Rice students build ICE tracker map to monitor nationwide immigration enforcement

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Jack Vu and Abby Manuel had been part of a volunteer program teaching weekly computer and Spanish classes to kids in Houston’s East End for more than a year, when one day the kids stopped showing up.

Masked federal immigration officers had been making their presence felt in the Lawndale-Wayside neighborhoods, Vu said, prompting families to shelter inside. “We were reading books, throwing the football with the kids, we knew their names, and they knew our names, and it was the fear that was keeping them away,” he said.

The map includes a continuous feed of news from various online sources, including from both right- and left-leaning media outlets, and the immigration database, TRAC.

Visitors to the map tracker can use a cursor to track ICE operations using data from county jails and registers inspection reports at detention centers across the U.S.
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ICE TRACKER

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1. This makes me smile

I was accepted to Rice but my national merit scholarship would not go as far there as the school I went to. The first year that they brought back College Bowl the regionals were at rice. My team went there and got our butts beat by Rice and the Tulane Law Review (for that year there was no limits on how many grad students could be on a team).

Again, I applaud these Rice students.

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2. Bookmarked and passed on!

This is great! Kudos to these kids!!!