Ninety-six percent of deportation orders went to people from nonwhite-majority countries from 1895 through 2022, according to researchers at University of California Los Angeles.

In a project called Mapping Deportations, released last week in a collaboration between the School of Law’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy and Million Dollar Hoods, the researchers found that the creation of U.S. immigration enforcement laws and policies has a deep history of racism that continues today.

“That number is far too high to be random,” said Mariah Tso, one of the researchers on the project. “And it’s not random. The numbers are a reflection of policies and racism.”

The researchers published an interactive map that shows where the people who received the deportation orders are from, along with

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