Border Enforcement

Migration at the border is a multifaceted issue, challenging the U.S. to secure our borders while upholding the human rights of individuals seeking safety and better opportunities. Balancing national security with compassion and our legal obligations to asylum seekers presents intricate dilemmas, and we collaborate with policymakers to advance bipartisan, action-oriented solutions.

Beyond A Border Solution

America needs durable solutions. These concrete measures can bring orderliness to our border and modernize our overwhelmed asylum system. Read…

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Demanding ICE Provide Essential Data

Demanding ICE Provide Essential Data

The Council submitted an amicus brief explaining why ICE should release usable immigration data. The amicus brief was filed in a case where the ACLU is seeking information about how individuals are impacted by ICE enforcement practices. Read More

Supreme Court Refuses to Stop the Migrant Protection Protocols From Going Back Into Effect

Supreme Court Refuses to Stop the Migrant Protection Protocols From Going Back Into Effect

The Supreme Court refused to block an order to reinstate the Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy. The decision comes after a Texas judge halted the government’s recission of the controversial and illegal program. The Supreme Court’s ruling means that the government must make “best… Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court Decides to Send Asylum Seekers to Danger

The U.S. Supreme Court Decides to Send Asylum Seekers to Danger

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to stay a ruling from a lower Texas court that would force the Biden administration to revive the Migrant Protection Protocols. Read More

Advocates Urge Supreme Court to Stop Revival of Migrant Protection Protocols

Advocates Urge Supreme Court to Stop Revival of Migrant Protection Protocols

Immigration groups and judges urged the U.S. Supreme Court in an amicus brief to stay a Texas court ruling that would force the Biden administration to revive the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) – an illegal policy that forced asylum seekers to await their U.S. court dates in perilous conditions in Mexico. Read More

Council and Partners Urge Supreme Court to Stop Texas Court from Reinstatement of the Migrant Protection Protocols

Council and Partners Urge Supreme Court to Stop Texas Court from Reinstatement of the Migrant Protection Protocols

This amicus brief urges the Supreme Court to stop the reinstatement of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), and halt the lower court's poorly reasoned and factually flawed decision. Read More

TX Court Issues Stunning Order: US Government Can’t Set Priorities for Immigration Enforcement

TX Court Issues Stunning Order: US Government Can’t Set Priorities for Immigration Enforcement

Judge Drew Tipton of the Southern District of Texas on August 19 blocked a set of enforcement priorities the Biden administration had issued in January and February 2021 in an attempt to focus limited enforcement resources. This preliminary injunction will be in effect beginning September 3 unless it is overturned. Read More

Federal Judge Blocks ICE Enforcement Guidelines and Attempts to Upend Prosecutorial Discretion

Federal Judge Blocks ICE Enforcement Guidelines and Attempts to Upend Prosecutorial Discretion

A Texas judge blocked the Biden administration’s immigration enforcement priorities. The decision was issued in a case challenging ICE’s enforcement activities outside the scope laid out in the Feb. 18 enforcement memo. Read More

Advocates Submit Brief to Stop the Revival of Migrant Protection Protocols

Advocates Submit Brief to Stop the Revival of Migrant Protection Protocols

The Council and partner immigration groups and former immigration judges filed an amicus brief to stop the reinstatement of the Migrant Protection Protocols. Read More

Council and Partners Submit Amicus Brief to Stop the Reinstatement of the Migrant Protection Protocols

Council and Partners Submit Amicus Brief to Stop the Reinstatement of the Migrant Protection Protocols

This brief highlights the court's many factual errors about MPP in its decision to reinstate the program. Read More

Federal Court Orders Biden to Restore the ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program

Federal Court Orders Biden to Restore the ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program

The Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also known as the “Remain in Mexico” program, inflicted extreme harm on vulnerable people seeking asylum at the border beginning in January 2019. Thankfully, President Biden suspended the program on the day he took office. However, a new decision from a federal… Read More

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