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Washington, D.C. —  Today, the Home is Here coalition held a press conference ahead of the 12th anniversary of DACA to call on President Biden to expand and strengthen relief for DACA recipients, DACA-eligible youth, and their communities before a potentially catastrophic 5th Circuit Court decision this year. 12... Continue »

It seems like no U.S. policy priority is immune from the GOP’s obsessive fearmongering on immigrants.  Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing this week that was neither about education nor the workforce. “The Consequences of Biden’s Border Chaos for K-12 Schools” was... Continue »

The Department of Justice has sued Oklahoma over its anti-immigrant law, becoming the latest such lawsuit filed by the federal government in recent weeks over Texas-style legislation endangering long-settled immigrants and U.S. citizens of color alike. The lawsuits against Texas, Iowa, and now Oklahoma “signal that the Biden administration... Continue »

Republican Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have amplified white nationalist great replacement conspiracy theory directly tied to multiple domestic terrorist attacks that have claimed the lives of dozens of Americans over the last several years. Ranking Member Lindsey Graham, South Carolina: On July 19, 2021, Senator Lindsey Graham... Continue »

Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: As if it were not enough to be in suspense over the future of DACA in the courts, potentially... Continue »

Written by David Leopold The restraints held back the worst excesses that soiled the previous promises of mass deportation will no longer be in place.    During Donald Trump’s first campaign, he repeatedly vowed to deport all undocumented immigrants. For example, in June of 2015, he told CNN’s Dana Bash,... Continue »

Iowa’s copycat anti-immigrant law was hit with two major lawsuits late last week. On Thursday, civil rights groups filed a lawsuit against S.F. 2340, which was signed by GOP Governor Kim Reynolds on April 10 and is being described by the groups as unconstitutional and “one of the worst,... Continue »

The overwhelming majority of undocumented immigrant youth who graduated from high school in 2023 can’t apply for protections under the DACA program and are at risk of missing out on the same professional and educational opportunities available to their U.S.-born peers, The Nation reports. “Around 80 percent of the... Continue »

The purpose of this document is to examine what Donald Trump and his allies have promised to do on immigration if he wins a second term. As we’ve noted since 2015, one of the primary tenets of Donald Trump’s previous campaigns and his presidency was cruelty to immigrants. It’s... Continue »

Washington, DC — Following the lead of Texas and its “show me your papers” SB4 law, multiple Republican-controlled states are enacting or seeking to enact their copycat versions of state anti-immigrant legislation. Texas’ law is currently enjoined in the federal courts and could reach the Supreme Court before being... Continue »