Analysis of the Trump Administration’s Move to End TPS for Venezuelans and Legal Recourse for Opposition Groups

Analysis of the Trump Administration’s Move to End TPS for Venezuelans and Legal Recourse for Opposition Groups

By Mary Campbell | Editorial credit: David Peinado Romero / shutterstock.com  On January 29, 2025, the Trump administration announced its decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for over 600,000 Venezuelan migrants currently residing in the United States. This move, led by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, has ignited controversy and concern among immigration advocates, […]

Biden’s Reviving Phone-Booth Asylum. Here’s Why It Was a Disaster

Biden’s Reviving Phone-Booth Asylum. Here’s Why It Was a Disaster

The Biden administration is yet again turning to the Trump playbook as it tries to slap together a border crackdown to succeed the end of the Title 42 “public health” order next month. The latest revived Trump-era idea: keeping asylum seekers in Border Patrol custody for longer, and conducting asylum screening interviews in phone booths, […]

House GOP’s Immigration Framework Recreates Trump’s Border Wish List

House GOP’s Immigration Framework Recreates Trump’s Border Wish List

By Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Immigration Impact As midterm election season heats up, House Republicans on the “American Security Task Force” have produced a new framework for what they say is a plan to “secure the border.” Despite the claim of new ideas to tackle the situation at the border, the framework is almost identical to prior legislative and […]

Asylum Is In Danger After Court Upholds Rushed Screening Process at the Border

Asylum Is In Danger After Court Upholds Rushed Screening Process at the Border

A Customs and Border Protection agent along the U.S.-Mexico border. 0398 – Yuma Sector, Ariz. / US – July 26, 2016 (Shutterstock) By American Immigration Council Staff, Immigration Impact The Trump administration secretly implemented one of its most horrific attacks on America’s long tradition of asylum—holding asylum seekers in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) […]