Covid-19 Related Immigration Filings

Early in the pandemic, Theresa Cheng and Joanne Choi joined the project as co-leads of our Immigration Detention Team. In addition to tracking COVID cases and deaths in ICE facilities (an effort that has since been folded into our core data collection: https://uclacovidbehindbars.org/ice), they initially sought to create a data set of court filings related to COVID in immigration detention. For a variety of reasons, it proved very hard to get details on case filings. (In addition to standard legal research techniques, efforts included general outreach to advocates with requests for case information, along with targeted outreach law professors running immigration clinics). Ultimately, we realized that we would be unable to achieve anything like a comprehensive data set. Still, given the challenge of identifying court cases in this space, we thought it worth making available the information on the cases the Immigration Detention Team was able to identify. Additional immigration-detention related filings are also available as part of our Health Is Justice Litigation Hub (https://healthisjustice.org/litigation-hub/).

在疫情初期，Theresa Cheng 和 Joanne Choi 加入我们的项目，担任移民拘留团队的双主。除了追踪ICE设施内的COVID病例和死亡情况（这一工作现已整合至我们的核心数据收集：https://uclacovidbehindbars.org/ice），他们最初旨在创建一个与移民拘留相关的COVID法庭诉讼数据集。由于种种原因，获取案件详情信息变得极为困难。（除了常规的法律研究技巧外，还包括向倡导者广泛联络并请求案件信息，以及针对运营移民诊所的法教授的定向联络）。最终，我们意识到我们无法构建一个全面的数据集。尽管如此，鉴于在此领域识别法庭案件之挑战，我们认为将移民拘留团队能够识别的案件信息公开是有价值的。此外，与移民拘留相关的其他诉讼文件也作为我们健康即正义诉讼中心（https://healthisjustice.org/litigation-hub/）的一部分提供。