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Collect data on TPS (temporary protected status) holders #45

Open geckya opened 6 years ago

geckya commented 6 years ago

Our partners are looking for help getting/analyzing/visualizing data on TPS holders.
Data at the congressional district level (by country of origin) would be best. If we can't get the data at that level of detail, the next best thing would be having the total number of TPS holders in each state, by country of origin.
A few resources with partial examples of what we're looking for: http://jmhs.cmsny.org/index.php/jmhs/article/viewFile/99/90 https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/RS20844.pdf

dkotschessa commented 6 years ago

According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services,, the countries of interest are:

El Salvador Haiti Honduras Nepal Nicaragua Somalia South Sudan Sudan Syria Yemen

From the link @geckya provided in Slack we get El Salvador, Hondurus, and Haiti. So what is left is to try and track down the others country by country if possible.

dkotschessa commented 6 years ago

Numbers for those and other countries appear on page 5: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/RS20844.pdf image

josephpd3 commented 6 years ago

Just finished looking over the linked documents - sorry if anything I mention is overly redundant to the discussion.

It seems like the majority of the information in the reports linked on the TPS ticket was based on data acquired through the Department of Homeland Security, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and The Center for Migration Studies (CMS).

The former had particularly great data for visualizing the distribution of TPS recipients across the states in 2017:

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I'm going to look around as well to see what I can find.

Would a FOIA request be out of the question here? I understand a more consistent source of data is desirable, but getting up-to-date information straight from the DHS, if possible, could be a good step towards validating information we get from more disparate sources.

biskwikman commented 6 years ago

Hey guys I contacted the author of the Congressional Research Service report to ask if she knew where more granular data would be. She said that USCIS doesn't make data lower than the state level public. We could try asking them, but state level might be the best we can get.