American Immigration Council — A moment to demand accountability

American Immigration Council — A moment to demand accountability

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accountability, democratic values that are pillars of our nation.    Every day, we’re witnessing what happens when a government chooses to operate in the shadows. One of the most disturbing consequences of the Trump administration’s veil of secrecy during its first term has been the family separation crisis.  
American Immigration Council — ICE Is Using AI to Track Americans

American Immigration Council — ICE Is Using AI to Track Americans

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Mission Creep: AI Surveillance at DHS Crosses Dangerous Line Into Tracking Americans The artificial intelligence (AI) tools built to guard America’s borders are now extending their policing powers into America’s neighborhoods. What began as AI-powered immigration enforcement confined primarily to our southern border is rapidly becoming something else: a quiet expansion of government surveillance into everyday life.
American Immigration Council — Local Economies Contract as Immigration Enforcement Expands

American Immigration Council — Local Economies Contract as Immigration Enforcement Expands

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Seven months into President Trump’s term, immigration enforcement operations continue to ramp up, and the broader economic impacts are beginning to come into view. Rather than focus on the “worst of the worst,” the Trump administration has increasingly targeted worksites for immigration raids, picking up delivery drivers, street vendors, farmworkers, meatpackers, and others working in industries across the country.
American Immigration Council — Trump’s $170 billion immigration gamble

American Immigration Council — Trump’s $170 billion immigration gamble

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Trump Creates New System to Impose Millions in Fines on Undocumented Immigrants Under a new system put in place by the Trump administration on June 27, immigration officers may be able to impose penalties of millions of dollars on certain undocumented immigrants, putting them at risk not only of deportation but of crushing financial debt.
American Immigration Council — What is going on with birthright citizenship?

American Immigration Council — What is going on with birthright citizenship?

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LATEST ANALYSIS Immigrants’ Experiences Differ Wildly Depending on Which State They Live InThe Trump administration’s highly visible immigration enforcement efforts are impacting immigrants across the country – be it through the arrest and detention of immigrants or through the chilling effects these operations have on immigrant communities. 
American Immigration Council — Nearly $80 Billion for Interior Enforcement

American Immigration Council — Nearly $80 Billion for Interior Enforcement

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In-State Tuition Policies for Undocumented Students Change Lives. I Should Know—Mine Changed for the Better The Texas Dream Act was signed into law in 2001, years before I ever walked across the stage at my high school graduation in 2014. I was five, maybe six at the time, probably watching Barney and playing with Barbies, completely unaware that a policy signed by then-Governor Rick Perry would one day allow me to attend college.   
American Immigration Council — As refugee numbers around the world climb, Trump doubles down

American Immigration Council — As refugee numbers around the world climb, Trump doubles down

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Trump Administration Abruptly Stopped Processing Green Card Applications Filed by Asylees, Refugees. A FOIA Request Seeks Answers The public needs further clarity as to why the government targeted particularly vulnerable populations and how it plans to implement this suspension. The suspension will likely lead to extreme delays or denials of green cards for asylees and refugees with little explanation to the American people or the applicants.  
American Immigration Council — USCIS Stops Processing Some Green Card Applications

American Immigration Council — USCIS Stops Processing Some Green Card Applications

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Trump Administration Terminates CHNV Program, Impacting More Than a Half-Million Immigrants The Department of Homeland Security announced in the Federal Register that it was revoking humanitarian parole for hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in the United States legally under the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan parole program (CHNV). 
American Immigration Council — Over 200 Venezuelans ‘disappeared’ to El Salvador prison

American Immigration Council — Over 200 Venezuelans ‘disappeared’ to El Salvador prison

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On March 22, the Trump administration issued a memo, directing the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to take disciplinary and punitive action against attorneys practicing in our national courts. While the memo is broad, it takes aim at immigration lawyers, pro bono attorneys representing asylum seekers in immigration court, and organizations (such as the American Immigration Council) that challenge the federal government’s immigration policies in court.  
American Immigration Council — Why Trump’s Use of the Alien Enemies Act Matters for America

American Immigration Council — Why Trump’s Use of the Alien Enemies Act Matters for America

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LATEST ANALYSIS Why Trump’s Use of the Alien Enemies Act Matters for America The Trump administration’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act has been held up in court for now, amid an escalating legal battle over the government’s compliance with a judicial order. But the importance of the Alien Enemies Act declaration isn’t just because of the court battle, or because the first planeload of deportees was sent to provide forced labor in a prison in El Salvador. If the Trump administration prevails, it will be allowed to resume deportations of Venezuelan men under the act—to El Salvador or any other country that will take them—without giving them any chance of a hearing or even the opportunity to know the evidence against them.
American Immigration Council — Healthcare Shortages Grip the Country

American Immigration Council — Healthcare Shortages Grip the Country

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 LATEST ANALYSIS  States with Healthcare Shortages Turn to Foreign-Trained Doctors, Showing Bipartisan Immigration Policies Benefit All At a time when immigration policy remains one of the most divisive issues in American politics, an area of bipartisan agreement has emerged: expanding licensure pathways for international medical graduates.  
American Immigration Council — USCIS Suffers Extraneous DOGE Cuts While ICE Expands

American Immigration Council — USCIS Suffers Extraneous DOGE Cuts While ICE Expands

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While Federal Firings Focus on Immigration Processing, Funding for Immigration Enforcement Expands In recent weeks, significant personnel reductions throughout the federal government supposedly made in the name of eliminating “waste” have caused concerns about the government’s ability to continue providing timely services. Agencies that provide immigration-related services have not been spared from these cuts, which may lead to reduction in services and increased delays across the immigration system
American Immigration Council’s ‘This Week in Immigration’ — Trump’s Mass Child Deportation Plan

American Immigration Council’s ‘This Week in Immigration’ — Trump’s Mass Child Deportation Plan

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 LATEST ANALYSIS  State, Federal Policies Escalate Attacks on Immigrant Children Federal and state policy efforts targeting immigrant kids are on the rise. The new wave of cruelty includes plans that plainly violate existing law. Many of these attacks seem designed to tee up court battles intended to weaken the rights and wellbeing of children in the United States.  
American Immigration Council — This Week in Immigration

American Immigration Council — This Week in Immigration

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LATEST ANALYSIS Sending Migrants to Guantánamo Bay Is a Costly, Optics-Driven Shift in Immigration Detention President Trump ordered the Secretary of Homeland Security to expand immigration detention at Naval Station Guantánamo Bay, Cuba to house up to 30,000 people. Since then, U.S. Immigration & and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has transferred at least two flights of migrants from the United States to its detention facility there.