No, I don’t think it’s being maintained! Kind of a miracle it lasted as long as it did.

I see your point! I was just using the domain term to contrast from arrests at or along the Southern border. But yeah the North, (also Midwest) and elsewhere in the country, too. Thanks for tuning it!

Sounds like a cool project! Thanks for reading

Thank you for reading, I'll share that feedback with the team!

100%, such a rich dataset. Thanks for sharing Will!

Our analysis uses records from the Data Deportation Project. They FOIA'd ICE for arrest and detention records of over 3.5 immigrants spanning Obama's second term to the first four weeks of Trump's second term. This data is available for anyone to use:
deportationdata.org/data.html

This trend is partially due to historic lows in border arrests (freeing up space in the largest ICE facilities), and an increase in interior arrests. However, interior arrests aren't at a historic high, and the NE's largest detention center in had over 400 beds open. bloom.bg/43am95w

When immigrants are transferred across state lines they often need to get new legal counsel. ICE detention facilities in the South and SW are remote, with immigration lawyers few and far between. The avg distance to the closest immigration lawyer in Louisiana is over 100 miles.
bloom.bg/43am95w

In prior years few immigrants detained by ICE in the Northeast were sent to the South & SW. Virtually nobody sent to New Mexico, and less than 1% of ppl sent to Texas or Arizona. In Trump's first month, 12% of ppl detained in the NE were sent to Texas, 4% to NM and 3% to AZ.
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Getting transferred to the South and SW reduce detained immigrants' chances at staying in the country. 70% of people detained in Louisiana and New Mexico end up deported, which is double that of the Northeast and the Nat'l Avg, which is about 50%.
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Can’t wait to read, thank you for sharing

New gift link (3/22 - 3/29):
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

They expire every 7 days, here's a new gift link to our investigation on political podcasters/streamers on YT:
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come on down and say what up! (if you're going NICAR)

Thanks! The impact is a result from our super team, especially @natalielung.com for her continued reporting on the topic!