By American Immigration Council Staff | January 18, 2024 | Immigration Impact Texas is once again making national headlines after a woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande while attempting ...
Where the ‘Migrant Protection Protocols’ Stand, Four Years After Going Into Effect
Mission, TX, USA – Feb. 16, 2023: A Border Patrol agent speaks to the suspected coyote who led a group of 15 Central Americans and Mexicans across the Rio Grande River illegally to enter the U.S...
Biden Administration Ends Trump-era ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy
By Chris Tobias On Monday, August 8, the Biden administration announced it would wind down the use of a controversial immigration policy known as Remain in Mexico, which denies US entry to migrants se...
Mayorkas Calls for New Immigration Law Amid Renewed Scrutiny, Tragedy at the Border
New York, NY – September 10, 2021: Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during 911 security briefing at One Police Plaza. (Shutterstock) By ABC News Congress “must pass” new...
Supreme Court Permits Biden to Terminate ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program
Juárez Chihuahua Mexico 11-22-2021 – Group of migrants surrender to a border patrol agent after crossing the border between Mexico and the United States (Shutterstock) By Aaron Reichlin-Melnick...
Mexico’s Supreme Court Declares Immigration Checkpoints Unconstitutional
By Rebekah Wolf, Immigration Impact Mexico’s Supreme Court released a decision on May 18 that struck down the policy of stopping and searching individuals to check their immigration status as racist...
Federal Judge Blocks Termination of Title 42: What You Need to Know
By Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Immigration Impact Just three days before Title 42 was set to end on May 23, a federal judge in Louisiana blocked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from e...
Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in ‘Remain in Mexico’ Case
By Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Immigration Impact Over three years after the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) went into effect, the Supreme Court finally heard oral arguments in a case about the progra...
Remain in Mexico policy needlessly exposed migrants to harm, report says
A group of migrants eat cookies while waiting their turn to be served by Mexican immigration authorities to apply for asylum on December 3, 2018 in Mexicali, Mexico. (Shutterstock) By Tom Phillips, Th...