California
Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to spend a portion of the state’s budget surplus on supporting migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border, aiming to provide basic necessities to thousands of people…
Education
A new study analyzed a decade’s worth of data from over 1.3 million Florida students, and links the presence of immigrant classmates with gains in academic performance for students born in the U.S., especially for Black and low-income youth…
Border Crisis
The number of unaccompanied minors encountered on the U.S. border with Mexico in April eased from an all-time high a month earlier, while more adults were found coming without families…
Vice President Kamala Harris is looking for leaders to partner with in the region known as the Northern Triangle to curb migration to the U.S…
Harris will take her first international trip in office in early June to meet with the presidents of Guatemala and Mexico to discuss issues that past administrations have tried and failed to address…
The Courts
Late last month, the U.S. Supreme Court said that it won’t hear a case filed by Texas and 13 other states that seeks to revive a Trump-era “public charge” immigration rule, stating they need an opinion from a lower court first…
President and Administration
Since Biden took office, U.S. border officials have carried out roughly 350,000 expulsions, with nearly 50,000 families among those expelled…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is sending more staff and resources to the border for the “eventuality” that the COVID-19-fueled Title 42 restrictions will end…
In another reversal of Trump’s immigration enforcement policy, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced late last month that federal agents would no longer be permitted to arrest people in or near courthouses for most immigration violations…
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has diverted more than $2 billion meant for other health initiatives toward covering the cost of caring for unaccompanied immigrant children…
Texas and Louisiana are suing to enforce a Trump administration policy that required state prison officials to detain all undocumented immigrants for assessment by federal immigration officials, even if they pose no public risk...
Interviews with a dozen current and former immigration agents highlight growing dissatisfaction among some rank and file members of the CBP over Biden's swift reversal of some of President Trump's hardline immigration policies…
In a rebuke of terms widely used under the Trump administration, the Biden administration has ordered U.S. immigration enforcement agencies to stop using certain terms…
President Biden has signaled that he’s open to a piecemeal approach to immigration, calling on Congress to immediately pass measures with bipartisan support…
The Pentagon announced in late April that it had canceled projects related to the Trump administration’s border wall and was returning money that the previous president directed to the project to defense programs…
Congress
Yesterday, 5/27, the Judiciary Committee held a hearing to consider the confirmation of Ur Jaddou, Biden’s nominee to be director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is quietly considering trying to use budget reconciliation - a fast-track budget maneuver - to legalize millions of undocumented immigrants should bipartisan talks on providing a pathway to citizenship fall apart…
Last week, Vice President Harris hosted members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) to discuss root causes of Central American and Mexican immigration to the United States…
Last month, Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) introduced the Bipartisan Border Solutions Act, which is designed to alleviate the intense demands on the U.S. immigration system and help nudge the stymied debate over immigration law…
Democrats in both chambers have introduced legislation to expand health care to immigrants…
Legislation
H.R. 2920 - American Families United Act…