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    How States Are Fighting Back Against Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine

    How States Are Fighting Back Against Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine

    Published Jul 9, 2026 This report captures pro-immigrant state laws enacted in 2025 and bills signed in the first five months of 2026 to address immigration enforcement.

    Dignified Health Care Shouldn’t Stop With ICE Detention

    Dignified Health Care Shouldn’t Stop With ICE Detention

    Matthew Lopas and Jennifer Whitlock

    Published Jun 9, 2026 Health care workers and advocates deserve tools that can help them navigate the rising presence of ICE in hospitals, which is why we put together our new resource: Advocating on Behalf of Patients in Immigration Custody....

    Advocating On Behalf of Patients in Immigration Custody: A Resource for Health Care Providers and Medical Staff

    Advocating On Behalf of Patients in Immigration Custody: A Resource for Health Care Providers and Medical Staff

    Published Jun 9, 2026 This resource provides guidance for health care professionals on how to advocate and care for their patients with ICE and CBP agents present.

    States Are Saying No to ICE in Hospitals & Schools

    States Are Saying No to ICE in Hospitals & Schools

    Matthew Lopas

    Published May 15, 2026 In the last six months alone, legislators have introduced safe locations bills in 23 states....

    Overview of Immigrant Eligibility for Federal Programs

    Overview of Immigrant Eligibility for Federal Programs

    Published Jan 1, 2026 This resource focuses on eligibility and other rules governing immigrants’ access to federal public benefits programs. Originally published in November 2015.

    Why You Should Care About the Public Charge Rule and Its Racist Goals

    Why You Should Care About the Public Charge Rule and Its Racist Goals

    Matthew Lopas

    Published Dec 18, 2025 When the Department of Homeland Security released its proposed change to the public charge regulations last month, it was one more piece of the administration's broader agenda: racism. This vision is at the core of a presidential ideology that...

    How the House Budget Bill Attacks Health Care and Nutrition for Immigrants, Children, and Everyone Else

    How the House Budget Bill Attacks Health Care and Nutrition for Immigrants, Children, and Everyone Else

    Ben D’Avanzo and Matthew Lopas

    Published Jun 3, 2025 U.S. law is already unfairly restrictive for federal programs. Now, Congress is angling to make our laws even more cruel and regressive.

    On The Path Toward Health for All

    On The Path Toward Health for All

    Published Dec 11, 2023 At the National Immigration Law Center, we believe that all these paths must converge and lead to the realization of Health for All. With this series of publications, we hope to provide foundational policy support for all working toward this...

    ACA Replacement Bill Not a Good Deal for Immigrants

    ACA Replacement Bill Not a Good Deal for Immigrants

    Matthew Lopas

    Published Mar 16, 2017 The headlines regarding the American Health Care Act, the House Republicans’ Obamacare replacement bill, have rightly focused on the 24 million people the Congressional Budget Office expects will lose health care coverage if the bill is...

    Unpacking the References to Public Benefits and the Privacy Act in Trump’s Executive Order on Interior Enforcement

    Unpacking the References to Public Benefits and the Privacy Act in Trump’s Executive Order on Interior Enforcement

    Matthew Lopas

    Published Mar 1, 2017 One lesson President Trump’s administration learned from his campaign is that misinformation and fear are powerful tools—tools they are now using in drafting, releasing, and carrying out his executive orders. They are already putting these...

    States Reject Immigration Enforcement Measures and Advance Inclusive Policies in 2016

    States Reject Immigration Enforcement Measures and Advance Inclusive Policies in 2016

    Published Oct 6, 2016 This resource highlights the key victories and challenges faced by the immigrants' rights movement in 2016.

    Immigrant-inclusive State and Local Policies Move Ahead in 2014–15

    Immigrant-inclusive State and Local Policies Move Ahead in 2014–15

    Published Dec 6, 2015 After a landmark year in 2013, the immigrant-inclusive state measures enacted that year were implemented and gained ground in 2014–15. This report dives into what happened next.