Voluntary departures hit record high as detained immigrants lose hope of getting released or winning in court ↗
February 2026A record 28% of detainees gave up their cases and voluntarily departed in 2025, as aslyum and bond grant rates plummeted.
CBS News
Immigration
Demand for high-achiever visas fuels a pay-to-play industry for scientific research and accolades ↗
January 2026A network of services that provide fraudulent credentials and resume padding services for a visa reserved for those at the top of their fields. I appeared on-air to discuss my findings.
Investigative reporting Social media analysisICE detentions of non-criminal immigrants spike; about 8% have violent convictions, analysis of new data shows ↗
June 2025Only 8% of detainees during Trump's first five months back in office had violent crime convictions, my analysis of ICE data found.
Trump's plan to deport millions of immigrants would cost hundreds of billions, CBS News analysis shows ↗
October 2024Apprehending just 1 million people would cost taxpayers $20 billion, my analysis of DHS and EOIR budget data found.
On-air reporting on immigration ↗
2025I scriped and anchored multiple segments for CBS News 24/7 (stremaing platform) on my data reporting.
DOGE / Elon Musk
DOGE says it has canceled thousands of federal contracts, grants and leases. Here's a searchable list ↗
May 2025Auto-updating searchable database tracking contracts DOGE says it canceled.
The X factor: How Trump ally Elon Musk is using social media to prime voter mistrust ahead of 2024 election ↗
October 2024Elon Musk amassed more than 3 billion views on posts containing false or misleading information about election integrity ahead of the 2024 election. I scraped all of Musk's X-posts, used AI to categorize them and fact-checked the claims by hand.
Other
Colleges are slightly less diverse as admissions officers seek ways to adapt post-affirmative action ↗
June 2025Data from over 100 univiersities and colleges give an early indicator that schools are becoming less diverse after the Supreme Court barred race-conscious admissions. I joined a team of reporters in gathering and analyzing the data from the schools individually.
Hundreds of Instagram accounts push graphic real-life violence to millions, CBS News finds ↗
June 2025After Meta claimed to fix a glitch that pushed violent content to users, we found it was still widespread and easily accessible.
Earlier Work
Trapped Under Trucks ↗
FRONTLINE × ProPublica, 2023Deadly underride crashes, in which a car slides underneath the side or rear of a truck, are widely underreported and underregulated, a joint ProPublica and FRONTLINE investigation found.
The Wait Inmates With Mental Illness Endure Because They’re Too Sick For Trial ↗
FRONTLINE × WFAE, 2023From 2016 to 2023, half of those charged with felonies who were deemed too mentally ill to stand trial waited more than 313 days in custody before they could receieve psychiatric treatment, necessary for moving forward with their case. Reaching that number required wrangling messy data from as many counties in North Carolina as possible.
Despite spills and air pollution, fossil fuel companies award CEOs for environmental records ↗
The Washington Post, 2021CEOs received millions in climate-linked bonuses despite continued environmental damage, and consistently moved the goalposts to obtain those bonuses, according to an analysis of SEC records.
The Kindergarten Exodus ↗
In 2020, when the pandemic hit, 10,000 local public schools lost at least 20 percent of their kindergartners, according to an analysis of enrollment at 70,000 public schools across 33 states. I filed public records requests in all 50 states to help obtain this data.
As Mental Health Startup Cerebral Staggers, ADHD Patients Scramble for Meds ↗
MindSite News, 2022After the telehealth app Cerebral came under regulatory fire and stopped prescribing controlled substances, those who had become dependent on it for ADHD medication faced potential withdrawal. I came about this story after building an ML classifier to analyze App Store reviews of teletherapy apps, finding hundreds of users reporting issues like the ones I reported out.
Restricting Abortion Will Cost Women Their Lives ↗
Verywell Health, 2022I adapted a methodology from a scientific paper to examine correlations between state abortion restrictions and maternal mortality, then tested each link for statistical signfiicance. I found that the population living in states with four restrictions experienced mortality rates 27% to 61% higher than those without the policies.