"As the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration continues, keeping up with Immigrations and Custom Enforcement can feel like navigating a maze. From stories of agents raiding worksites and taking children in broad daylight to reported plans for new detention centers, the daily onslaught of alarming news makes it difficult to see the full picture of ICE's actions at any given moment."
"Data journalist Michael Sparks is working on a solution. Sparks is a cartographer and coding editor at the Outlaw Ocean Project, a nonprofit journalism organization producing investigative stories about human rights, labor, and environmental concerns at sea. He's applied skills from that role to create a new investigative database, "The Machinery of Mass Detention: A Record of What Has Been Lost," designed as a centralized place to get updates on ICE's movements."
"The database, which is housed at icetracking.org, includes continuously updating sections that track statistics like the total number of people currently detained by the U.S., the percentage of people held in ICE facilities with no criminal record, and the number of people who have died in ICE custody in the past month and year. The information is presented in succinct sections with citations from major news outlets that are easily fact-checked."
Immigration enforcement under the Trump administration has produced frequent alarming events, including worksite raids, child detentions in daylight, and plans for new detention centers, obscuring overall understanding of ICE activity. Michael Sparks, a cartographer and coding editor at the Outlaw Ocean Project, built an investigative database titled 'The Machinery of Mass Detention: A Record of What Has Been Lost' at icetracking.org as a centralized resource. The database continuously updates statistics such as current detainee counts, percentage without criminal records, and recent deaths in custody. Entries include succinct, cited sections drawn from major news outlets to enable easy fact-checking and macro-level tracking.
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