Border Enforcement

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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Impugnando el Cierre del Acceso al Asilo en los Puertos de Entrada

Impugnando el Cierre del Acceso al Asilo en los Puertos de Entrada

El 20 de enero de 2025, la Administración Trump canceló el acceso al proceso de asilo estadounidense en los puertos de entrada de la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México. Ese mismo día, canceló aproximadamente 30,000 citas de inspección en los puertos, programadas a través de la aplicación móvil CBP… Read More

Senate Approves Unprecedented Spending for Mass Deportation, Ignoring What’s Broken in our Immigration System

Senate Approves Unprecedented Spending for Mass Deportation, Ignoring What’s Broken in our Immigration System

Washington DC, July 1, 2025 — On July 1, the U.S. Senate passed a budget reconciliation bill that includes an unprecedented allocation of funds for immigration detention and enforcement while simultaneously stripping healthcare from millions of Americans. The bill, passed today with Vice President JD Vance contributing the tie-breaking vote,… Read More

Challenging the Shutdown of Asylum Access at Ports of Entry

Challenging the Shutdown of Asylum Access at Ports of Entry

On June 11, 2025, asylum seekers, Al Otro Lado, and Haitian Bridge Alliance filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California to challenge the asylum shutdown policy and the cancellation of CBP One appointments. Read More

At Graduation Time, ICE Targets Young Dreamers

At Graduation Time, ICE Targets Young Dreamers

As young people and their families are celebrating graduations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been ramping up enforcement across the country. One new tactic: arresting teenage students. Marcelo, a member of his high school volleyball team and the school band, who has attended Milford, Massachusetts schools since he… Read More

Asylum Seekers Challenge Trump’s Asylum Shutdown Policy

Asylum Seekers Challenge Trump’s Asylum Shutdown Policy

People fleeing persecution and torture in their home countries have joined immigrant rights organizations to challenge the Trump administration’s unlawful shutdown of asylum along the U.S.-Mexico border. Read More

Trump Travel Ban Will Have Severe Economic, Humanitarian Costs

Trump Travel Ban Will Have Severe Economic, Humanitarian Costs

These travel bans do nothing to make us safer or more prosperous: they harm our economy and indiscriminately punish immigrants who otherwise qualify to come to the United States legally. Read More

Seeking Records about DHS’s Renewed Mass Influx Declaration and Deputization of State and Local Law Enforcement as Immigration Officers

Seeking Records about DHS’s Renewed Mass Influx Declaration and Deputization of State and Local Law Enforcement as Immigration Officers

Council and ACLU-MI file a FOIA request for records about the basis of the DHS Secretary’s renewed mass influx determination and the supervision and training of state and local law enforcement officers acting as immigration officers thanks to this determination. Read More

What's in the 2025 Reconciliation Bill So Far? 

What’s in the 2025 Reconciliation Bill So Far? 

Analysis of the immigration and border-related spending recommendations for reconciliation measures approved in the House Judiciary, Homeland Security, and Armed Services Committees in FY 2025. Read More

Attorneys & Advocates Discuss the Harms of the Trump Administration’s Forced Disappearances to El Salvador

Attorneys & Advocates Discuss the Harms of the Trump Administration’s Forced Disappearances to El Salvador

Since March 15, the Trump administration has disappeared over 280 people to a notorious prison in El Salvador, the CECOT, well-known for its abusive conditions and use of torture. Read More

Investigating ICE’s Changes to Parole Policies and Other Implementation of President Trump’s Day One Immigration Actions

Investigating ICE’s Changes to Parole Policies and Other Implementation of President Trump’s Day One Immigration Actions

This FOIA request seeks all memoranda, musters, guidance, and other similar records in the implementation of the “Securing Our Borders” Executive Order and “Guaranteeing the States Protection Against Invasion” Presidential Proclamation. Read More

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