Immigration Council News

Round VI of the Challenge Will Support Local Communities in Welcoming Immigrants WASHINGTON DC & DECATUR, GA, December 15, 2025 — The American Immigration Council (the Council) and Welcoming America, two national nonprofits, are pleased to announce that over 10 local communities have been […]

Washington, D.C., Dec. 12, 2025 — On December 12, a federal court in D.C. ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to follow a long-standing court order that protects immigrant teens from being placed in adult detention centers. The court’s order blocks a new ICE policy to […]

Washington, D.C., Dec. 11, 2025 — A new report from the American Immigration Council warns that the U.S. childcare system (already stretched thin by rising costs, staffing shortages, and high demand) is facing catastrophic disruption under President Donald Trump’s mass deportation […]

Safia is among the 50,500 Afghan refugees admitted to the United States via the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV), a program created by Congress to help Afghans who worked for the U.S. government abroad. A college-educated math teacher who is not yet licensed to teach in the United States, Safia applied […]

Since the Trump administration began arresting immigrants off the street, Philadelphia childcare provider Damaris Alvarado-Rodriguez has had to close one classroom and lay off five teachers, all U.S. citizens. Parents in her Hispanic community, many with valid immigration status, “went into […]

Muna is one of many Somalis admitted to the United States with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) since the country collapsed in 1991 into civil war, causing the deaths of as many as 1 million people. She landed in San Diego in 1999, her 6-month-old baby in tow, knowing no one, knocking on doors to […]

KidsPark strives to support low- and middle-income parents, for whom standard childcare can be prohibitively expensive—potentially pushing them out of the workforce for years. And, from the beginning, immigrants have been vital. “We’ve always relied in the childcare industry on people who […]

Senior Fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick delivered oral testimony before Congress exposing skyrocketing “at-large” arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), profiling, wrongful detentions of U.S. citizens, and the urgent need for congressional reform. What this testimony covers: […]

The commute from home to school takes 50 minutes, and from school to work takes 30 minutes. Jen is in the office until at least 5:30 p.m. School lets out at 2:30 p.m. Without help, “The mornings would be challenging, but the afternoons would make it impossible,” Jen said. The only practical way […]

Rosa has always been there for her American kids and their families, families that needed two incomes and depended on immigrant caregivers like her so they could work. “I love children,” she said. She always paid income taxes, does not drink, does not use drugs, and has never been in any […]