Announcement should be Biden administration’s first step toward reviewing cases and welcoming home all unjustly deported immigrants
WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 6, 2021) — The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) applauds the Biden administration’s announcement that the U.S. Department of Veterans…
Washington D.C. (June 24, 2021) -- The Biden administration announced it is expanding the scope of asylum seekers eligible to seek protection after having been harmed by the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also known as the Remain in Mexico program. This new phase contemplates reopening or…
The U.S. Attorney General issued two decisions, vacating harmful precedents from the Trump administration: Matter of A-B-, which adversely impacted asylum seekers fleeing gender- and gang-based violence, and Matter of L-E-A-, which harmed asylum seekers facing persecution because of their family.…
85 Organizations Request Meeting to Discuss Proposal to Establish a Centralized Process to Facilitate the Return of Deported Individuals
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), We Are Home campaign, and 85 civil rights organizations and law school clinics sent a letter to Homeland…
187 Organizations Push for the Protection of Individuals with Deportable Convictions
Washington D.C. -- Nearly 200 immigration, criminal justice, and civil rights organizations released a letter today urging the Biden administration to include immigrants in the pardon process, following…
Statement by National Immigrant Justice Center Executive Director Mary Meg McCarthy
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) condemns the Biden administration’s plan to force families who arrive in the United States seeking asylum to go through expedited court proceedings that will rob them of…
Two immigrant women are calling for a civil rights investigation into the life-threatening conditions and lack of COVID-19 protections they are experiencing in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody at an Indiana county jail.
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) filed the…
21 Legal Services Contractors Call for Restoration of Legal Access Programming in the Immigration Courts
We, the undersigned, are nonprofit legal service providers contracted through the government-funded Legal Orientation Program (LOP) to provide Know Your Rights programming and pro se assistance…
President Biden Delivered on His Promise to Ensure Protection for Haitians in the United State; Title 42 Expulsions Must Also End to Protect Black and Brown Migrants
WASHINGTON, D. C. — The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) applauds Black immigrant leaders, whose advocacy was instrumental…
WASHINGTON, D. C. — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Tae Johnson testified before the House Appropriations Committee this morning regarding ICE operations and priorities. His prepared statements and responses to congressional questioning evinced an alarming disregard…