Your visual guide to understanding deportation data: why the numbers vary depending on what you count and why we should insist on methodological transparency.
Really appreciate the nested diagram approach for breaking down these enforcement categories. The visual showing whats missing in the data is almost more powerful than the original diagram itself. I've done similar data transparency work in healthcare and the "show your work" principle applies universally. Definitional clarity mattres so much when you're trying to compare across time periods or sources.
Before we even get to real "deportation" figures, is there anything useful to be done about arrests, releases from arrest, and custody. You have brilliantly dug in on the output from a system. But no understanding is complete without comprehension of inputs and processing. For most types of law enforcement, all that data usually becomes public, and is fairly accurate, even if the PRESENTATION FORMAT favors the operator of the system. But not in this case, and I find that a disturbing change.
Use of ICE data and statistics when writing about the immigration system.
When you find errors in ICE government data do you still trust the information? Finding one error is one thing. Finding the same type of error at the same ICE facility, something is wrong. In my case, it’s book in and book out date errors on ICE detention stays at a Hold Room facility. Do I chalk it up to shoddy record keeping, acknowledge the errors and move on? ICE data is the crucial element on reporting the trump regime’s draconian immigration system. Should I show detention stays with ICE errors as an example and of what I found to illustrate my point? With this detention facility it’s a pattern not happenstance. That is part of the story.
So, here’s my quandary. Do I show all the data with the errors? If I do, won’t it be information overload for the readers?
I'll probably get into it. I used to try to find the opening for SCOTUS reform and got well versed in the procedural processes of their decision making, abd the structures by which the operation of the Judicial Branch is controlled and behaviors within the organization are enforced. And over two years the closed off every chance and walked away from every opportunity for internal reform...and by the way reinforced the freedom of the Executive Branch to nullify parts of the Constitution at will abd without consequences.
I'm definitely going to do something like that again with ICE.
I'm going to comprehend theur authority structure, explore theur internal standards, and find out what they are doing with people in custody and how the overarching structure for expansion functions, and so arrive at the means by which states, institutions, and individuals can participate in cracking those moving parts enough to get a mental and legal handle on the process of stopping ICE from operating, and doing the stopping in an entirely legal manner. I will do it for six months, so if nothing else works in the meantime, I may have something useful for those who are ready to persist.
I look at the regime’s removal numbers with a jaundiced eye. In our house, one of our favorite sayings is, “I call bullshit.”
If they are removing people who have not actually left the country then where have they removed them to?
This is why habeas corpus hearings were invented.
Translate the original Latin to English.
Really appreciate the nested diagram approach for breaking down these enforcement categories. The visual showing whats missing in the data is almost more powerful than the original diagram itself. I've done similar data transparency work in healthcare and the "show your work" principle applies universally. Definitional clarity mattres so much when you're trying to compare across time periods or sources.
The visual contrast of the missing data sources across the two versions of the diagram was very helpful, thank you!
Before we even get to real "deportation" figures, is there anything useful to be done about arrests, releases from arrest, and custody. You have brilliantly dug in on the output from a system. But no understanding is complete without comprehension of inputs and processing. For most types of law enforcement, all that data usually becomes public, and is fairly accurate, even if the PRESENTATION FORMAT favors the operator of the system. But not in this case, and I find that a disturbing change.
I’ve spend way too much time analyzing ICE detention data for my articles. It is not for the feint of heart🤪
Use of ICE data and statistics when writing about the immigration system.
When you find errors in ICE government data do you still trust the information? Finding one error is one thing. Finding the same type of error at the same ICE facility, something is wrong. In my case, it’s book in and book out date errors on ICE detention stays at a Hold Room facility. Do I chalk it up to shoddy record keeping, acknowledge the errors and move on? ICE data is the crucial element on reporting the trump regime’s draconian immigration system. Should I show detention stays with ICE errors as an example and of what I found to illustrate my point? With this detention facility it’s a pattern not happenstance. That is part of the story.
So, here’s my quandary. Do I show all the data with the errors? If I do, won’t it be information overload for the readers?
Is questioning the data enough?
I'll probably get into it. I used to try to find the opening for SCOTUS reform and got well versed in the procedural processes of their decision making, abd the structures by which the operation of the Judicial Branch is controlled and behaviors within the organization are enforced. And over two years the closed off every chance and walked away from every opportunity for internal reform...and by the way reinforced the freedom of the Executive Branch to nullify parts of the Constitution at will abd without consequences.
I'm definitely going to do something like that again with ICE.
I'm going to comprehend theur authority structure, explore theur internal standards, and find out what they are doing with people in custody and how the overarching structure for expansion functions, and so arrive at the means by which states, institutions, and individuals can participate in cracking those moving parts enough to get a mental and legal handle on the process of stopping ICE from operating, and doing the stopping in an entirely legal manner. I will do it for six months, so if nothing else works in the meantime, I may have something useful for those who are ready to persist.
What I WANT to do is write musjc.