| Latest Analysis I Just Finished a Life-Changing Semester Abroad. But Thanks to Trump’s Policies, I’m Afraid Other Students Won’t Have the Same Opportunity. After a bittersweet goodbye, I returned to the U.S. in May. Yet while I still was ecstatic over the life-changing experience I had just concluded abroad, the Trump administration was increasing its efforts to target international students wanting to study in the U.S. International students are now increasingly prevented from having the same educational and personal opportunities that I, a U.S. citizen, had just been able to access. |
| Facts You Should Know The reconciliation spending bill known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which was signed into law the first week of July, impacts people who file taxes with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN), including undocumented individuals. The OBBB prohibits the families of an estimated 2.6 million children who do not have at least one parent with a Social Security number from receiving the Child Tax Credit (CTC). It also makes permanent the requirement that children must have Social Security numbers to claim the CTC (which was set to expire at the end of this year). These changes will have devastating effects on the U.S. citizen children in these families. In this recently updated fact sheet, the American Immigration Council explains what ITINs are, who has them, and their various purposes. Read more: The Facts About the Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) |
| Across the NationIn 2022, the American Immigration Council’s Center for Inclusion and Belonging created the Belonging Innovation Lab Fellowship to support and strengthen groups working to bring people together and build belonging in communities across the United States. The Fellowship was designed to recognize and reinforce the vital work being done by small, local nonprofit organizations—from colleges and literacy centers to mutual aid societies and community agricultural initiatives. The Council’s new report, Transforming Together, celebrates the Belonging Innovation Lab Fellows’ extraordinary work building community and belonging, and elevates their takeaways to help others learn. Read more: Transforming Together Quote of the Week“ICE will have more funding in the coming years than any other federal law enforcement agency, according to Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at pro-immigrant American Immigration Council… ‘It makes ICE a higher-funded law enforcement agency than the entire FBI, ATF, DEA, US Marshals Service and Bureau of Prisons combined,’ Reichlin-Melnick explained.” — Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, for CNN |
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