"The task forces, co-led by the FBI and ICE's Homeland Security Investigations unit, will eventually have outposts in all 50 states. They're up and running in South Texas, Alaska and Indianapolis." https://bit.ly/44e0jhA

"The administrative stay issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which the Trump administration requested, halts the release of those detainees while the government’s appeal moves forward." Oral arguments are scheduled for Dec. 2. https://nyti.ms/4oV9FHu

AILA member Nell W. Barker gave a one-month overview of the 2025 H-1B Proclamation as part of AILA's Video Roundtable "2025 H-1B Proclamation: Employer Action Steps and Immigration Law Challenges." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1YrwJ8pSbg

Great article highlighting the important work of @aila.org and our members to protect clients' rights, particularly through habeas efforts.

"The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found." https://bit.ly/48raCRY

"The FBI spied on a private Signal group chat of immigrants’ rights activists who were organizing 'courtwatch' efforts in New York City this spring, law enforcement records shared with the Guardian indicate." https://bit.ly/4o8EhUu

"21,000 Charlotte students missed school on Monday as fears mount over Border Patrol and ICE activity...The widespread crackdown...has sparked concern and pushback from educators and city leaders about its impact on the local community." https://bit.ly/3K4YQmQ

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"A federal judge’s inquiry to determine which Trump administration officials violated a court order that barred deportation flights to El Salvador is back on after a seven-month pause for appeals." https://wapo.st/3XAdOo6

Raids "have been aggressive and even violent, with agents striking restrained people, deploying tear gas outside of schools, and pointing pepper spray at brazen onlookers who inevitably gather to decry what’s happening." https://bit.ly/4oN9X2X

"Alves’ story of constantly having to jump through hoops for an education and future employment opportunities — despite being given legal status — is one that is all too familiar to the over half a million DACA recipients currently in the U.S." https://bit.ly/4ibVkUv

NEW on #ThinkImmigration: AILA member Angelo Paparelli describes the multimedia “All-American Story” launching on Human Rights Day this December, invites immigrants & attorneys to add to the tapestry, and interviews producer Amy Friedman. https://bit.ly/3JXYLBy

"Advocates were quick to criticize the proposal, arguing its new broad scope is too vague and could disincentivize the use of the benefits by immigrants who need them and qualify for them." https://n.pr/4ph7UE2

"Patent licensing, particularly when tied to commercialization in the United States, should be formally recognized as evidence of extraordinary ability or national interest in immigration petitions." Read by Abhilasha Khanal in the #AILALawJournal: https://bit.ly/47AYvjv

"Similar scenes of courthouse arrests, part of a makeover of the immigration courts under President Donald Trump, are playing out across the United States as his call for mass deportations of migrants is executed with unusually aggressive tactics." https://bit.ly/4oWxfDS

"USCIS would consider 'country-specific factors' in green card, parole & asylum applications. Coming from a country on the travel ban list—mostly those in Africa & the Middle East—would be considered 'significant negative factors' on immigration requests." https://bit.ly/4nYi4Zd

"Collectively, the enrollment declines in Miami-Dade erased about $70 million from the district’s annual budget, forcing administrators to scramble to cover the unexpected shortfall." https://to.pbs.org/4a5aHvI

"People detained in Charlotte include workers at a Home Depot parking lot putting up Christmas decorations, a young man who worked at a grocery store and others in...churches, apartment complexes." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/immigration-arrests-charlotte-fear-businesses-closed-rcna244357

"This stringent enforcement and stringent examination of what has always been perfectly legal visa categories is new,” said AILA President Jeff Joseph. https://wapo.st/4oMLMBX

"New international student enrollment in U.S. institutions declined by 17% in fall 2025, the largest nonpandemic decline in the last 11 years." https://nbcnews.to/4rmoeWj

"There’s now fear that the push to drastically increase deportations and shift who can claim America as home, through things like trying to end birthright citizenship, is having a ripple effect." https://bit.ly/4idkm5K

"Border Patrol agents arrested 81 people in Charlotte on Saturday...A man with a REAL ID who says he became a US citizen in 2019 was caught in the fray." https://cnn.it/4ojEVyV

"Homeland security agents investigating sexual crimes against children, for instance, have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown for weeks at a time, hampering their pursuit of child predators." https://nyti.ms/3K1X5Xz

"Seven detainees at an immigration detention center in California City have sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, alleging the facility is polluted by sewage leaks, infested with bugs and is denying people access to food, water and their lawyers." https://bit.ly/3WSacO2

AILA & the American Immigration Council said that "the rule 'relies on insufficiently supported logic and allegations to justify sweeping changes that could harm international students, U.S. institutions of higher education and U.S. employers.'" https://bit.ly/3LDfpH7

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"ProPublica has observed eight of their hearings, and not once has a government attorney mentioned any pending criminal charges or membership in Tren de Aragua." https://bit.ly/3JVVlPx

"There's also anecdotal evidence that people are relocating, from cities with aggressive immigration enforcement to places with fewer raids, where they feel safer." https://n.pr/43vMlr3

Contextualizing their article in the Fall 2025 AILA Law Journal, Delaram Rezaeikhonakdar & Craig Shagin share about the importance of public scrutiny and review of AI in immigration enforcement for the #ThinkImmigration blog. https://bit.ly/3WUvyKB

Lam "is a welder and father of four who came to the U.S. as a child refugee from Laos 40 years ago. He knew that after President Donald Trump took office and vowed the 'largest deportation operation' in U.S. history, his future could be in peril." https://nbcnews.to/49hOJFz

"A federal judge has ordered the release of hundreds of people who were arrested over the last few months in the Chicago area amid the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration raids across the city." https://bit.ly/48dAJf2

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"Bovino and his officers are expected to head to Charlotte, North Carolina, then continue to New Orleans, according to two of the officials, who stressed plans are still being finalized." https://cnn.it/3Xn5Led

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"As ICE and other federal agencies storm cities across the country in a sweeping immigration crackdown, one seismic policy change has largely flown under the radar: the assault on DACA and the more than 515,000 recipients currently in the program." https://bit.ly/49Kmtvp

DHS's rule will end the 540-day automatic extension of EADs (work permits), a move that will harm workers, families, and employers while doing nothing to lessen the processing backlogs. TAKE ACTION and submit a comment by December 1, 2025 https://bit.ly/4hWDpkr

"As part of his due process rights, his attorneys also say he is entitled to have an immigration judge review the immigration officer’s determination that Abrego Garcia is unlikely to be persecuted or tortured in Liberia." https://bit.ly/4nLfg1t

"Inside San Diego's Immigration Court - An in-depth look at how the Trump administration's policies are changing San Diego’s Immigration Court system and the fallout for local communities." https://bit.ly/47V7lJn

During 2025 Pro Bono Week, AILA held a roundtable on Managing Pro Bono in Trump 2.0. Ever wondered how to get started doing pro bono immigration work? Watch this clip to learn more! https://youtu.be/zSdNJzrNhcA

"Bustamante predicted, based on this and other research, that both a revived public charge rule and the loss of ACA subsidies for legal immigrants will have spillover effects for the entire population." https://politi.co/3JX0OWr

"The Trump administration is exploring buying warehouses that were designed for clients like Amazon and retrofitting them as detention facilities for immigrants before they are deported, a move that would vastly expand the government’s detention capacity." https://nbcnews.to/43SF70o

"Huynh’s encounter demonstrates the difficulty people have just figuring out what agency an officer represents, especially since most DHS agencies do not have standard uniforms." https://cnn.it/4hQVAIh

"The cable's language appears at odds with the Foreign Affairs Manual, the State Department's own handbook, which says that visa officers cannot reject an application based on 'what if' scenarios, Wheeler said." https://cbsn.ws/4hPPfNd

The Administration is undermining the integrity of the U.S. #immigration courts by prioritizing speed and enforcement over fairness and accuracy. Go to AILA's Take Action and demand Congress stop the Administration’s abuse of immigration courts. https://bit.ly/4oqiitb

"The bureau urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and to cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to a local police precinct." https://bit.ly/4oXawXC

"Advocates have raised concerns about Broadview’s conditions for months, and the facility has drawn scrutiny from members of Congress. Lawyers and relatives of people held there have called it a de facto detention center." https://bit.ly/49qdIXx

"For years, the construction industry — in which on average one in three workers is foreign-born — has struggled with a yawning labor shortage that President Trump's immigration crackdown is making worse, industry officials warn." https://n.pr/47Z77lw

"Every few months this year, a new class of judges gets termination notices in the middle of the day, often while they are in the middle of immigration court proceedings." https://n.pr/4oP6PDk

Birthright citizenship "embodies American ideals of equality and opportunity, ensuring that all born here share in the nation’s promise regardless of ancestry," writes AILA member Gunda Brost. Read more on the #ThinkImmigration blog. https://bit.ly/4nMZIun

"As parents dropped their children inside a Spanish immersion day care in Chicago Wednesday morning, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers stormed the building to detain a child care worker." https://bit.ly/4qKtCC6