Jeremy Robbins

Mass Deportation: Analyzing the Trump Administration's Attacks on Immigrants, Democracy, and America - American Immigration Council The first six months of President Trump’s return to office have marked the most extreme changes to the immigration system in modern U.S. history.

Six months into this Trump admin, it's becoming impossible to track every change. So we didn't.

What we did is to put together a special report that evaluates what immigration policy looks like now--and how to understand it going forward. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/mass-...

Mass Deportation: Analyzing the Trump Administration's Attacks on Immigrants, Democracy, and America - American Immigration Council The first six months of President Trump’s return to office have marked the most extreme changes to the immigration system in modern U.S. history.

The Trump administration’s first six months back in office represent the most extreme and sweeping immigration crackdown in modern U.S. history.

But our special report shows that this isn't just a hardline immigration agenda.

It's an attack on our democracy.

Supreme Court hands Trump major win, limits judges’ ability to block birthright citizenship order nationwide The justices did not definitively resolve the legality of the executive order.

Today's SCOTUS ruling will create a chaotic and confusing patchwork of rules across the country.

Constitutional rights like birthright citizenship shouldn’t depend on where you live or whether you can file a lawsuit in time.

This ruling creates a reality in which that could be the case.

For the #AILAAC25 Immigrants List Civic action panel, our ED
@jeremyrobbins.bsky.social, speaks to the lawyers in the room.

“If you don’t think of yourself as a litigator, [the Council] can show you the way.”

Get involved: immigrationjustice.us/types-of-vol...

Juneteenth: Celebrating the Contributions of Black Immigrants Juneteenth can’t be fully observed without also celebrating the immense, vibrant contributions of millions of Black immigrants.

Black immigrants pay billions in taxes annually, and many play essential roles in industries critical to millions of Americans, including healthcare. “For example, Black immigrants are more likely to work in healthcare than are other immigrant groups.” open.substack.com/pub/americas... #Juneteenth

Opinion | When Rights Erode for Some of Us, Something Corrodes in All of Us

“It was never going to be possible to deport millions of people, as he promised, without stomping through American communities.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...

Texas Dream Act Survives—Because Texans Showed Up In a legislative session marked by political division, the Texas Dream Act for undocumented students endured.

In a legislative session marked by political division and increasingly polarized rhetoric, the Texas Dream Act endured. The win affirms that all Texas high school graduates—regardless of immigration status—will continue to have access to higher education. immigrationimpact.com/2025/05/30/t...

Supreme Court “De-Documents” 350,000 Venezuelans – And Keeps Everyone In The Dark About What’s Next The Supreme Court achieved what law professors believe to be the biggest instantaneous “de-documentation” of immigrants in U.S. history.

"the Supreme Court achieved what law professors believe to be the biggest instantaneous 'de-documentation' of immigrants in U.S. history. 350,000 people who woke up on Monday with legal status in the U.S. went to bed Monday without it." @daralind.bsky.social immigrationimpact.com/2025/05/21/s...

House Reconciliation Bill Would Supercharge Immigrant Detention and Effectively Eliminate Asylum for Most If passed, a new budget reconciliation bill would represent the single biggest increase in funding to immigration enforcement in U.S. history.

On April 30, the House Judiciary Committee advanced a budget reconciliation bill which, if signed into law, would represent the single biggest increase in funding to immigration enforcement in the history of the United States.

Read more: immigrationimpact.com/2025/05/05/h...

In March, the Immigration Justice Campaign's client Ilia Chernov won his asylum case in a Louisiana immigration court.

But as of now—two months after winning asylum—he's still sitting in immigration detention, at the notorious Winn Correctional Center, facing abuse and discrimination.

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In-State Tuition Policies for Undocumented Students Change Lives. I Should Know—Mine Changed for the Better The Texas Dream Act was signed into law when I was five, completely unaware at the time that it would one day allow me to attend college.

"The Texas Dream Act didn’t give me a scholarship. It didn’t magically erase the barriers I faced. I still had to work multiple jobs. I still had no access to federal financial aid... But I got to attend and graduate from college." @immcouncil.org immigrationimpact.com/2025/05/09/i...

Inside The Fight To Return The Other Men Trump Sent To CECOT When the Trump administration sent more than 200 Venezuelans to an El...

What @immcouncil.org is fighting: "The cases present a kafkaesque situation.... [T]hey were sent to a prison that is neither in the U.S. nor their country of origin with no charges and no clear legal authority justifying their continued, indefinite detention." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

Support the Immigration Justice Campaign Access Fund Immigrants are under attack, but we’re fighting back. As policies change, and legal representation for immigrants is stripped away, we need funding for additional travel and language access. Help chip...

The government is trying to intimidate immigration attorneys.

We’re not backing down.

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Today is International Fact-Checking Day—a reminder that accurate information matters.

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A picture of Neri Alvarado, a young man, standing next to his brother, who is a young teenager. Both are smiling for the camera and wearing matching shirts. Neri has his arm around his brother.

A picture of Neri's tattoo, which is an autism ribbon in rainbow colors with his brother's name "Neryelson" written on it.

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos.

Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

The State of Play: An Update on Immigration Policy Changes Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

#ICYMI - Watch the recording of our recent webinar "The State of Play: An Update on Immigration Policy Changes" featuring four of our Council subject matter experts.

Stay updated on rapidly changing information!

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Draft List for New Travel Ban Proposes Trump Target 43 Countries A draft circulating inside the administration lists three tiers of countries whose citizens may face restrictions on entering the United States.

The Trump administration is considering targeting the citizens of as many as 43 countries as part of a new ban on travel to the U.S. that would be broader than the restrictions imposed during President Trump’s first term, according to officials familiar with the matter.

But ordinary (in the banality of evil sense) in that the horrors Mahmoud experienced of being secreted off to a prison in Louisiana where access to a lawyer is all but impossible happen every day to immigrants in this country.

Read our 2022 suit: www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/litigation/c...

The horror of this case is both how extraordinary it is and how ordinary it is.

Extraordinary that in a country that prides itself in freedom of speech, someone here legally can be arrested and potentially deported for expressing a political point of view, but ...

#ICYMI: The Council was featured on the latest episode of @lastweektonight.com!

Immigrant detention is no laughing matter—and we're fighting for transparency, accountability, and justice.
Watch the episode: youtu.be/5Hpgu7wSUQQ

U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.

On day 1, the White House repealed the priorities memo that focused our deportation efforts on violent criminals. Now, a 10-year old U.S. citizen recovering from brain cancer is cut off from her medical care since she was deported along with her parents. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

The Chilling Effect of Trump’s Indiscriminate Immigration Arrests & Propaganda As we near the one-month mark of the new Trump administration, it is clear that the president’s thinly veiled threats of imposing mass deportation on “criminal immigrants” are in fact a promise to tar...

As we near the one-month mark of the new Trump administration, it is clear that the president’s thinly veiled threats of imposing mass deportation on “criminal immigrants” are a promise to target all immigrants—and sometimes even U.S. citizens.

Read more: immcouncil.co/3WZRAfe

President Trump has issued immigration-related executive orders and proclamations that will re-shape the U.S. immigration system. Join the American Immigration Council for a webinar about the Trump administration’s most harmful actions.

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I think keeping our communities safe should be the highest priority of government. But the idea that immigration is driving a crime way in American cities over the last 20+ years has no basis in reality. I grew up in NYC in the 80s. Crime has plummeted since then. True just about everywhere.

Trump DHS makes key move against migrants allowed in via controversial Biden parole programs The Thursday memo notes that parole is a 'positive exercise of enforcement discretion to which no alien is entitled'

Fox News? www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...

Trump gives Ice power to deport immigrants who came legally under Biden Ice given unprecedented authority to expedite deportations as US cities face raids and troops arrive at US-Mexico border

The memorandum from
DHS prioritizing violent criminals has been abandoned. Quite the the contrary, they have now explicitly expanded the category of people to be deported to people who came here through legally established parole programs to work that they are now ending.

Mass Deportation: Devastating Costs to America, Its Budget and Economy The mass deportation of millions of undocumented individuals would be tremendously expensive and would have a catastrophic impact on our economy—one that would be expansive and impact every American. ...

Second, the American Immigration Council’s staggering estimates of the costs of Trump’s mass deportation plan — nearly $1 trillion over a decade — may turn out to be staggeringly UNDERESTIMATED, since deportation flights using the military are orders of magnitude more expensive.

First, since Trump Administration abandoned Biden’s priorities memorandum, that $852,000 flight is no longer going to be filled with violent criminals. Trump has promised to deport all undocumented immigrants, the majority of whom have been here decades, are working, and are active community members

Trump's deportation flights carrying just 80 migrants cost eye-watering amount The cost of operating immigrations related flights by the U.S. Military is significantly more than flighted chartered by the Department of Homeland Security

The first deportation flights are costing taxpayers a staggering $852,000 each to deport just 80 people.

Several thoughts spring to mind about the implications of this. 1/x www.themirror.com/news/us-news...

1/3 🧵: In uncertain times, it’s crucial to shine a light on the truth about immigration:

✅ Immigration has been shown to enhance public safety.

✅ Immigration contributes billions in taxes for schools, infrastructure, and public services.