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LATEST ANALYSIS
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President Biden’s Keeping Families Together Program Has Begun [[link removed]]
The details of two new policies intended to help provide streamlined paths to legal status for certain undocumented immigrants were published in the Federal Register on August 19, including President Biden’s “Keeping Families Together” program.
Republican-Led States Sue to Block DACA Recipients from Accessing Affordable Health Insurance [[link removed]]
A group of Republican-led states, headed by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, have sued to block a new rule that allows Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients to access health insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It is yet another legal assault on Dreamers, while the fate of DACA itself hangs in the balance.
What Project 2025 Says About Immigration [[link removed]]
The immigration agenda is a carefully considered wish list for remaking federal immigration policy with a clear plan to restrict legal immigration of all kinds, while laying the foundations for a potential campaign of mass deportation.
Texas Attorney General Paxton Continues Fight Against NGOs That Serve Migrants [[link removed]]
Earlier this summer, a federal judge issued a strong rebuke to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s attempt to shut down the faith-based Annunciation House, labeling his actions as “outrageous and intolerable.”
FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW
The United States runs the largest immigration detention system in the world. As of July 2024, over 37,000 people were being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in detention centers across the country.
ICE spending has nearly tripled over the past two decades, to $9.56 billion in 2024. In 2024, Congress allocated Congress allocated $3.43 billion to keep people locked up in detention.
This new interactive tool from the American Immigration Council’s Immigration Justice Campaign provides the facts on detention, including who is profiting off the system and what conditions in ICE detention are really like.
Read more: Immigration Detention in the United States [[link removed]]
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ACROSS THE NATION
The Democratic National Convention took place last week in Chicago, Illinois, as Vice President Kamala Harris officially accepted her party’s nomination. It’s important to remember that Illinois is home to a large population of immigrants.
Illinois has a large population of immigrants, half of whom are naturalized citizens. About 14.3% of the state’s residents are foreign-born, and 8.7% of its U.S.-born residents live with at least one immigrant parent. Immigrants make up 17.6% of Illinois's labor force and support the state’s economy in many ways.
This fact sheet and interactive tool from the Council highlights Illinois immigrants’ key demographics, economic contributions, and voting power, among other facts.
Read more: Immigrants in Illinois [[link removed]]
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Given the critical roles that immigrants play in the U.S. economy, federal policies to increase legal immigration pathways and work authorization and state policies to boost access to professional and occupational licenses will not only have a profound impact on unleashing immigrants' potential, but also significantly contribute to easing the labor shortage experienced by several key industries in the country."
– Nan Wu, for Newsweek, Research Director at the American Immigration Council [[link removed]]
FURTHER READING
NPR’s 1A: The Biden Administration’s latest efforts to keep families together [[link removed]]
BBC: Could Trump really deport one million immigrants? [[link removed]]
Toronto Star: Canada’s plan for undocumented immigrants criticized as U.S. opens legal path for more than half a million [[link removed]]
The Hill: The whole US should follow Tennessee and welcome foreign doctors [[link removed]]
USA Today: Why Trump's immigration-reform proposals come with legal, feasibility concerns [[link removed]]
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