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American Immigration Council

U.S. left-center, pro-immigration advocacy

Owned byAffiliated nonprofit of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA); operates as a standalone 501(c)(3) but was founded by AILA and retains close organizational ties
FundingFoundation grants — major funders include the Ford Foundation, Bloomberg Family Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and Unbound Philanthropy; reported roughly $8.3 million in revenue in 2023
On the administrationbroadly critical

Background

The organization was established in 1987 by the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) under the name American Immigration Law Foundation, created to serve as a public-education and policy arm alongside the lawyers' trade group. It operated under that name for more than two decades before rebranding as the American Immigration Council in 2009. In 2021 the Council merged with the Partnership for a New American Economy, an organization originally founded by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to advocate for immigration expansion on business grounds, broadening the Council's donor base and scope. The Council's work spans three main areas: legal advocacy and courtroom litigation challenging restrictive policies, policy research emphasizing the fiscal and social contributions of immigrants, and public-communications campaigns. It receives no government funding and is backed almost entirely by large left-of-center foundations. Media Bias/Fact Check rates it left-center in orientation and high for factual accuracy. The Council was a persistent critic of immigration enforcement during the first Trump administration (2017–2021) and has intensified that posture since January 2025, publishing reports with titles such as 'Mass Deportation: Analyzing the Trump Administration's Attacks on Immigrants, Democracy, and America' and 'In Just Six Months, Trump's Immigration Policy Has Built a Crueler World,' reflecting its role as an organized institutional opponent of the current administration's enforcement priorities.

Sources

  1. American Immigration Council — Wikipedia
  2. American Immigration Council — Ballotpedia
  3. American Immigration Council — InfluenceWatch
  4. American Immigration Council — Media Bias/Fact Check
  5. American Immigration Council — ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer
  6. Mass Deportation report — American Immigration Council
  7. Six Months of Trump Immigration Policy — American Immigration Council

Profile compiled 2026-07-03; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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