LibGuides: Immigration Law Research Guide: Data & Statistics

Resources

Mapping Deportations
“Mapping deportations invites you to see the history of U.S. immigration enforcement not as a series of disconnected events, but as a pattern. For more than two centuries, U.S. immigration enforcement has favored Europeans and their descendants while targeting non-white migrants for exclusion, removal, and punishment. Although U.S. immigration law and policy have shifted over time, the nation’s immigration enforcement regime has consistently produced this result.”
Analyzes deportation orders going back to 1895. Includes timelines with historical and legal information and data visualizations.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security: Immigration Statistics. Includes news releases covering nonimmigrant admissions, U.S. legal permanent residents, naturalizations, and estimates of the undocumented immigrant population, in addition to the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics (2004- ).

Executive Office for Immigration Review, Statistical Year Book (2000- ). Contents include a summary of highlights, statistical information relating to Immigration Courts, the Bureau of Immigration Appeals, and the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer (OCAHO), in addition to asylum statistics by nationality.

Syracuse University, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC): See TRAC's Immigration Project for detailed statistics on criminal immigration prosecutions, immigration arrests, immigration court outcomes, and the immigration court backlog. Includes various reports on different immigration enforcement topics, a Judge Information Center with detailed reports on how over 200 immigration judges have handled asylum cases, as well as civil and criminal cases in federal district courts, and a library of government immigration reports by the GAO, CRS and inspectors general.

U.S. Census Bureau:
- United States foreign-born population. Includes Reports, Data Tables, and Foreign-Born Profiles.

MPI Migration Data Hub. A project of the Migration Policy Institute, an independent think tank which analyzes the movement of people worldwide. The Data Hub provides immigration statistics, maps, and numbers for the United States and other countries. See also MPI's "Migration Information Source," an online journal which includes the "Country Resources" feature.