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The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse ("TRAC") is an ambitious research center sponsored by the S.I Newhouse School of Public Communications founded in 1989 at Syracuse University in upstate New York. Their mission is to provide individuals and institutions, such as
"Congress, news organizations, public interest groups, businesses, scholars, and lawyers" with extensive and comprehensive data about the "staffing, spending, and enforcement activities of the federal government." TRAC frequently uses the Freedom of Information Act to demand information
about the function of federal agencies and, in doing so, has amassed extensive datasets. With this data, TRAC has created powerful statistical
tools tailored for specific purposes, including those used for data gathering and analysis in this Note. The two main tools used in this Note are the
"Outcomes of Immigration Court Proceedings" tool ("Outcomes Tool") and the "Immigration Court Backlog" tool. These tools allow for the
customization of several parameters to best answer the user's research questions.64 Both tools use data gathered from October 1997 to January
2025.
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