Center for American Progress

Washington, D.C. Oct. 18, 2018 — According to a new CAP analysis, the proposed Flores rule would cost the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) more than $2 billion at a minimum and as much as $12.9 billion over a decade, imposing minimum annualized costs of at least $201 million and as much as $1.3 billion. This means that, […]

Washington, D.C. October 16, 2018 – After reports that his administration is once again considering separating families, President Donald Trump claimed that his administration’s cruel family separation policy was an effective deterrent to border crossings. A previous Center for American Progress study found that neither family separation nor family detention were meaningful deterrents, and Tom […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. Oct. 9, 2018 – During his first week in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order on immigration enforcement that included boosting a federal program known as 287(g), which deputizes local law enforcement officers to act as federal immigration agents. Since then, 287(g) partnerships between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and local law enforcement agencies have more […]

WASHINGTON, DC, Aug. 29, 2018 – The Center for American Progress Action Fund’s American Worker Project is tracking every action the president takes to weaken job protections for Americans, and with Labor Day around the corner, the Action Fund has updated its tracker with new content and examples of ways the Trump administration has betrayed […]

WASHINGTON, DC, Aug. 27, 2018 – A culture of corruption in the Trump administration’s Interior Department may be reaping financial benefits for political donors and past clients of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and other senior officials, according to a new report from the Center for American Progress. CAP’s review of financial and lobbying disclosure forms, […]

Washington, D.C. Aug. 9, 2018 — While the largest U.S. oil companies have been mostly silent about their aim to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one little-known corporation has been openly leading the charge, according to a new issue brief from the Center for American Progress. The Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC)—one of the largest […]

Washington, D.C. May 30, 2018 — Disturbing new government data shows that LGBT immigrants held at federal detention centers are 97 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than other detainees, according to an analysis by the Center for American Progress. The CAP analysis is based on data from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) […]

Washington, D.C. April 9, 2018 — Strengthening and growing the middle class and raising wages are among the most critical challenges facing the country today, and the most effective and direct way to boost wages is to modernize how workers negotiate for a raise. Conservative efforts to kill raises in the federal minimum wage and to weaken […]

The Trump administration has stepped up its efforts to expand the controversial 287(g) program, which gives state and local law enforcement agencies limited immigration enforcement authority. Shortly after his inauguration, President Donald Trump signed an executive order instructing then-Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly to pursue additional 287(g) agreements. The president’s guidance was based on a section of […]

WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 14, 2018 – The Center for American Progress released two new analyses showing that ending family migration and eliminating the diversity visa program would eviscerate immigration from Latin America, Africa, and Asia to the United States— and would go against the core of American immigration policy and priorities in place for more […]

WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 6, 2018 – In a new in-depth column out today, Center for American Progress vice president for Immigration Policy Tom Jawetz writes that as the dealmaking to find a permanent solution for Dreamers in time continues, there are “5 Things the Trump Administration Can Do Right Now To Protect Dreamers and Show […]

Washington, D.C. October 27, 2017 – As the five-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy approaches, a new analysis from the Center for American Progress finds that the most destructive hurricanes, storms, and other severe weather in the United States have caused about $675 billion in total damages since 2011. That massive figure works out to about […]