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American Immigration Council

U.S. center-left / pro-immigrant advocacy

The American Immigration Council is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit advocacy and legal organization that supports expanded immigrant rights and due process protections. It is funded by liberal-leaning foundations and donors rather than government or corporate money, and it frequently files lawsuits against federal immigration policy. Since 2025 it has been one of the most active legal opponents of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement agenda.

Owned byIndependent 501(c)(3) nonprofit; founded as the policy and legal arm affiliated with the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), with which it remains closely linked though it operates as a separate organization

LeaningU.S. center-left / pro-immigrant advocacy

On the administrationbroadly critical

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6.6average bias score across 5 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun

Stories

7 ICE Stops Listing Detainees With Final Removal Orders in Its Public Online Locator as of Sept. 15, AP Reports
7 Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Asylum Seekers Stopped at the Border Have Not 'Arrived' in the U.S., Reversing Ninth Circuit in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado
6 Federal Judge in Arizona Faults USCIS Justification for Withholding DACA Adjudication Records
6 Federal Judge in Ohio Orders USCIS to Resume Deciding Frozen Green Card and Work Permit Applications, Setting a 30-Day Deadline
7 Divided Fifth Circuit Panel Requires Bond Hearings for Immigrants Detained More Than 90 Days