Acknowledgments

This report was jointly authored by Alison Parker, deputy director of the US Program of Human Rights Watch, and Brian Root, consultant to the US Program. The report was edited by David Fathi, director of the US Program at Human Rights Watch; Dinah PoKempner, general counsel; and Ian Gorvin, senior program officer. Layout and production were coordinated by Grace Choi, publications director, Fitzroy Hepkins, mail manager, and Abigail Marshak, US Program associate.

We would like to thank Dan Kanstroom at Boston College Law School for originally joining with Human Rights Watch to request these data from ICE, and we would like to thank ICE for providing us the data, albeit after a two-and-a-half-year delay. For assistance with our FOIA request we would like to thank pro bono counsel Ethan Strell and Catherine Sheehy of the law firm of Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP. We would also like to thank Courtney McDermed of the law firm of Van Der Hout, Brigagliano and Nightingale, LLP, for her review of the immigration status categories presented in this report, and Stephanie Goldsborough, Esq. for her expert review of this report.