American Immigration Council

WASHINGTON, Mar. 7, 2023 – Over Zero and the Center for Inclusion and Belonging at the American Immigration Council are pleased to announce the launch of a groundbreaking new research tool and accompanying report, “The Belonging Barometer: The State of Belonging in America.”   The Belonging Barometer was used to assess Americans’ experience of belonging, or lack […]

CALIFORNIA, Dec. 8, 2022—The American Immigration Council, Immigrant Legal Defense, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), and the National Bail Fund Network with its local bond fund members NorCal Resist, Prairielands Freedom Fund, and the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information […]

WASHINGTON, May 20, 2022—The A federal judge in Louisiana today blocked the Biden administration’s plans to end Title 42, a public health policy that has allowed the U.S. government to turn people away at the U.S southern border since the start of the pandemic. Under Title 42—which was set to expire by May 23—many asylum […]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2022—The President Biden announced a welcoming and inclusive vision for immigration in a legislative proposal and a series of executive actions signed on his first day in office. But one year into Biden’s presidency, his administration continues some of the most destructive immigration policies that he denounced on the campaign trail while […]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23, 2021—Yesterday a federal court denied preliminary relief in Tony N. v. USCIS, a lawsuit challenging U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ extreme delays and failure to process work permit renewals for asylum seekers. The judge declined to order USCIS to process work permit renewal applications within the 180-day automatic extension of employment authorization. […]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 02, 2021—The Biden administration announced today that it will begin to reimplement as early as Monday the Migrant Protection Protocols—a Trump-era policy also known as the “Remain in Mexico” program. Under MPP, the U.S. government sent nearly 70,000 people seeking humanitarian protection to dangerous areas of Mexico to await their hearings, leading thousands […]

Four years ago, immigration lawyers and advocates began to see a disturbing practice emerge: the U.S. government began to forcibly separate children—some very young—from their parents at the border. Now, years later, some families are still separated. For those put back together, the scars of trauma are life-long and continue today. Under the Trump administration’s Zero […]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29, 2021 – The Biden administration announced today that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will issue a new memo to formally terminate the Migrant Protection Protocols— a Trump-era policy also known as the “Remain in Mexico” program—that sent thousands of people seeking humanitarian protection to dangerous areas of Mexico to await their hearings. […]

WASHINGTON, August 24, 2021—Today, 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 (MPP)—an illegal Trump-era policy that sent thousands of people seeking humanitarian protection to dangerous areas of Mexico to await their hearings. The lower court decision […]

The American Immigration Council filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit today in federal court against the Department of Homeland Security and its two primary immigration enforcement agencies—U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection—requesting information about the obscure network of databases, information systems, and data sharing methods that are largely shielded from public […]

February 10, 2021 – Since its creation in 1924, the U.S. Border Patrol has been steeped in institutional racism and has committed violent acts with near impunity. The racial animus of U.S. immigration policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century formed the foundation for the agency. Federal laws banning Asian immigration were followed […]