Immigrant Rights Groups Sue to Protect Due Process for Asylum Seekers
New Lawsuit Seeks to Stop Trump Rule that Sends Asylum Seekers to Immigration Court Without Interviews Today, immigration legal service
DHS Is Detering Immigrants From Court and Planning to Charge Them $18,000
For months, the Trump administration has deterred immigrants from attending their hearings through fear tactics and late notices that give people little time to prepare. Now the administration proposes to charge people $18,000 if they are arrested after being ordered removed for missing a hearing.
NIJC Responds to Supreme Court Ruling Affirming Birthright Citizenship
While today’s ruling brings great relief for NIJC and our immigrant communities, it also affirms that the we must continue fighting to uphold our nation’s promise of or equal justice for all.
As U.S. Supreme Court Cosigns Trump’s Racist Anti-Immigrant Agenda, Congress Must Act to Protect Asylum Seekers and U.S. Communities
In two disastrous rulings today, the U.S. Supreme Court joined the Trump administration in dismantling U.S. laws that have been in place for generations to offer refuge to people fleeing persecution, violence, and natural disasters.
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Trump: Challenging the May 2023 “Circumventing Lawful Pathways” Asylum Ban
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 took effect in May 2023.
Oppose the New Trump Rule Eliminating Due Process at the Board of Immigration Appeals
Congress has the opportunity to put a stop to the violence inflicted by ICE and CBP’s Border Patrol by cutting the agencies’ fiscal year funding, demanding meaningful policy changes to end the impunity for the discriminatory abuses, and redirecting funds from their already bloated budgets to better fund programs that support the safety and wellness of U.S. communities.
Federal Court Blocks Significant Pieces of Administration’s Sweeping Immigration Appeals Rule That Eliminates Meaningful Judicial Review
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order in Amica Center for Immigrant Rights et al. v. Executive Office for Immigration Review et al., blocking significant pieces of the Trump-Vance administration’s new policy that sought to eliminate meaningful appellate review before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA).
Legal Services Organizations Sue to Block Sweeping Immigration Appeals Rule That Eliminates Meaningful Judicial Review
A lawsuit filed by the National Immigrant Justice Center and other legal services providers challenges a proposed Trump administration rule that imposes sweeping changes on the immigration system that would eviscerate noncitizens’ right to appeal bad decisions in their immigration cases.
NIJC Condemns Trump Administration’s Exploitation of Tragedy to Further Demonize Immigrants and Asylum Seekers
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) issued the following statement after the Trump administration announced a series of discriminatory policies last week following the
Did You Know? The Alien Enemies Act Can Be Used Against Children As Young As 14
To advance its mass deportation agenda, the Trump administration has reached for any power it can find to remove people from the country as quickly as possible and without due process. One of these power grabs is the administration’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. This explainer from the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights and National Immigrant Justice Center reviews the danger of the act’s application to children, the response from courts and experts, and the precarious use of gang and terrorism designations underpinning Trump’s use of this law.
Explainer | Trump and Congress’s Punishing New Immigration Fees
Congress imposed exorbitant fees for immigration applications — then the Trump administration made it even worse.
NIJC Responds to SCOTUS ruling in birthright citizenship case overturning universal injunctions
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court issued a ruling on June 27 limiting the ability of federal judges to