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
Recording | SCOTUS Decisions and the Impact on Immigrants
Experts from NIJC give a breakdown of how the new budget bill impacts immigration policy and immigrants in our communities.
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.
18 Chicago Residents Brutalized by Federal Agents During a Military-Style Immigration Raid File Legal Claims Seeking Accountability and Justice
The claims against the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies detail the shocking experiences of residents at the hands of federal agents who stormed the building, broke down doors without warrants, and rounded up adults and children alike at gunpoint in the middle of the night.
Seventh Circuit Affirms Extension of Castañon Nava Consent Decree Holding ICE Accountable for Unlawful Warrantless Arrests
The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued a decision affirming an October 2025 ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey Cummings which extended the Castañon Nava Consent Decree and ordered the release of individuals unlawfully arrested without warrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol officers.
Detained Immigrants Challenge Trump-Vance Policy that Forces Automatic Denial of Applications
Lawsuit Seeks to Block New Policy that Keeps Noncitizens with Pending Immigration Applications from Completing Biometric Collection Washington, D.C. —
Federal Appeals Court Rules Trump Proclamation Eliminating Asylum is Unlawful
A federal appeals court today ruled that President Trump’s Day 1 proclamation aimed at completely shutting down asylum at the border is unlawful.
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.
5 Things We Are Demanding for Our Communities That You Won’t Hear About in the SOTU
As President Trump takes the podium for the 2026 State of the Union address, we anticipate a lot of hateful