It has been one year since the Trump admin invoked the Alien Enemies Act and began targeting international students with a novel provision of the INA but thus far faced resistance in the courts with these and other policies. Read more here: www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trum...

The Trump Administration’s Immigration Policies Encounter Resistance in the Courts

Federal judges have provided significant opposition to the Trump administration’s immigration policies during its second term. The courts have halted or slowed a number of administration initiatives, ...

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A pleasure speaking with Ron at The Gaggle on E-Verify and worksite enforcement. Give it a listen where you listen to your podcasts!

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The ICE raids on Zipps restaurants were the kind of more deliberative probes overshadowed by the profiling dragnets used these days. It also underscored Arizona’s toothless employer-sanctions law. I talked with @colleenputzelkav.bsky.social about it.

With news of ICE's focus on Maine, recommending my colleagues @colleenputzelkav.bsky.social & Valerie Lacarte's profile of ME's small immigrant population. ME's immigrants are a mix of long-settled, well-integrated folks, and newcomers from diverse origins, bolstering the workforce of an aging state

Reshaping who is welcome and who belongs is the undertone of the first year of changes to the U.S. immigration system in the first year of the Trump administration Read our full report by @kathleenbush.bsky.social, Muz Chishti, and me here: www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trum...

Unleashing Power in New Ways: Immigration in the First Year of Trump 2.0

U.S. immigration policy, practice, and enforcement changed dramatically over the first year of President Donald Trump's second term, touching most corners of the immigration system. The government has...

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TOMORROW: Beyond Shock & Awe: Immigration Actions in the 1st year under Trump 2.0 Join @kathleenbush.bsky.social & @migrationpolicy.bsky.social colleagues Muz Chisti and Doris Meissner as we unravel the sweeping changes to immigration policy this last year www.migrationpolicy.org/events/immig...

Beyond “Shock and Awe”: Immigration Actions in the First Year under Trump 2.0

MPI analysts assess the immigration actions taken during President Trump's first year back in office, detail the legal state of play, and analyze the actual effects on the labor market, U.S. communiti...

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NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...

Increased immigration enforcement, especially at workplaces, may bring the 30-year old E-Verify program back into the national conversation. But the administration remains amibavlent about the program-both touting its use and warning against reliance. Read more in MPI's latest bit.ly/MPIeverify

Employment Verification: The Next Front for U.S. Immigration Enforcement?

E-Verify has been heralded as a key way to control unauthorized immigration to the United States, but federal efforts to expand the system stalled. There has been movement at the state level over the ...

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With a steep decrease in migrant arrivals at the US-MX border, the Trump administration has directed its focus to enforcement in the US interior. In a NEW @migrationpolicy.bsky.social short read, I describe key data trends using the latest FY25 data. ⬇️ www.migrationpolicy.org/news/new-era...

A New Era of Immigration Enforcement Unfolds in the U.S. Interior and at the Border under Trump 2.0

The transformation in U.S. immigration enforcement taking place at the U.S.-Mexico border and in communities across the United States during the second Trump term is tangibly captured in government da...

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"Maine offers an example of an important question facing policymakers nationwide how to manage broad policy challenges, such as housing and labor shortages, while simultaneously assisting communities in need of additional support immigrant and U.S. born alike" www.migrationpolicy.org/research/mai...

Maine’s Immigrant Communities: Diverse Origins, Characteristics, and Challenges

Maine’s immigrant population, though relatively small, is a notably diverse mix of long-settled residents and newcomers from many parts of the world. At a time when the U.S.-born workforce in Maine is...

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Happy to share that MPI has updated its online data tool that profiles the country's unauthorized immigrant population at the national, state, and local level to use 2023 American Community Survey data. Check it out here:

Unauthorized Immigrant Population Profiles

Use this unique data tool to learn about unauthorized immigrant populations in the U.S. and by state and for top counties. Get detailed data profiles for the United States, 43 states (plus the Distric...

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The Trump administration continues to increase the use of U.S. military in immigration enforcement Coast Guard presence on the southern border has tripled since the start of the administration, and continues to grow

🔔 The Trump administration is ambitiously promoting "self-deportation" In my latest with Muzaffar Chishti, we look at the building of this enterprise and examine the components of past successes and failures in the U.S. and other countries bit.ly/SelfDeportat...

Can the Trump Administration’s “Self-Deportation” Campaign Succeed?

The Trump administration has launched an ambitious campaign to encourage “self-deportation” as a complement to its muscular immigration enforcement operations. While a somewhat similar U.S. attempt in...

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📣New CBP data from May provide key insights into how migration has shifted under new policies. ‼️How and where people arrive to the border has changed though encounters remain low and trends of the previous months continue. 🧵Below on these changes and their implications

The enforcement-centric policies may have reduced migration to the U.S.-Mexico border, but migration does not stop. Smugglers adapt to changing policies and migration has now become more remote and more dangerous. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Amid Trump's southern border clampdown, smugglers and migrants use deadlier routes into U.S.

The flow of migrants has dropped significantly, but thousands are still trying to cross, and smugglers are increasingly finding ways to send migrants alone through treacherous terrain.

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Since January, irregular arrivals to the U.S.-Mexico border have hit lows not seen since the 1960s. The real test will be whether these lows can be sustained absent key ingredients that led to them in the first place. Read my latest here: www.migrationpolicy.org/news/low-mig...

Can Near-Historic Low Migrant Encounter Levels at the U.S.-Mexico Border Be Sustained?

Migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border have fallen to lows not seen since the 1960s. But can this trend continue amid a sharp policy shift to a deterrence-focused approach, setting aside a carro...

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Big news in a humanitarian parole court case: Yesterday, a lower court judge said USCIS needs to process parolees' applications for asylum & work permits Also certified a nationwide class covering certain Ukrainians, Afghans, Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans & more

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#BREAKING: 🥳📣Good news for your feed! A federal judge in Massachusetts issued two rulings in our case, Svitlana Doe v. Noem, today defending the #FreedomToWelcome. Here's what you need to know 👇

📣In my latest with Muzaffar Chishti we map out the administration's attempt to expand ICE's access to even more databases like IRS, USPS, and SSA. We also untangle the web of databases ICE already has access to, including its reliance on private data companies. Read ⬇️ bit.ly/ICE-data-col...

Seeking to Ramp Up Deportations, the Trump Administration Quietly Expands a Vast Web of Data

In its bid to ramp up deportations, the Trump administration is granting ICE access to a swath of government databases that were previously off limits for immigration enforcement, including sensitive ...

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Judge dismisses nearly 100 trespassing charges in "National Defense Areas" along the border citing that intent to enter a military area must be proved. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/u...

Judge Dismisses ‘Trespassing’ Charges Promoted by Trump in Border ‘Defense Area’

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New MPI estimates - with Demographer Jenny Van Hook - show that Pres. Trump's EO on birthright citizenship would grow the population of people without legal status in the U.S., not shrink it. Unauthorized population would be 5.4 million larger in 2075 than under current practice.

Repealing Birthright Citizenship Would Significantly Increase the Size of the U.S. Unauthorized Population

Repealing birthright citizenship for babies born on U.S. soil to unauthorized immigrants or temporary visa holders would have a contrary result from its stated aim of reducing the unauthorized immigra...

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📣NEW April CBP data shows a slight increase in encounters btwn POEs to 8K, primarily driven by an increase in Mexican nationals. It is the highest month of encounters so far in this term for the Trump administration. 🧵below by @migrationpolicy.bsky.social colleague @ruizags.bsky.social and me

CBP quietly revoked protections for at-risk people in custody—including pregnant women, infants, the elderly, and those with serious medical conditions—calling them “misaligned” with enforcement priorities. The rules required basics like diapers, formula, and water. www.wired.com/story/cbp-re...

US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants

CBP's acting commissioner has rescinded four Biden-era policies that aimed to protect vulnerable people in the agency's custody, including mothers, infants, and the elderly.

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There were 1.8 million asylum applications pending at the immigration courts, as of March 2025 In particular, asylum cases are a big impediment to Trump's mass deportation plans: --they take longer to adjudicate because --they're more complex & --they can result in protection from deportation

Hablé con @citylimitsnews.bsky.social sobre los cambios en los primeros 100 días de la administración de Trump incluyendo deportaciones y los cambios en la frontera. Escucha aquí citylimits.org/podcast-que-...

PODCAST: ¿Qué cambios ha realizado Trump en materia de inmigración durante los primeros 100 días de su segundo mandato? - City Limits

En este breve lapso, el presidente Trump ha adoptado 181 medidas en materia de inmigración, más que las 94 que tomó el expresidente Joe Biden en el mismo periodo y seis veces más que las que tomó Trum...

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In response to @freedom.press FOIA request, ODNI declassified & released an intel memo contradicting a key claim Trump made to invoke the Alien Enemies Act Confirms reporting the Trump admin characterized as false & used to justify weakening limits on leak inquiries www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

Spy Agencies Do Not Think Venezuela Directs Gang, Declassified Memo Shows

The release of the memo further undercuts the Trump administration’s rationale for using the Alien Enemies Act to deport scores of Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador.

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Inbox: ICE says it has deported 65,682 and made 66,463 arrests during Trump's first 100 days. The agency says it now has 579 signed or pending 287(g) agreements with police and sheriff's departments -- 444 of them since Jan. 20.

In the first 100 days, the Trump administration has taken 175 immigration related actions drastically shaking up the U.S. immigration system. My @migrationpolicy.bsky.social colleagues @kathleenbush.bsky.social and Muzaffar Chishti unpack these changes in their latest, link below.

Repealing birthright citizenship would mean: 🔹swelling the size of the existing unauthorized population 🔹creating a multigenerational class of US-born residents deprived of full rights Our Senior Fellow Michael Fix explains what's at stake, in new op-ed👇 riponsociety.org/article/shou...

📣New CBP data from March show 7K encounters between ports of entry, the lowest since 1967 when border encounters averaged 6K per month. 💡Rather than an isolated event, this low is part of a years long three-phased story 🧵Below with @migrationpolicy.bsky.social colleague @ruizags.bsky.social

This Friday @kathleenbush.bsky.social and I will be presenting on the Trump administration's actions thus far including an update on the promise of mass deportations, border enforcement efforts, and the dramatic shifts in the U.S. government. Register at the link in comments

On 4/4, @colleenputzelkav.bsky.social & I are going to talk about the Trump admin's initial immigration actions @georgetown-sfs.bsky.social We will talk about ICE arrests, deportations, litigation & more Register to watch online: cisneros.columbian.gwu.edu/trump-admini...