The United States is a country of immigrants, enriched by generations who have fueled our shared economy and contributed to American culture. In 2024, 46% of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants. But accelerating immigration across our Southern border has challenged communities and overwhelmed our immigration courts.
There’s a clear need to modernize immigration laws to welcome immigrants in a fair and orderly way. Donald Trump has helped none of this – his bigoted language and politicization of the issue have served only to block bipartisan approaches such as those negotiated by Senators Lankford and Murphy in 2024. As President, he has repeated the cruelty of his first term, upending communities with his “largest deportation program in American history” and even invoking the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law last used in World War II, to deport people without federal court review. Shamefully, Trump has also sought to end protections for asylum seekers and dismantle the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, terminating all contracts with resettling organizations.
Call on Congress to reject appropriating funds for an inhumane mass deportation effort or for using the military to engage in immigration law enforcement functions, and instead pass comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border, protects asylum seekers, and restores the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.
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Following passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” law, which included $170 billion for immigration enforcement and border security, the Trump administration has continued to pursue heavy-handed mass deportation enforcement actions that have shocked the public, including the use of masked agents in plainclothes picking up individuals off the streets. A raid of a Hyundai factory in Georgia, part of the company’s $25 billion dollar investment into the United States, led to the arrest and removal of 300 South Korean workers – many of who claimed a legal right to work – straining relations between America and South Korea, whose president warned that the incident would have “considerable impact on foreign direct investment in the U.S.”
Despite the administration’s rhetoric about going after dangerous criminals, the majority of immigrants being detained have no criminal record. This crackdown on nonviolent immigrants has led to labor shortages in industries dependent on migrant workers, like the agricultural sector, forcing some farmers to halt produce operations. Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s efforts to curb legal immigration, including through terminating the Temporary Protected Status for nearly one million individuals legally authorized to work in the United States, threatens to worsen shortages in the health care and manufacturing sectors. Now, people who have lived and worked lawfully in their communities for decades are at risk of being sent to third countries they’ve never visited.
