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Data Transparency

The transparency of data released by the Department of Justice under the Epstein Files Transparency Act

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Jan 13, 2026
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how many immigrants deported in trump administration

Official Department of Homeland Security (DHS) tallies and administration statements put the number of people removed, deported or otherwise “left” the United States under President Trump’s second ter...

Jan 24, 2026
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Per centage arrested by ICE that are violent

Independent analyses of arrest data put the share of people with violent criminal convictions very low—roughly in the mid-single digits—while government statements emphasize a much larger share of “cr...

Jan 20, 2026
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What reporting differences existed between major news outlets in covering ICE operations under Obama versus later administrations?

Major outlets shifted in tone, emphasis and sourcing when covering ICE from the Obama years to the Trump and post‑Trump eras: earlier reporting sometimes included cooperative, embedded segments that e...

Jan 16, 2026

What are ICE’s documented attrition rates year‑over‑year since 2015?

A clear, authoritative year‑over‑year series of ICE “attrition rates” from 2015 through the present is not published in a single official table; publicly available datasets and trackers provide the ra...

Feb 5, 2026

How transparent is Physionic about evidence, sources, and conflicts of interest for product recommendations?

There is no reporting in the provided sources that directly documents ’s disclosure practices, so any definitive judgement about the company’s transparency on evidence, sources, and cannot be drawn fr...

Feb 5, 2026

Where can the public access the DOJ’s Epstein document release and are there official indexes or Bates-numbered catalogs?

has posted its disclosures on an official DOJ "Epstein Library" and on discrete Data Set pages—public access points managed on —while the department also issued a major press announcement about publis...

Feb 3, 2026

How many immigrants have been deported by Trump per year?

The number of immigrants deported under ’s second term is contested: official releases boast several hundred thousand removals in the administration’s first year, while independent analysts and report...

Jan 30, 2026

How does ICE categorize detainees by citizenship in its datasets and what reforms have been proposed to improve tracking of citizen detentions?

’s public datasets record a detainee’s “country of citizenship” and group detained populations by citizenship and criminal-history categories in their statistics , but those fields are imperfect: the ...

Jan 30, 2026

What are the major discrepancies between DHS/White House deportation claims and independent tallies like TRAC for 2024–2025?

The and statements during 2024–2025 repeatedly touted massive deportation figures— and millions “”—claims that independent tallies and data watchdogs say are inflated or not comparable to historical r...

Jan 30, 2026

Trump deportation numbers

Public figures for under ’s second term diverge sharply depending on the source: press releases assert hundreds of thousands of removals and millions “left” the country (combining removals and volunta...

Jan 18, 2026

How do independent trackers reconcile DHS removal claims with press and NGO counts for 2025 enforcement actions?

Independent trackers reconcile divergent counts of 2025 enforcement actions by treating DHS headline totals as a composite political metric while relying on component-level data (ICE ERO spreadsheets,...

Jan 16, 2026

Which sources provide the most reliable annual deportation statistics and how do they compile their totals?

The most authoritative annual deportation totals come from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Homeland Security Statistics (OHSS) Yearbook and its monthly Immigration Enforcement and Lega...

Jan 15, 2026

How have DHS and ICE public statements used dataset categories in political messaging, and how do independent analyses compare those claims?

DHS and ICE have repeatedly framed enforcement activity using statistics and dataset categories—publishing arrest counts, promoting “high-value” data releases, and packaging program inventories—to cre...

Jan 14, 2026

How does ForeignAssistance.gov report aid recipients and what methods convert dollar allocations into estimated beneficiary counts?

ForeignAssistance.gov publishes U.S. foreign assistance budgetary and financial data across agencies, organized by recipient (country, region, or worldwide), managing and funding agency, sector, and i...

Jan 8, 2026

Professor Rory Collins declines to release raw datasets for statin trials

Professor Rory Collins and the Cholesterol Treatment Trialists’ (CTT) collaboration have long been central custodians of individual patient data from many major statin trials, but independent calls fo...