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NIAC Action Congressional Scorecard

NIAC Action has released our Congressional Scorecard – a comprehensive resource compiling Members’ positions on issues that have dominated this year’s foreign policy and civil rights landscape.

ICE Detentions of Iranian Nationals: Community Tracker

This is a regularly updated community tracker of publicly available information on Iranian nationals detained by ICE in 2025. This is not a complete list, and does not reflect full data on all Iranian nationals detained by ICE.

Nationwide Poll of Iranian Americans

YouGov poll finds Iranian Americans overwhelmingly oppose war, support diplomacy.

No War With Iran Action Hub

Visit our No War With Iran Action Hub for the latest updates and how you can take action for PEACE.

Travel Ban & Immigrant Justice Resource Center

Your hub to understand, prepare for, and push back against a renewed travel ban and ICE raids targeting our communities.

Latest News

December 4, 2025

Second Iran Deportation Flight Imminent, Vulnerable Iranians Must Be Protected

December 3, 2025

National Iranian American Council Condemns Trump’s Halt of Immigration Applications

December 3, 2025

اقدامات تازه دولت ترامپ علیه ایرانیان و دیگر مهاجران

December 3, 2025

The Trump Administration’s Latest Actions Against Iranian and Other Immigrants

December 1, 2025

Admin Announces Discriminatory Targeting After Horrific Shooting of National Guards

November 20, 2025

NIAC Sues ICE for Documents on Detentions of Iranians and Deportations to Iran

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Senator Bernie Sanders

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Congresswoman Ilhan Omar

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Congresswoman Barbara Lee

NIAC in the News

Dec 6, 2025

Trump administration set to deport more Iranians back to their home country

The National Iranian American Council, a nonprofit organization, called on the administration to halt the flight. “Iranians like the ones on this imminent deportation flight come here to escape government repression. It is disturbing that, instead of honoring their asylum claims and offering them safety, our own government may be violating their human rights and compounding the harm done to them with abuses in detention,” the group’s president, Jamal Abdi, said in a statement.

Dec 3, 2025

Lawmakers decry Trump’s immigration halt for 19 countries: ‘scapegoating entire nationalities’

The National Iranian American Council also issued a statement, saying: “The level of anguish and insecurity this will cause, on top of already rampant and arbitrary deportations of Iranian nationals, is difficult to understate. People who should be approaching their citizenship ceremony day with joy are suddenly seeing their futures in upheaval.”

Dec 1, 2025

Trump’s Crackdown in Wake of Shooting Blocks Legal Pathways for Migrants

“Fortunately, this is a nation of laws, and the more status people have, the more rights people have,” said Ryan Costello, the policy director at the National Iranian American Council, which lobbies on behalf of Iranian Americans. “But it is certainly a time of a lot of uncertainty and concern in the community.”

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