Replication of "Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and ICE Reporting Interest: Evidence from a Large-Scale Study of Web Search Data"

Replications and extensions of this article on the relationship between media cues and public interest in reporting suspected unauthorized immigrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The study uses Google Trends and Bing search data, combined with automated content analysis of cable news transcripts.

Replicated figures 2-4, and tables 3-4 using both 2024 Google Trends data and the original data used in the research paper.

Replication

1. Install tidyverse, dbplyr, and lubridate R libraries
2. Run the code from the final_report.Rmd R Markdown file
3. Alternatively, use this link to view the results of the replication without running the code

Data from the paper

The data to entirely reproduce the results paper is available in this repository. For convenience for the user, tidy data is available in the data directory:

• google_trend_search.csv contains google search data for reporting, crime, and welfare topics from 2024
• google_trends_crime.csv contains the original google search data for crime used in the paper
• google_trends_report.csv contains the original google search data for reporting used in the paper
• google_trends_welfare.csv contains the original google search data for welfare used in the paper
• gt_report_daily.csv contains daily google search data for reporting used for Table 4
• gtopic_model_lite.Rdata contains the topic model used for figures 3-4 and table 4

Extensions

Explores critiques and potential additions regarding the data analysis of this paper.