Adam Sawyer
@adamjsawyertan
Tweets about migration, education, and sports. he/him.
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28-05-2018 15:42:15
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Urging The New York Times to engage with its many talented immigration reporters & the many other outside experts on the facts of immigration over past 8 yrs. Journalism on such a polarized issue, with such high stakes & human cost, is too important. Accuracy is our minimum responsibility.
"The San Diego region has what is considered the most international border, drawing people from all over the world." From Andrea Castillo and Koko Nakajima latimes.com/politics/story…
Excited to share that Adam Sawyer and I published a new methods paper today that explains how we are calculating recent detained populations at individual ICE facilities — an elusive but important number! relevant-research.com/work
ICE uses an averaging technique that, in this current moment, leads to an undercount of detainee population at many ICE facilities. For a better approximation of the current number held in custody at your local ICE center, I recommend reading this. austinkocher.substack.com/p/interval-adp…
Congress requires Immigration and Customs Enforcement to publish statistics about its detention centers twice a month. Researchers tracking that data noticed the agency’s most recent report includes data that literally does not add up. w/ Nuha Dolby notus.org/immigration/co…
ICE is currently (officially) using 193 facilities and holding a record 61,226 people, per the latest analysis by Austin Kocher, PhD and Adam Sawyer. austinkocher.substack.com/p/discover-a-d…