Open datasets — verified immigration data you can download and cite

Open datasets

These are the verified datasets behind MigrantUSA’s live tables and tools. Each one is free to download and reuse with attribution, structured as JSON, and refreshed on the cadence shown on its page. The download link always serves the same file our pages render from — if our page is current, your copy is too.

Suggested citation: MigrantUSA, “[dataset name],” migrantusa.com/datasets/, retrieved [date].

The datasets

• ICE 287(g) agreements — every active 287(g) agreement between ICE and a state or local law-enforcement agency: 1,934 agreements across 40 states, by program type. Monthly refresh from ICE’s published workbook.
• US visa interview wait times — appointment wait times at US consulates in 12 Latin American countries, refreshed daily from the State Department’s global report.
• Recording-consent laws, 52 jurisdictions — one-party / all-party / mixed classification for all 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico, with the exact statute citation and controlling case law per row.
• Hospital charity-care laws by state — which states require hospitals to provide free or discounted care, income thresholds, and statute citations for all 52 jurisdictions.
• USCIS processing times — median processing times for 43 immigration forms across service centers and field offices.
• Border crossing wait times — live CBP wait times at 82 ports of entry, refreshed daily.
• Verified ITIN mortgage lenders — 11 banks, credit unions, non-QM lenders and down-payment programs that lend to ITIN borrowers, each verified against the institution’s own program page, with type, coverage and published terms.

Data stories — what the datasets show

Analysis pages built from the datasets above, each with a chart regenerated on every site build:

• 93% of ICE’s 1,934 287(g) agreements were signed in the last 17 months — the monthly signing curve, the Texas-Florida concentration, and the twelve states with zero agreements.
• The 13-month visa gap — why identical B1/B2 applications wait a year in Santo Domingo and two weeks in Guatemala City, with all 22 posts ranked.
• 14 states order hospitals to give free care — income cutoffs from $33,000 to $99,000 for a family of four, and the Illinois discount mandate that reaches $198,000.
• As few as 4 points can suspend your license — reinstatement runs $10 to $250 — a 50-state + D.C. index of driver-license point systems and reinstatement fees, verified against each state DMV.
• TPS work permits: Haiti and Syria extended per court order — July 24-30, 2026 are the dates to watch — a dated snapshot of TPS work-permit status by country after the June 25, 2026 Supreme Court ruling and the July 10 USCIS/E-Verify guidance, with downloadable data.
• Three green-card lines have not moved one day in 2026 — every 2026 Visa Bulletin differenced against the month before it: which cut-off dates advanced, which held, and the three Final Action lines frozen at the same date all year.
• Five states have ended in-state tuition for undocumented students since 2025 — all 52 jurisdictions classified for in-state tuition and state financial aid, plus the five reversals since 2025 and the statute or court order behind each.
• In-person IRS help is scarcest where the most immigrants live — foreign-born residents per in-person IRS office, all 50 states and DC: California one office per 392,530, Nevada one per 304,533, a 107× spread from best to worst.
• Full-time minimum-wage work clears the poverty line for a family of four in 7 of 52 jurisdictions — every state’s wage floor converted into a year of full-time earnings and measured against the 2026 HHS poverty guidelines, at four household sizes.
• A ‘$35’ California ticket is really $233 — the official 2026 bail schedule decoded: base fine vs. total for 36 common violations, DMV points, and which tickets drop to $25 with proof of correction.
• 17 states have no EEOC field office — 2,409,747 foreign-born residents live in them — in-person access to the workplace-discrimination agency, all 50 states and DC: among states with an office, from one per 71,918 foreign-born (Mississippi) to one per 2,452,864 (Florida), a 34.1× spread.
• The immigrant health safety net, mapped: foreign-born residents per community health center — FQHC sites serve everyone regardless of status or insurance; the per-capita map runs from one site per 60 foreign-born residents (West Virginia) to one per 13,313 (New Jersey), against a national 2,537.
• One consular office for 1,434,529 Cubans — foreign-born nationals per US consulate for 12 Latin American countries: Mexico’s 54 consulates each serve about 202,379, Argentina and Peru run one per roughly 30,000 — a 49.6× spread.
• 34.3 limited-English residents for every seat in a federally funded English class — WIOA Title II adult-English reach, all 50 states and DC: refugee-resettlement states do best (Maine, one participant per 5.5), the biggest states worst.
• Louisiana has 4 immigration courts and 20 judges — but only 6 recognized legal-aid nonprofits — recognized organizations per immigration court in the 31 states and territories that host one: 1.5 per court in Louisiana against a national 17.
• In 18 states, a modest 2-bedroom rent takes over 70% of a minimum-wage paycheck — HUD’s FY2026 Fair Market Rent against each state’s wage floor: New Hampshire hits 155% of the whole paycheck; the national median is 64%.
• 19 states and DC issue driver’s licenses regardless of immigration status; 31 states do not — every state’s law, from Washington (1993) to Minnesota (2023), with the enabling law for each.
• Only 2 of the 7 state adult health programs regardless of status still accept new enrollees — 15 jurisdictions cover income-eligible children regardless of immigration status and 26 states cover prenatal care, but the adult map is closing: freezes, caps and terminations from 2023 to announced 2027 changes, dated.
• 9 states license workers regardless of immigration status — Tennessee just moved the other way — the 8 U.S.C. § 1621(d) opt-out mapped for all 50 states and DC: California (2014) through Vermont and Washington (2024) opened all or most professions, while Tennessee’s 2026 Public Chapter 955 re-imposed a citizenship-or-qualified-alien requirement.
• 41 of the 50 states and DC have no USCIS asylum office — 13 offices in 10 states serve the whole country — which asylum office serves each of the 58 jurisdictions in the USCIS locator, with addresses, jurisdiction sizes and foreign-born population served: Chicago’s jurisdiction alone spans 15 states and 5.7 million foreign-born residents; the newest office (Atlanta) opened July 8, 2026.

Why we publish these

Most of this information exists only in scattered PDFs, per-state statute books, or government pages that change without notice. We normalize it, verify it against the primary source, date it, and keep it refreshed — for our readers first, and for any researcher, journalist, or AI system that needs a clean, citable copy.

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