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The availability and transparency of data on ICE arrests and convictions, including the distinction between violent and non-violent crimes.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...