Deportation Tracker is a public monitoring project that compiles and visualizes U.S. immigration enforcement and deportation activity. The platform collects publicly available data, reporting, and community-submitted information to document deportations, removals, and enforcement patterns in a way that is understandable to the public.
Immigration enforcement is often opaque by design. After detention, individuals may be transferred, processed through removal proceedings, and deported with minimal public visibility. Families frequently struggle to understand what happened, when a removal occurred, or whether legal intervention was still possible.
Deportation Tracker helps close that information gap by organizing enforcement data into a usable monitoring system. The platform allows advocates, journalists, and community defense groups to follow patterns of removals and identify spikes in enforcement activity.
This resource is especially useful for:
• immigrant legal advocacy groups
• journalists documenting enforcement trends
• community defense and rapid response networks
• policy researchers and civil rights organizations
• families trying to understand deportation timelines
For organizers, the data can reveal coordinated operations or regional surges in removals. For communities, it helps transform rumors into verifiable information, which is critical during periods of increased enforcement.