Indiana, District 3

Indiana, District 3

Comment on DHS Proposed Rule to Drastically Expand the Definition and Collection of Biometrics

Comment on DHS Proposed Rule to Drastically Expand the Definition and Collection of Biometrics

The American Immigration Council, the Immigration Defense Clinic at Colorado Law, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association, submitted a comment in opposition to the Department of Homeland Security proposed rule on the "Collection and Use of Biometrics by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services." Read More

Summary of Proposed Changes to Student and Exchange Visitor Admissions Process by DHS

Summary of Proposed Changes to Student and Exchange Visitor Admissions Process by DHS

This document provides a summary of the Department of Homeland Security’s September 25, 2020, Proposed Rule, “Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media.” The summary explains the changes DHS is proposing… Read More

Comment on Executive Office for Immigration Review Proposed Rule Regarding Appeal Procedures and Administrative Closure

Comment on Executive Office for Immigration Review Proposed Rule Regarding Appeal Procedures and Administrative Closure

The American Immigration Council and the American Immigration Lawyers Association, through their joint initiative, the Immigration Justice Campaign, submitted this comment in opposition to the proposed rule, “Appellate Procedures and Decisional Finality in Immigration Proceedings; Administrative Closure.” The rule would strip the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) of… Read More

Letter Requesting 60-Day Comment Period on Proposed Rule Expanding Collection of Biometrics

Letter Requesting 60-Day Comment Period on Proposed Rule Expanding Collection of Biometrics

This new rule will increase the total number of people who are required to submit biometric data from 3.9 million currently to 6.07 million—an increase of more than 60%. Read More

Statement for the House Committee on Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship Hearing on

Statement for the House Committee on Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship Hearing on “Oversight of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services”

The American Immigration Council submitted a written statement to the House Committee on Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship for a July 29, 2020 hearing on “Oversight of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.” The statement shares the Council’s analysis of the true causes of USCIS’s $1.2 billion budget shortfall, including… Read More

Statement for the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship Hearing “Policy Changes and Processing Delays at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.”

Statement for the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship Hearing “Policy Changes and Processing Delays at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.”

The statement highlights the Council’s concerns regarding systemic U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services delays in responding to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Read More

Statement for the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security on

Statement for the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security on “Another Surge of Illegal Immigrants Along the Southwest Border: Is this the Obama Administration’s New Normal?”

The statement shares our analysis and research regarding the children and families that have fled Central American violence to the United States. Read More

Statement for the Senate Judiciary Committee on

Statement for the Senate Judiciary Committee on “Oversight of the Administration’s Misdirected Immigration Enforcement Policies: Examining the Impact on Public Safety and Honoring the Victims”

The statement highlights that immigrants are less likely to be serious criminals than the native-born and that high rates of immigration are associated with lower rates of violent crimes and property crimes. Read More

Statement for the Senate Homeland and Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on

Statement for the Senate Homeland and Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on “The 2014 Humanitarian Crisis at our Border: A Review of the Government’s Response to Unaccompanied Minors One Year Later”

The statement highlights our revised report, A Guide to Children Arriving at the Border: Laws, Policies and Responses (June 2015), which explains why children are fleeing their homes in Central America, what happens to the children once they are in U.S. custody, and what the government has done in response. Read More

Statement for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on

Statement for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on “Ongoing Migration from Central America: An Examination of FY2015 Apprehensions”

The statement shares our research and analysis regarding the children and families that have fled Central American violence to the United States. Read More

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