Immigration Enforcement
Featured Content
Restoring Credibility and Humanity
- Interior Enforcement
- May 12, 2026
A new framework for U.S. immigration enforcement that prioritizes public safety, fairness, accountability, and humane, proportionate consequences. Read More
Read More
DHS Oversight Agency Issues Scathing Report of Conditions at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) own Office of Inspector General (OIG), an office that seeks to provide independent oversight and accountability within the department, issued a damning report last week about the conditions of confinement at Florida’s soft-sided immigration detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” The… Read More
Immigration Detention Should Not Be Mandatory
Grandmothers, legal permanent residents, community members with old, nonviolent convictions who have lived in the United States for decades, and even individuals with no criminal record at all — these are the people currently trapped in horrific conditions inside immigrant detention centers across the country. Read More
New Playbook Tracks State and Local Government Responses to Heightened Federal Immigration Enforcement
As federal immigration arrests reach record highs, state and local leaders are grappling with how to protect communities from an increasingly indiscriminate and violent immigration enforcement system. Now, a new interactive resource from the American Immigration Council and Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS) helps jurisdictions… Read More
The Cost of Immigration Enforcement and Border Security
Federal spending on immigration enforcement has topped half a trillion dollars since DHS was founded in 2003, and Congress keeps adding more. This fact sheet tracks that spending, the human and economic fallout of the current mass deportation campaign, and the wide funding gap between enforcement agencies and the immigration courts that decide these cases. Read More
Fear as Policy: The Growing Mental Health Toll of Mass Deportation Policies
Large-scale enforcement operations, increased enforcement at airports, a growing number of ICE deaths, record-breaking detention and deportation efforts, and the loss of legal protections for certain residents, like Haitians with Temporary Protected Status (TPS), have become hallmarks of the second Trump administration. These increasingly common… Read More
Council and Partners File FOIA Request for Records of Guidance from ICE to Local Law Enforcement about Releasing Records under State Laws
A new FOIA request seeks records revealing how ICE advises local law enforcement agencies on disclosing records under state public information and transparency laws. Read More
The Use of Parole Under Immigration Law
Parole under immigration law is very different than in the criminal justice context. In the immigration context, parole facilitates certain individuals’ entry into and permission to temporarily remain in the United States. This overview explains how parole requests are considered, who may qualify, and what parole programs exist. Read More
How We Fix Our Immigration Crisis
This month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers killed another unarmed individual. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father of three U.S. citizen children, lived in the United States for 35 years and had no criminal convictions. He was driving to a construction job site with three co-workers to build homes… Read More
America Needs a New Immigration Agency for People Like Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
Your immigration status shouldn’t cost you your life. For Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, it didn’t matter that he was the father of three U.S. citizens, a longtime Houston resident, a decades-long construction worker, or that he wanted to follow the rules and posed no safety threat. Read More
Inhumane Detention Conditions Aren’t Uncommon, They’re Part of the Problem
Written by Alimatou Sarr, State & Local and Policy Intern Recent hunger and labor strikes by hundreds of detained noncitizens at the privately-operated Delaney Hall immigration detention center generated widespread scrutiny and protests against allegations of abuse and mistreatment. Among their complaints, detained noncitizens alleged… Read More
America's story is an immigrant story.
