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Immigration researchers, check out @TRACReports' amazing data 👇👇 https://t.co/b3UkYtxJ1A

Immigration researchers, check out @TRACReports' amazing data 👇👇 https://t.co/b3UkYtxJ1A

PSA: TRAC Updates All Immigration Court Data Tools Through December 2020

Out of a sense of urgency for the immigration policy community & the incoming Biden adm, we updated our immigration court data tools faster than usual. (thread)

List of tools here: https://t.co/8xoWCeiQbD

PSA: TRAC Updates All Immigration Court Data Tools Through December 2020

Out of a sense of urgency for the immigration policy community & the incoming Biden adm, we updated our immigration court data tools faster than usual. (thread)

List of tools here: https://t.co/8xoWCeiQbD

@TRACReports provides perspective on immigration policy and immigrant rights advocacy. @ackocher https://t.co/FFTGJWke11

Victoria, let me be the first on behalf of TRAC and the FOIA Project to say how much we appreciate the work of Reveal over the years. #FOIAStrong https://t.co/PjDnsVSR8K

The @nytimes is an incredibly important advocate for government transparency and accountability. FOIA takes a village, so please pass along our heartfelt gratitude from @TRACReports/@foiaproject to the entire team at the New York Times. @charlie_savage #FOIA https://t.co/hKP6HLnxLB

The @nytimes is an incredibly important advocate for government transparency and accountability. FOIA takes a village, so please pass along our heartfelt gratitude from @TRACReports/@foiaproject to the entire team at the New York Times. @charlie_savage #FOIA https://t.co/hKP6HLnxLB

Victoria, let me be the first on behalf of TRAC and the FOIA Project to say how much we appreciate the work of Reveal over the years. #FOIAStrong https://t.co/PjDnsVSR8K

A #FOIA backlog of 27 months for a single 65-page document on its own is a lack of transparency, but the fact that the @FBI seems to struggle with math (27 months from November 2019 is February 2022, not April 2023) is troubling. (I'll give them a pass for misspelling my name.) pic.twitter.com/Yf8drZVgD2

Well done, @BuzzFeedNews. Glad @TRACReports (@SyracuseU/@NewhouseSU/@WhitmanatSU) was able to highlight your important FOIA efforts. https://t.co/aKDyE84Zzp

And thank you to @ackocher and his team at @TRACReports for the data analysis!

We're really excited at @foiaproject to follow @JasonLeopold's and @BuzzFeedNews's evolution into a FOIA Dream Team. Our very detailed FOIA litigators report will be out later this week, updated through the end of 2020 (not just FY2020) with *20 years* of data. #FOIA https://t.co/V462vwlos2

We found that Jason Leopold and Buzzfeed filed TONS of incredibly valuable FOIA lawsuits - more than anyone else in our study. https://t.co/Jy0Ra6JcYQ

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Over the course of Trump's presidency, @BuzzFeedNews filed more #FOIA suits than any other news organization in the US, per @TRACReports.@JasonLeopold filed more than any other single reporter.

Here are the biggest secrets we pried loose.https://t.co/vbxkU4aGmh@mvtopic

Follow the FOIA Project for research & case updates about the Freedom of Information Act. We are making some changes in the new year and expanding our online engagement. If you’re looking for the most up-to-date information about federal FOIA cases, go to https://t.co/ga9MKNAqUz.

Do you have an Ellis Island story in your family? Please retweet and share your story as part of my project to share information about the history of Ellis Island, which opened on this day in 1892.

If you are doing research on immigration, either as an academic or as a journalist, but you can’t do a lot of field work, TRAC has gobs of untapped data that you can access through our TRAC Fellows program. Reach out for more information.

In November 2020, Immigration Judges decided 1,985 asylum cases. They denied about 71%, granted about 29%, and granted other forms of relief in about 1% of cases. This is on par for FY 2020 when the denial rate was about 71% for the year.

I really enjoyed working with @hannahdreier from the @washingtonpost on this incredibly important and heartbreaking story. https://t.co/jXxjWnuwCw