TRAC's New Home: tracreports.org
Our tracreports.org public website has migrated to a new home. We have migrated the main areas, including all of our immigration reports and immigration data tools that were on our public website, but we are still working on migrating some areas which prove to be more challenging. These will take a bit more time to get up and running properly. So expect to encounter broken links, and some things not yet being available. But rest assured we will be adding what still needs to be fully migrated as soon as we can.
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Referrals for Criminal Prosecution of Immigration Violations
2025-07-29 With case-by-case data through May 2025 obtained by TRAC under court order, the report examines recent trends in immigration criminal prosecutions. It also looks at the relative dominance of referrals from Border Patrol apprehensions and ICE arrests to those now received by U.S. Attorneys? Offices from the FBI, the DEA, and the ATF.
immigration
ICE Contractual Capacity and Number Detained: Overcapacity vs. Overcrowding
2025-07-08 After initial arrest and booking, individuals are often transferred by ICE to detention facilities located far from their homes. This raises questions about the rationale behind such transfers - whether due to limited local detention capacity or a strategic effort to relocate detainees to jurisdictions with fewer procedural safeguards, potentially expediting deportation proceedings.
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Immigration Prosecutions Jump in March 2025
2025-06-03 With case-by-case data through March 2025 obtained by TRAC through litigation, the report examines trends in immigration criminal prosecutions for harboring, illegal entry and illegal reentry that the Trump administration recently filed in the U.S. District Courts.
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Federal Prosecution of White-Collar Crimes Receiving Less and Less Attention
2025-05-23 This report provides a deep dive into federal prosecution of white-collar crimes over the last 40 years. Data through March of 2025 indicate significant further declines are already occurring in these prosecutions as the FBI gets diverted to assist in making immigration arrests.
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Trump Claims on Immigration Enforcement: Rhetoric vs Reality
2025-05-15 This report carefully compares the Trump administration?s claims regarding immigration removals and arrests during the first 100 days of this administration with the actual government records on its removals and arrests. It further provides permanent links to these government spreadsheets documenting this administration?s actual numbers so that these will remain readily available to the public.
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Trump's Ineffective Use of ICE Detainers: Numbers Jump but Few Produce Results
2025-04-15 This report details the use of ICE detainers by the new Trump administration. ICE detainers request that law enforcement agencies turn over immigrants in their custody to ICE. Only around one in four (28%) of these immigrants had been convicted of any crime. The report details how detainer usage has increased, what transpired after detainers were sent, and identifies particular states and cities targeted with detainers.
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Noncitizen Access to Legal Counsel in Immigration Court Differs by Language Spoken
2025-04-01 Many court watchers and legal advocates have observed that the byzantine nature of immigration law continues to present particular disadvantages to individuals who speak languages other than English. This report analyzes the patterns between language spoken as reported on court forms, access to legal representation, and outcome in Immigration Court.
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Trump Immigrant Removals Now 10 Percent Below Biden's Record
2025-03-25 Congressionally mandated semi-monthly reports document that ICE immigrant daily removals are lower than they were under Biden. Despite deploying staff from many sources and ordering active-duty military to the border to assist removal efforts, as weeks go by average daily removals under Trump?s administration are actually declining even further.
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First Days of Trump Administration: Did ICE Targeting Change?
2025-02-27 The report provides some details on where ICE targeted its immigration enforcement efforts during the first days of the Trump administration -- county-by-county, state-by-state, and nationality-by-nationality.
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Little Empirical Evidence Immigration Arrests and Removals Are Higher Under Trump
2025-02-25 Congressionally mandated semi-monthly ICE reports undermine claims that ICE immigration arrests and removals are higher under Trump than prevailed under Biden.
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Tracking Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown by
When Mr Trump took office, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began posting daily arrest figures on X. That did not last long. Some immigration experts suggest that the agency stopped when it became clear that they could not sustain tallies of 1,000 or so arrests a day. An analysis from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), which tracks immigration data, suggests that average daily arrests in the first few weeks ...
AP
What we know about the visa obtained by Egyptian man who injured a dozen people in Colorado by Elliot Spagat
Egyptians had an asylum grant rate of 72% during the 12-month period through September 2024, compared with 45% for all nationalities, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
CBS News Texas
Millions of asylum-seekers left waiting in immigration court backlog by Ken Molestina, Lexi Salazar, Katie Standing
There are 3.6 million immigration cases pending in the U.S., according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC. The organization keeps data on the federal government's enforcement activities. Two million of those pending cases are asylum-seekers, including 225,000 in Dallas.