On Immigration, the Extremes Are Not Good Advisors

On Immigration, the Extremes Are Not Good Advisors

By Maribel Hastings, America’s Voice | Editorial credit: David Peinado Romero / shutterstock.com  Approaching the end of a complicated and tumultuous year, in so many ways, immigrants and their advocates are regrouping to face 2025 with bigger challenges because the promise of Donald Trump’s mass deportations could become a reality.   Recently, I wrote that […]

What Will Mass Deportations Look Like?

What Will Mass Deportations Look Like?

Posted by Adriel Orozco | IMMIGRATION IMPACT | Editorial credit: Rena Schild / shutterstock.com The American Immigration Council does not endorse or oppose candidates for elected office. We aim to provide analysis regarding the implications of the election on the U.S. immigration system. In less than two months, President-elect Donald Trump will begin his second […]

Clarke Celebrates The Biden-Harris Administration’s Action To Keep Families Together

Clarke Celebrates The Biden-Harris Administration’s Action To Keep Families Together

Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com Washington, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) released the following statement regarding the Biden-Harris Administration’s action to ensure that U.S. citizens with noncitizen spouses and children are able to keep their families together: “As we commemorated 12 years of America being uplifted and bettered by DACA earlier this […]

Iowa Governor Signs Bill That Would Make it a Crime for Some Undocumented Migrants to be in the State

Iowa Governor Signs Bill That Would Make it a Crime for Some Undocumented Migrants to be in the State

By Alisha Ebrahimji and Alexandra Ross | CNN Iowa is taking a page out of Texas’ book as its governor signed a bill into law this week allowing law enforcement officers to arrest some undocumented migrants. Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Wednesday that makes it a crime to be in the state after being deported, […]

California Becomes First State to Offer Health Insurance to All Eligible Undocumented Adults

California Becomes First State to Offer Health Insurance to All Eligible Undocumented Adults

By Kristen Hwang | December 28, 2023 | Cal Matters Perla Lopez hands a stack of papers to Baudeilio, a 44-year-old undocumented immigrant and day laborer. She has just helped him apply for Medi-Cal at the benefits center at St. John’s Community Health’s in South Los Angeles. “If you see anything you don’t understand from […]

How Did a State Known for Its War on Immigrants Approve In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students?

How Did a State Known for Its War on Immigrants Approve In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students?

TEMPE, AZ/USA – APRIL 10, 2019: Entrance sign to the campus of Arizona State University. (Shutterstock) By Isabela Dias, Mother Jones Jose Patiño remembers how his mother cried when the acceptance letter from Arizona State University arrived in the mail in late 2006. There it was, the ultimate reward for her son’s hard work and […]

What You Need to Know About the New Proposal to Update The Registry

What You Need to Know About the New Proposal to Update The Registry

By Walter Ewing, Immigration Impact Democrats in the House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would allow undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States for at least seven years to legalize their status. The bill would change a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act known as “Registry,” which allows certain long-term […]