Press Releases

Press Releases

The Biden Administration Reestablishes the White House Task Force on New Americans

The Biden Administration Reestablishes the White House Task Force on New Americans

The American Immigration Council Responds to the Biden Administration's relaunch of the White House Task Force on New Americans. Read More

Advocates File Lawsuit to Demand That ICE Make Immigration Bond Procedures Publicly Available on Its Website

Advocates File Lawsuit to Demand That ICE Make Immigration Bond Procedures Publicly Available on Its Website

The Council alongside other advocates has filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to compel U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to publish on its website guidelines and procedures explaining how the agency processes bonds for the release of individuals in detention. Read More

AILA and the American Immigration Council Respond to a Bipartisan Framework of Immigration Reform Compromises

AILA and the American Immigration Council Respond to a Bipartisan Framework of Immigration Reform Compromises

In response to news of a new bi-partisan framework of immigration reform compromises from Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) —the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and the American Immigration Council issued the following statement. Read More

AILA and the American Immigration Council Respond to Supreme Court Oral Arguments in U.S. v. Texas

AILA and the American Immigration Council Respond to Supreme Court Oral Arguments in U.S. v. Texas

In response to the Supreme Court of the United States hearing oral arguments in the case, U.S. v. Texas -- a dispute over the Biden Administration’s authority to set immigration policy, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and the American Immigration Council (AIC) have issued the following statement. Read More

Judge Strikes Down Title 42 Policy: A Long Overdue Step Toward Rebuilding the US Asylum System

Judge Strikes Down Title 42 Policy: A Long Overdue Step Toward Rebuilding the US Asylum System

Judge Emmet G. Sullivan issued a decision vacating and ending Title 42, more than two and a half years after the purported public health policy went into effect. Read More

New Research Shows Immigrants Contributed $8.6 Billion to the El Paso Metro GDP

New Research Shows Immigrants Contributed $8.6 Billion to the El Paso Metro GDP

The new report is the first in a series of five reports highlighting immigrants' positive economic impact on Texas border communities. Read More

New Reports Shows Immigrants in the Medina Region Paid Over $168 Million in Taxes and Held Nearly $468 Million in Spending Power in 2019

New Reports Shows Immigrants in the Medina Region Paid Over $168 Million in Taxes and Held Nearly $468 Million in Spending Power in 2019

New research released by the American Immigration Council—in partnership with the Greater Medina Chamber of Commerce, and Ohio Business for Immigration Solutions (OBIS) shows that immigrants contributed $900 million to the Medina, Ohio region’s GDP in 2019. Read More

Announcing the Newest Cohort of the Gateways for Growth Challenge

Announcing the Newest Cohort of the Gateways for Growth Challenge

The Gateways for Growth Challenge announces its fifth cohort, forming a network of over 75 localities across 35 states deploying economic research and multi-sector welcoming plans to forward inclusion and economic opportunity for all. Read More

Biden Administration Pairs Humanitarian Aid and H-2B Visa Expansion with Trump-Style Border Enforcement in Venezuelan Response Plan

Biden Administration Pairs Humanitarian Aid and H-2B Visa Expansion with Trump-Style Border Enforcement in Venezuelan Response Plan

The American Immigration Council alongside responded to the Biden Administration’s announcement of a parole program to protect some Venezuelan nationals with ties to the U.S., expansion of Title 42 to expel Venezuelans who cross the border without prior authorization, and nearly 65,000 added visas under the H-2B program. Read More

Legal Organizations Sue ICE for Illegally Preventing Attorneys from Communicating with Detained Immigrants in Four States

Legal Organizations Sue ICE for Illegally Preventing Attorneys from Communicating with Detained Immigrants in Four States

Several legal services organizations filed a lawsuit today against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for unlawfully preventing attorneys from communicating with immigrants detained in four detention facilities in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Arizona. Read More

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