Immigration Court Backlog Tops 500,000 Cases, August 2, 2016
American Immigration Council -- Despite Immigration Judge Hiring, Court Backlogs Continue to Grow, July 27, 2016
Center for Immigration Studies -- Immigration Court Backlogs and the Smuggling of Alien Women and Children , July 22, 2016
Justice Strategies -- Indefensibile: A Decade of Mass Incarceration of Migrants Prosecuted for Crossing the Border, July 2016
Texas Public Policy Foundation -- The Inefficient U.S. Immigration System: A Texas Perspective, July 2016
NRA 1st Freedom -- How To Fix The Crime Problem In Chicago, April 28, 2016
Project on Government Oversight (POGO) -- IRS Corporate Tax Recovery Suffers After Deep Budget Cuts, April 15, 2016
Migration Policy Institute -- Unaccompanied Child Migration to the United States: The Tension between Protection and Prevention, April 2016
150+ Groups Oppose 'Operation Border Guardian -- Letter to White House, DHS, March 30, 2016
NRA America's 1st Freedom -- Is Obama’s DOJ Too Political To Tackle Chicago’s Murder Problem?, March 17, 2016
Human Rights First -- The U.S. Immigration Court: A Ballooning Backlog that Requires Action, March 15, 2016
NRA America's 1st Freedom -- Only Gun Honesty Will Cure Chicagoland, March 3, 2016
Human Rights First -- Press Release: House Members Introduce Bill to Provide Lawyers for Children, Vulnerable Individuals, February 26, 2016
Jesuit Refugee Service -- Jesuit Refugee Service/USA & Jesuit Law Schools Applaud Introduction of Fair Day in Court for Kids Act of 2016, February 25, 2016
Center for Immigration Studies -- Concrete Evidence of the Continuing Plunge in Both Civil and Criminal Immigration Enforcement, January 23, 2016
Human Rights First -- New Legislation Would Provide Lawyers for Children, Vulnerable Individuals, January 11, 2016
Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) -- JRS urges protection for asylum seekers, not deportation, January 4, 2016
Northwest Immigration Rights Project -- Get to Know J.E.F.M. V. Lynch, 2016
Human Rights First -- Congress Funds 55 New Immigration Judge Teams—Extensive Backlog Requires More, December 21, 2015
Human Rights First -- Human Rights First Applauds Inclusion of Funding for Immigration Courts in Omnibus Package, December 18, 2015
Judicial Watch -- DHS Rarely Deports for Terrorism: 1,000th of 1 % of Cases, December 11, 2015
Everytown for Gun Safety -- Business as Usual: How High-Volume Gun Sellers Fuel the Criminal Market and How the President Can Stop Them, November 2015
PR Newswire -- CCRKBA: Obama Prosecutes Fewer Gun Cases While Penalizing Honest Citizens, October 28, 2015
NRA -- Chicago: Murder On The Rise, October 27, 2015
Human Rights First -- Temporary Spending Bill leaves Immigration Court Delays, Backlogs Unaddressed, September 30, 2015
Jesuit Refugee Service -- USA: solutions for legal challenges facing asylum seekers, September 25, 2015
Human Rights First -- TRAC Numbers Demonstrate Need for Immigration Court Funding to Address Worsening Backlogs, September 22, 2015
POGO -- FOIA Fee Waivers Protected, September 14, 2015
A briefing Before the United Sates Commission on Civil Rights Held in Washington, DC -- With Liberty and Justice for All: The State of Civil Rights at Immigration Detention Facilities, September 2015
American Immigration Council -- ICE Issuing Fewer Detainers, but Compliance With Enforcement Priorities in Question, August 31, 2015
NRA America's 1st Freedom -- The Hole In Chicago's Excuses, August 11, 2015
Immigration Reform Law Institute -- The US Border: A Revolving Door for Illegal Aliens, July 9, 2015
American Immigration Council -- The Criminalization of Immigration in the United States, July 2015
Jesuit Refugee Service/USA -- A Fair Chance for Due Process: Challenges in Legal protection for Central American Asylum seekers and Other Vulnerable Migrants, June 22, 2015
Immigration Policy Center -- Empty Benches: Underfunding of Immigration Courts Undermines Justice, May 21, 2015
A Joint Report of Migration and Refugee Services/United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and The Center for Migration Studies -- Unlocking Human Dignity: A Plan to Transform the U.S. Immigrant Detention System, May 11, 2015
Human Rights First -- NYC is Doing It Right with Lawyers for Unaccompanied Minors, April 2, 2015
American Civil Liberties Union -- Big Government v. Traumatized Defenseless Children = Justice?, March 18, 2015
Human Rights First -- Without a Lawyer, 98.5% of Mother and Child Asylum Seekers Deported, February 26, 2015
Washington Office on Latin America -- On the Front Lines Border Security, Migration, and Humanitarian Concerns in South Texas, February 2015
Center for Immigration Studies -- Disabling Detainers How the Obama administration has trashed a key immigration enforcement tool, January 2015
Center for American Progress -- The Facts on Immigration Today, October 22, 2014
American Civil Liberties Union -- How Can a Three-Year Old Represent Himself in Court?, October 22, 2014
StoptheDrugWar.org -- Chronicle AM: Dallas to Stop Marijuana Arrests, Rick Steves Campaigns, DEA Agent Makes Fake Facebook Page, More (10/7/14), October 7, 2014
American Civil Liberties Union -- ACLU and JFON Applaud Douglas County Policy Declining Immigration Detainer Requests, October 2, 2014
American Civil Liberties Union -- ACLU-NJ Applauds Union County for First Countywide Policy in NJ Declining Immigration Detainer Requests, August 12, 2014
Center for American Progess -- Children Fleeing Central American Violence Need Access to Lawyers, August 7, 2014
Immigration Policy Center -- Taking Attendance: New Data Finds Majority of Children Appear in Immigration Court, July 29, 2014
American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota -- Open letter to Sheriffs in Minnesota on their ICE detainer policy, May 7, 2014
American Immigration Council -- New Reports Undermine Obama Administration’s Claims About Deportations, April 11, 2014
Center for Migration Studies -- Immigration Detention: Behind the Record Numbers, February 13, 2014
Center for Immigration Studies -- Immigration Matters Prosecutorial Discretion, or Abuse of Discretion?, January 7, 2014
The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) and The Torture Abolition and Survivor Support Coalition, International (TASSC) -- Tortured & Detained Survivor Stories of U.S. Immigration Detention, November 2013
Center for Immigration Studies -- More Evidence of Enforcement Stagnation, July 27, 2013
Human Rights Watch -- Turning Migrants into Criminals The Harmful Impact of US Border Prosecutions, May 23, 2013
Bipartisan for Citizen Reform -- Interior Immigration Enforcement by the Numbers, May 20, 2013
Physicians for Human Rights -- Buried Alive: Solitary Confinement in the US Detention System, April 2013
The National Association of Immigration Judges -- The State of Our Courts: A View From The Inside, April 2013
National Day Laborer Organizing Network -- New Data Calls into Question President's Progress on Immigration Reform, February 20, 2013
California Rifle and Pistol Association -- What Should America Do About Gun Violence?, January 30, 2013
Migration Policy Insitute -- Immigration Enforcement in the United States: The Rise of a Formidable Machinery, January 2013
Migration News -- DHS: Border, Interior, USCIS, January 2013
freedominfo.org -- FOI Notes: Measuring Transparency, Calls for Papers, Reports, More, December 21, 2012
Center for Immigration Studies -- Government Seems to Juggle Financing of Appeals Process to Increase Migration, December 13, 2012
Women's Refugee Commission -- Forced From Home: The Lost Boys and Girls of Central America, October 15, 2012
Peak Oil Blues -- When Mental Health Becomes an Economic Issue (and what to do about it…), September 16, 2012
Justice Strategies Report -- Privately Operated Federal Prisons for Immigrants: Expensive. Unsafe. Unnecessary, September 13, 2012
National Immigration Forum -- Operation Streamline: Unproven Benefits Outweighed by Cost to Taxpayers, September 2012
National Immigration Justice Center and Physicians for Human Rights -- Invisible in Isolation: The Use of Segregation and Solitary Confinement in Immigration Detention, September 2012
Government Accountability Institute -- Justice Inaction: The Department of Justice’s Unprecedented Failure to Prosecute Big Finance, August 1, 2012
Government Accountability Institute -- Justice Inaction: The Department of Justice’s Unprecedented Failure to Prosecute Big Finance, August 2012
Immigration Impact.com -- Immigration Court Backlog Keeps Growing, July 26, 2012
21st Century Border -- Agency recommends changes to DHS to ease backlog on immigration courts, June 28, 2012
Judicial Watch -- More Stealth Amnesty Behind The Scenes, June 22, 2012
Report for the Administrative Conference of the United States -- Enhancing Quality and Timeliness in Immigration Removal Adjudication, June 7, 2012
Truthout -- US Policies Separate Families, Kill the Sick and Create Havoc on the Mexican Border, May 30, 2012
Immigration Assistance Program -- New report highlights the importance of discretion in deportation cases, May 23, 2012
Overlawyered -- Update: Baltimore City Paper on South Mountain Creamery case, April 21, 2012
The National Security Archive -- Central Intelligence Agency Digs In, Refuses to Repeal Damaging Mandatory Declassification Review Regulations. Department of Justice Defends. White House, Congress Silent., April 19, 2012
Project On Government Oversight -- From Comfort Capsules to Human Trafficking, Schwellenbach's Investigations 'Ahead of the Curve', April 16, 2012
America's Voice -- Who is a Criminal? ICE’s Less-than-Reliable Numbers on 'Criminal Offenders', April 4, 2012
Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) -- ICE Records Don't Match Deportation Claims, January 4, 2012
Justice System Journal, Volume 33, Number 1, National Center for State Courts -- Understanding Judicial Decision Making In Immigration Cases At The U.S. Courts of Apeals, 2012
Care2.com -- Undocumented Teen Suicide Sparks Conservative Backlash, December 12, 2011
Judicial Watch -- Obama Admin Skews Deportation Figures, December 5, 2011
Project on Government Oversight -- TRACking the Decline in Criminal Prosecutions for Financial Fraud, November 30, 2011
The Economic Populist -- Some Ridiculous Statistics At A Glance, November 21, 2011
Firedoglake.com -- Two-Tiered Justice: Financial Prosecutions at a 20-Year Low, November 16, 2011
Detention Watch Network -- New Tools from @TRACReports For Tracking ICE Prosecutorial Discretion, October 21, 2011
Immigration Impact -- Redefining Criminality: Untangling DHS’s Record High Deportation Numbers, October 19, 2011
Truth-out and ACLU -- Weighing the Cost, Building Resistance, September 30, 2011
Truthout and ACLU -- Targeting Immigrants, September 22, 2011
Immigration Impact -- U.S. Sentencing Commission Data Reveals Dysfunction of U.S. Immigration System, September 9, 2011
Human Rights First -- “Rational Enforcement” – A Good Step for the Immigration Courts, August 23, 2011
Impunity Watch -- Political Asylum Denied More Frequently in El Paso, August 2, 2011
Immigration Impact -- New Data Shows Government Still Prioritizing Immigration Prosecutions over Dangerous Crime, June 30, 2011
Texas Civil Rights Review -- Obama Administration Setting Record for Felony Prosecutions of Immigrants, June 25, 2011
Texas Civil Rights Review -- 168 Cases Pending at T. Don Hutto, June 25, 2011
Human Rights Watch -- Far and Frequent Transfers Impede Hearings for Immigrant Detainees in the United States, June 14, 2011
Center for Immigration Studies -- Built to Fail: Deception and Disorder in America’s Immigration Courts, May 20, 2011
Cato Institute-Policy Analysis -- Leashing the Surveillance State How to Reform Patriot Act Surveillance Authorities, May 16, 2011
Project on Government Oversight -- POGO's SEC "Revolving Regulators" Report and Database: The People Who Made it Happen, May 13, 2011
Project on Government Oversight -- New Reports Put Financial Regulators in the Hot Seat, April 14, 2011
Cato Institute -- The Obama Administration's FOIA Compliance, April 11, 2011
Project on Government Oversight -- And This Year's Inductees into the FOIA Hall of Shame Are..., April 8, 2011
Cato Institute Individual Liberty, Free Markets and Peace -- The Reauthorization of the PATRIOT Act, March 9, 2011
Migration Policy Institute -- Executive Action on Immigration: Six Ways to Make the System Work Better, March 2011
Detention Watch Network -- New TRAC report: Federal Enforcement Shifts Under President @BarackObama, February 3, 2011
Institute for Justice and Journalism -- 15 Journalists Chosen for 2011 Fellowship Immigration in the Heartland Program Encourages In-Depth Reporting, February 2, 2011
National Immigration Forum -- Immigration Enforcement Fiscal Overview: Where are We, and Where are We Going?, February 2011
Migration Policy Institute -- Delegation and Divergence: A Study of 287 (g) State and Local Immigration Enforcement, January 2011
Migration Policy Institute -- More Than IRCA: US Legalization Programs and the Current Policy Debate, December 2010
National Immigration Forum -- Backgrounder Southwest Border Security Operations, December 2010
Change.org -- As Judges Reject Thousands of Deportation Cases, ICE Refuses to Share Enforcement Data, November 16, 2010
Center for Immigration Studies -- Good News: The Department of Justice Hires 24 More Immigration Judges, November 11, 2010
ProPublica -- As Deportations Increase, So Have Officials’ Attempts to Deport the Wrong People, November 10, 2010
National Immigrant Justice Center -- Isolated in Detention Limited Access to Legal Counsel in Immigration Detention Facilities Jeopardizes a Fair Day in Court, September 2010
Human Rights Watch -- Detained and at Risk Sexual Abuse and Harassment in United States Immigration Detention, August 25, 2010
The Center for Public Integrity -- National Security: Few Prosecutions for Unregistered Foreign Agents, July 1, 2010
Grassroots Leadership -- Operation Streamline: Drowning Justice and Draining Dollars along the Rio Grande, July 2010
Care2Causes -- Arizona IS America: Federal Immigration Enforcement Policies and Human Rights, June 18, 2010
Brookings Institution on the Executive Office for Immigratiion Review -- Prepared Statement of Russel R. Wheeler President, the Governnance Institute Visiting Fellow, the Brookings Institution on the Executive Office for Immigration Review, June 17, 2010
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) -- John Peter Suarez, An Analysis of his Record, March 2002
Morality in Media -- Advocacy Group Finds Clinton Justice Department Does not deliver on Candidate Clinton's Promise to Go After Smut Peddlers, October 1999
NRA -- Rifle Association cites TRAC data when it questions Clinton enforcement record, August 1999
Human Rights Watch -- Report citing TRAC data finds lax Justice Department prosecutions of brutal cops, June 1998
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