Category: Legislation
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This summary of state-specific legislation was created by AMICA, in Washington DC to summarize existing state-specific pro-immigrant legislation.
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Here’s an AI summary of the Border Act of 2024. The Border Act of 2024 (S. 4361), negotiated by Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), was a proposed bipartisan bill that aimed to significantly reform the U.S. immigration and asylum systems. It was not enacted into law, as it failed to pass…
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This article shares details of the border wall contracts that have been signed by Department of Homeland Security.
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The National Immigration Law Center has provided this explainer of the anti-immigrant policies in the 2025 Reconciliation Bill. These changes include:
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In May, the Colorado Senate passed Senate Bill 25-276 which requires all public healthcare facilities to adopt and publish policies and procedures that protect patient privacy including (1) handling requests from immigration enforcement agents, (2) restricting access to nonpublic areas and (3) ensure sensitive information such as immigration or citizenship status is not collected unless…
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Based on a law that was passed by Congress in 2005 and revised procedurally in 2020, the federal government (CBP and ICE) is now collecting DNA samples from non-citizen and, as of April 2025, over 2.6 million samples have been collected. From each sample, the FBI creates a profile and enters it into CODIS – a…
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by Andrea Castillo Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he wants to hire 10,000 new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and 3,000 new Border Patrol agents, but experts and the history of law enforcement hiring sprees suggest the process could be challenging, lengthy and possibly result in problematic hires. The massive…
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3 Democrat-led states have rolled back health care for undocumented immigrants Lorem ipsum commmentary