A report from an Ohio immigrant rights advocacy group on Tuesday found errors and discrepancies in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest data that the White House claimed to display live on its new “Aliens” arrest tracking site.
In one example in the report, the Ohio Immigrant Alliance found that the White House site underreports arrests in Ohio by nearly 55% compared to other government data, despite covering a longer period of time, and obscures immigrants’ criminal history. The organization cross-analyzed Immigration and Customs Enforcement data provided to the Deportation Data Project with the data displayed on the White House site to generate its findings.
