About
This website grew out of a rapid response network of volunteers, working in solidarity of our neighbors swept up in the United States mass deportation pipeline.
In May of 2025, we became aware of an increase of immigration detainees being held in Vermont prisons. We now understand this spike to be caused by Trump's Operation Patriot blitz, which terrorized communities in Massachusetts. Since then, we have been using public data to keep track of people as they are shuffled from facility to facility, to evade due process entitled to immigrants by the Constitution. Every day, we find and re-find people for the purpose of connecting them with loved ones, support networks and legal counsel.
Data Sources
Vermont DOC JailTracker
The Vermont Department of Corrections JailTracker, or "Offender Locator", displays running lists of everyone being checked in and out of Vermont prisons. Each record includes a number of data points, including detention status. A "Hold" status means that the person is being held on behalf of a federal law enforcement agency. This flag indicates someone may have been kidnapped by ICE.
At least once a day, we input all new bookings and releases into an airtable database for research and analysis. We search each name flagged with a hold status using as many of the below tools as necessary.
Research Tools We Use
ICE Locator
The ICE locator allows us to confirm if someone with a hold status is an immigration detainee. When a search is successful, the results may also tell us which detention facility the person is currently located.
DHS VINELink
The DHS VINELink site is a search tool, similar to the ICE locator. The search feature seems less likely to return reliable results than the ICE locator.
Pacer Monitor
PacerMonitor is a national database of court records. It is a paid service, but it can diffinitively confirm or disconfirm that someone is an ICE detainee and also helps us find contact info for immigration lawyers, for the purpose of providing updates about their client's location.
DOJ Press Releases
Checking the Vermont DOJ States Attorney press releases can sometimes be helpful for identifying if someone is facing immigration, or other federal charges. We can also look through press releases in other states for people's names.
Web Search
We can sometimes use a simple web search to figure out whether or not someone is being held on immigration charges.
Social Media
Social media searches are the primary method for finding support networks and family members.
Federal Immigration Data
The Deportation Data Project collects and publishes immigration enforcement data through periodic federal public records requests. We import this data into a database whenever it is made available. This data includes what the federal government claims is all immigration arrests, detentions, and removals between 2023 and October 16th, 2025.
This data demonstrates how ICE is moving people around the country. It is essentially a map of the mass deportation machine, as the New York Times described. It allows us to see the exact path each person takes from facility to facility, from point of arrest until they are either deported or win back their freedom. We cross-reference this data with the Vermont DOC data to fill in gaps on each side of the picture.