Trump Administration

Trump’s Immigration Actions Are Taking a Toll on Local Economies – Here’s What the Data Says So Far

Seven months into President Trump’s term, immigration enforcement operations continue to ramp up, and the broader economic impacts are beginning to come into view. Rather than focus on the “worst of the worst,” the Trump administration has increasingly targeted worksites for immigration raids, picking up delivery drivers, street vendors,… Read More

Learning in the Shadows: How Immigration Enforcement Harms Students and Schools

As students across the United States are returning to the classroom this fall, the lasting and deeply damaging effects of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda loom over schools. As the administration aggressively pursues its immigration enforcement agenda, it is creating a crisis in the nation’s education system—one that’s… Read More

ICE to Use ImmigrationOS by Palantir, a New AI System, to Track Immigrants’ Movements

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has partnered with Palantir Technologies—a Denver-based software company co-founded by billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel—to use artificial intelligence and data mining to identify, track, and deport suspected noncitizens. Palantir is slated to deliver a prototype of the ImmigrationOS platform by September 25, 2025, with… Read More

State Attorneys General On Track to File Record Number of Lawsuits Against Trump Administration

State attorneys general (AGs) sued the federal government a record 138 times during the first Trump administration and are on pace to reach a new high this second term. Seven months into the current administration, state AGs are utilizing these lawsuits to – among other things – mitigate… Read More

A Backdoor for Immigration Enforcement: Why Trump’s Federal Takeover of D.C. Matters

The federal takeover of Washington, D.C. is another front in the Trump's war on immigrants and the communities that welcome them. Read More

DACA Recipients Keep Getting Detained, Despite Protections

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin recently told NBC News that “DACA does not confer any form of legal status in this country.” Then she went further: any DACA recipient may be detained and deported, and urged them to self-deport. DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,… Read More

What Are the Impacts of President Trump’s Travel Ban?

In June 2025, the Trump administration announced a new travel ban to restrict or prohibit entry to the United States for individuals from 19 countries, In 2022, nearly 300,000 people from these countries came to the U.S. They brought skills, paid taxes, and filled critical jobs. Read More

For Victims of Gender-Based Violence, Getting Asylum Just Got Harder

A new decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) will make it harder for people fleeing gender-based violence to gain asylum in the United States. On July 18, the BIA published its decision in Matter of K-E-S-G-, finding that people persecuted solely on account of their… Read More

How The Trump Administration Uses the Power of Government to Make Its Dystopian Propaganda Real

The American Immigration Council’s new special report, Mass Deportation: Analyzing the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Immigrants, Democracy, and America, is a guide to the first six months of the second Trump administration, what might be coming, and who is being harmed. This is the fourth in a series… Read More