# Patch Notes #007: Immigration Source Appendix

Version: v0.1 public source appendix
Date: 2026-07-03
Status: Baseline source list, not final evidence review.

## Official Data

- DHS Immigration Statistics: https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics
- DHS Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook
- CBP Southwest Land Border Encounters: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters
- CBP Nationwide Encounters: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters
- USCIS Immigration and Citizenship Data: https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/immigration-and-citizenship-data
- USCIS Asylum Division Quarterly Stakeholder Meeting Data: https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-and-asylum/asylum/asylum-division-quarterly-stakeholder-meeting
- DOJ EOIR Adjudication Statistics: https://www.justice.gov/eoir/adjudication-statistics
- State Department Visa Statistics: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-statistics.html

## Analysis And Secondary Trackers

- Congressional Budget Office, Immigration: https://www.cbo.gov/topics/immigration
- Migration Policy Institute, U.S. Immigration Policy Program: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/us-immigration-policy-program
- TRAC Immigration Court Backlog Tool: https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/court_backlog/

## Source Rules For This Issue

- Use official data for counts, categories, and administrative flow where possible.
- Use secondary trackers only when official data is unavailable, delayed, or hard to interpret.
- Separate encounters, admissions, grants, pending cases, removals, overstays, and population estimates.
- Avoid using a single number to imply immigration as a whole.
- Avoid individual legal, benefits, travel, enforcement, or evasion guidance.