IJTI

Immigration Justice Transparency Initiative

Habeas Dockets

Driven by a massive surge in unlawful immigration detentions, thousands of urgent habeas corpus cases are filed every month. These critical court records are legally public yet blocked from online access. Our project, Habeas Dockets, brings these restricted documents back into public view.

Habeas Dockets is Now a Nonprofit

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Statistics for immigrant habeas cases filed since 2025

To help journalists, advocates, and the public track the scale of immigrant habeas corpus filings, we are making our internal statistical tracking available to everyone. This is a convenient way to see the volume of cases we are observing on the ground. We have created a publicly accessible Google Spreadsheet

By John Kyle Cronan
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