Austin Kocher
Dr. Austin Kocher is a Research Assistant Professor in the Newhouse School of Public Communication and a researcher with the Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a research institute at Syracuse University that uses Freedom of Information Act requests to study the federal government. Key areas of Kocher’s current research at TRAC include federal immigration detention, enforcement, and deportation, the immigration court system, and trends within the federal criminal and civil courts.
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Drive migration and autocracy in Central America.
FDA blocks vaccine safety studies amid growing allegations of scientific censorship
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