Investigative reporting done by The Marshall Project and This American Life looks deeper into the shuffling of judges and cases in immigration courts in Laredo, Texas and around the border. Shortly after Donald Trump took office, he signed an executive order sending an influx of judges'…
- NIJC Executive Director Mary Meg McCarthy and Susan Gzesh from the University of Chicago’s Pozen Family Center for Human Rights spoke with Worldview host Jerome McDonnell about the harsh environment immigrants are living in today. They discussed the government shutdown, Dreamers, and how…
- Elected officials continue to debate the futures of DACA recipients, meanwhile DACA recipients are bracing themselves for the worst. Read full story.
- The Trump administration has taken away lawful status from more than 1 million people, On Jan 8, 2018, the Trump administration turned its focus on Salvadorans, canceling Temporary Protected Status thus stripping away lawful status from more than 250,000 law-abiding, tax-paying…
- DHS is seeking to drastically increase the capacity of immigration jails despite a recent report by the Office of the Inspector General finding egregious rights violations. One of the biggest benefactors of expansion are private prison corporations. Read the full story.
- The Chicago Tribune spoke with NIJC Leadership Board Member Abdus Samad Pardesi and his client (who he is representing pro bono through NIJC) who has already been waiting three years for her asylum case to be adjudicated. Thousands of immigrants with court cases in immigration courts are…
- Wilmer Catalan-Ramirez, a Chicago resident and NIJC client, was wrongfully placed in the Chicago gang database and now he faces deportation. Read the full story.
- U.S. authorities deny immigrants’ liberty without probable cause by detaining them for longer than they are supposed to. Read the full story.
- Chicago Magazine took a deeper look into "notario fraud." Immigrants need legal representation but when they receive bad advice it may result in their deportation. "Vanessa Esparza-López, managing attorney with the Immigrant Legal Defense Project of the Chicago-based National Immigrant…
- On Dec. 11 The Office of Inspector General released its report on its unannounced inspections of immigration detention centers, finding serious human rights violations. The investigation was prompted by reports from the NIJC and other immigrant and civil rights groups. Read the full NIJC…