Trump Administration
The Asylum Turnback Case: From the First Filing to the Supreme Court
After years of jockeying through the courts, on June 25, a 6-3 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the government in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado. First filed in 2017, Al Otro Lado is the Council’s long-running litigation challenging the first Trump administration’s policy of turning back people seeking asylum as they approached ports of entry on… Read More
Texas’ Controversial SB 4 Immigration Law Goes into Effect at a Critical Moment for the State’s Workforce
Texas is embarking on an unprecedented experiment: using state and local law enforcement officers to conduct immigration enforcement and empowering state judges to issue removal “orders” traditionally reserved for the federal government. Nearly three years after Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 4 (SB 4) into law,… Read More
Supreme Court Allows Trump to Strip TPS, Turn Away Asylum Seekers Arriving at the Border in Pair of New Immigration Rulings
Today the U.S. Supreme Court issued two seismic immigration law decisions, ruling 6-3 in the Trump administration’s favor in each case. The first case, Mullin v. Doe, overturns lower court decisions blocking the Trump administration’s move to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for roughly 350,000 Haitians and… Read More
Dreaming in Nightmares: DACA Recipients Increasingly Targeted for Detention and Deportation
In 2012, the lives of hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the U.S. as young children changed dramatically with the creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program – an executive action that provided recipients protection from deportation and renewable work authorization. DACA has… Read More
World Cup Immigration Questions Answered: ICE, Visa Denials, and Iran
“We want to unite the world, and we will unite the world next year…So again, everyone will be welcome, be positive and you will see it will be a great, great celebration of the greatest FIFA World Cup ever.” – FIFA President Gianni Infantino… Read More
The Trump Administration Stopped Processing Certain Green Card Applications. Our FOIA Found What Happened Next.
Under the second Trump administration, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has repeatedly paused the processing of applications for all types of immigration benefits, including applications for legal permanent residency, commonly referred to as adjustment of status or getting your green card. One of the first suspensions occurred between… Read More
New Dashboard Reveals Insights Into USCIS Backlogs and Processing Trends
The U.S. immigration system is broken — it’s a phrase heard often in discussions about the state of immigration in the U.S. Now, a new interactive dashboard from the American Immigration Council allows anyone with an internet connection to better understand our dysfunctional system of legal immigration. … Read More
50 Days Until the World Cup: Travel Bans, ICE, and Iran Cause Uncertainty for Players and Fans
The 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off in exactly 50 days when Mexico takes on South Africa in Mexico City, one of 16 host cities across Mexico, the United States, and Canada. For the 78 games being played in the U.S. — three-quarters of all the tournament’s matches —… Read More
New ICE Arrest Statistics Shed Light on Who the Agency is Targeting in American Communities
President Donald Trump came into office with a promise to carry out mass deportations, with the aim to hit one million deportations per year. While he often claims his administration focuses on “the worst of the worst,” new ICE data released by U.C. Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project reveals the… Read More
16 Million Eligible Immigrant Voters May Help Decide the Winners and Losers of the 2026 Elections
Political campaigns cannot afford to overlook immigrants. A new analysis of 284 congressional districts in the United States finds that naturalized citizens hold substantial political and economic clout, with an estimated 16 million registered immigrant voters in those districts alone. The number of eligible immigrant voters is even… Read More
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