U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas yesterday betrayed the Biden administration’s commitments to disentangle local policing from the federal detention and deportation system and called on local law enforcement agencies to assist DHS in the enforcement of federal civil…
- Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, the Senate parliamentarian issued a devastating advisory opinion, choosing to exclude immigration reform provisions in the Build Back Better Act and once again delaying life-saving measures to millions of undocumented people in communities across the country. Although…
- NIJC Attorneys’ Observations During First Week of MPP Reimplementation Affirm Advocates’ Warnings: There is No Way to Fix the Inhumane “Remain in Mexico” Program EL PASO, TEXAS (December 15, 2021) - Since December 9, National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) attorneys have attempted to offer…
- Español The use of illegal traffic stops and arrest practices by federal immigration enforcement officials will be curtailed under an agreement to resolve a lawsuit brought by Chicago area residents detained in ICE sweeps in 2018. The District Court for the Northern District of Illinois yesterday…
- NIJC Condemns the Biden Administration For Expanding and Reinstating the Dangerous and Inhumane Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP): MPP Survivor Shares Her Reaction Today the Biden administration announced its intention to begin returning asylum seekers to Mexico through the Migrant Protection…
- The National Immigrant Justice Center joins a growing chorus calling for the Biden administration to designate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Central American countries devastated in November 2020 by Hurricanes Eta and Iota. Hundreds of thousands of people in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua,…
- Nearly two months after leaders of 43 prominent human and civil rights organizations delivered a letter to the White House urging the Biden administration to take immediate action to end the violent expulsions of Haitian and other Black asylum seekers at the U.S-Mexico border and to restore asylum…
- National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) Executive Director Mary Meg McCarthy issued the following statement in response to President Biden’s comments today about family separation lawsuits brought by parents and children who were separated at the southern U.S. border under the Trump administration…
- Washington, D.C. -- The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) welcomes the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) long overdue issuance of a new memorandum terminating the inherently inhumane and unlawful Migration Protection Protocols (MPP), otherwise known as the “Remain in Mexico”…
- A coalition of local and national organizations filed a civil rights complaint today calling for the release of people detained in immigration detention and for an investigation into serious abuses committed against two men detained in the county jail in Glades County, Florida. The two men, both…