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- This lawsuit challenges the Biden administration’s sweeping asylum ban and several new expedited removal policies that dramatically alter the screening interview process for asylum seekers and wrongfully return many back to persecution and grave danger. NIJC joined the American Civil Liberties…
- In April 2023, NIJC and Kirkland & Ellis LLP filed a class action against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for failing to timely adjudicate the asylum applications of thousands of Afghan people who entered the United States under Operation Allies Welcome. In September 2023,…
- The National Immigrant Justice Center joined the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Northern California, and Center for Gender & Refugee Studies in filing an amended complaint in East Bay Sanctuary Covenant et al. v. Biden et al., challenging the Biden administration’s asylum ban which…
- In September 2019, five asylum-seeking mothers and their children who were torn apart under the Trump administration’s family separation policy filed a lawsuit against the United States seeking compensation for the cruel treatment and agony U.S. immigration agencies inflicted on them. The five…
- This case was formerly known as Herrera Cardenas v. ICE In April 2022, NIJC and Sidley Austin LLP sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and multiple county officials from Clay County, Indiana, on behalf of people detained by ICE at the Clay County Jail. Lead plaintiffs, Cristhian Herrera…
- Case Summary Garcia Ramirez et al. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement et al., is a nationwide class-action lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for transferring unaccompanied minors who reach their 18th birthdays to…
- The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois approved a proposed settlement on February 8, 2022, in the class action lawsuit, Castañon Nava et al. v. Dep’t of Homeland Security et al., No. 18-cv-3757-RRP (N.D. Ill.). More information about the settlement agreement is available at…
- In the fall of 2019, the State of California enacted A.B. 32, which prohibits the operation of any private prison or detention facility in the state subject to a few limited exceptions. Both the GEO Group, Inc. and the United States sued California, claiming that A.B. 32 is unlawful as to…
- Updated June 9, 2020 As the COVID-19 pandemic paralyzes the nation, the administration persists in widespread civil immigration enforcement and detention despite clear warnings to the contrary from public health experts. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (…
- A rally calling on ICE to end Secure Communities outside the courthouse during trial in May 2019.Gonzalez v. ICE challenges various U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer practices, including the agency’s reliance on error-ridden databases to generate requests, known as detainers, for…