Today, President Biden announced yet another anti-immigrant executive action that will effectively shut down the U.S.-Mexico border to thousands of people fleeing harm and seeking safety.
Racist immigration prosecutions block asylum access and separate families The Biden administration announced today plans to increase its reliance on criminal prosecutions for immigration violations.
This week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer plans to call the Senate to vote on S. 4361, an anti-immigrant bill led by Senator Chris Murphy.
The Biden administration released a new proposed rule yesterday adding more restrictions to already compromised asylum systems at the U.S.-Mexico border.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 21, 2024) – Congress released its Fiscal Year 2024 funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today; the bill will make the detention and border enforcement system more dangerous and deadly while under-resourcing civil society and communities that provide respite and integration services to newly arriving immigrants.
Azadeh Erfani, senior policy analyst at NIJC, responded to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today to allow Texas Senate Bill 4 (S.B. 4) to go into effect while the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals considers its constitutionality: “With this decision, the U.S. Supreme Court opens the doors for one of the most extremist and anti-immigrant policies in U.S. history to…
More than 150 international, community, legal, human rights, and faith-based organizations have come together to raise alarm to Biden administration officials regarding reports that the president may use executive power to implement punitive immigration policies emulating the failed and inhumane actions of his predecessor, which would endanger people seeking asylum at the U.S. border. “Your first year in office restored…
For too long, extremist lawmakers and commentators have shaped the immigration debate through misinformation and rhetoric that demonizes people seeking safety and a better life.
Over the weekend, the public finally saw the text of a proposed federal funding bill that senators and White House officials have been negotiating for weeks behind closed doors.
January 2024 Asylum adjudications are complex and the stakes are life-and-death, yet far too often fairness is sacrificed for speed.
A legislative grab bag of hate-based anti-asylum provisions, first introduced in Congress earlier this year in a House bill known as H.R. 2 , has since made its way into negotiations over an unrelated supplemental funding package for foreign military aid.
Nationwide Rapid Deportations, Evisceration of Asylum Protections Reportedly on the Table in White House Negotiations Media outlets are reporting that President Biden is willing to support the creation of a nationwide program through which immigrants around the country would face immediate deportation and expulsion without any due process.
