The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is expanding, but the public data that tracks it is drying up.

The Trump administration likes to promote its immigration enforcement agenda through numbers, with ambitious goals to deport 1 million people, report zero releases at the U.S.-Mexico border and arrest thousands of alleged gang members.

For all the boasting, the administration has been releasing less reliable, carefully vetted data than its predecessors on a signature policy that has become one of the most contentious of Trump’s second term.

The gap in information and a loss of figures from an office that has tracked immigration data back to the 1800s have left researchers, advocates, lawyers and journalists without important statistics to hold the Republican administration to account.

  • MasterBlaster
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    3 days ago

    Yes. That’s the plan. You don’t think they fired all the people doing the reporting and policing because they were a waste of public money, I hope.

    With no verifiable figures, they can claim anything they want, any time and expect us to believe them because they are the ones seeing it and nobody can prove otherwise. That’s all we need to know. They have everything under control.