AILA Press Release: “Senate Fails to Put Any Checks or Balances on Trump Administration’s Mass Detention and Deportation Plans”

On February 21, 2025, AILA issued this press release critiquing the Senate’s approval of a budget resolution including $350 billion (!) for immigration enforcement.

The press release includes quotes from AILA’s leadership including this powerful quote from AILA’s President Kelli Stump:

“This budget fails to impose any Constitutionally guaranteed guardrails or protections on President Trump’s mass deportation targets. Even worse, it focuses solely on enforcement and deportation instead of improving our archaic immigration laws. In my nearly 20 years of experience in immigration law, representing individuals, families, and employers from both sides of the aisle, the one thing they all have in common is their desire for legal pathways. This budget hands the Trump administration vast sums to implement a mass deportation plan without building in other legal avenues for immigrants. Congress has an obligation to ensure that taxpayer money is spent in ways that actually make communities safer and more prosperous, not political theater that bans and targets immigrants. If enacted, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) budgets would increase by ten-fold from their current levels of $30 billion. Americans will see ICE agents doing raids in their communities — even at schools, churches, their favorite restaurants, and hospitals. What if we used that money to fix the system instead of incite fear?”

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