Thank you, Judge Williams for introducing me here today and thank you to the National Immigrant Justice Centre for giving me this wonderful award and for inviting me back to Chicago where I spent a very happy time last year at the University of Chicago.
We’re in the final months of 2015 and we wanted to share some of the things NIJC’s supporters made possible and the lives we helped changed together.
This blog post was originally posted on the AILA Leadership Blog.
View our interactive timeline of the history of family detention It’s been just over a year since the Obama Administration vastly expanded the detention of immigrant families in the United States in response to the increase in children arriving from the Northern Triangle countries of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The federal immigration appellate board has found that a Guatemalan woman is eligible for asylum protection based on life-threatening abuse she suffered at the hands of her spouse.
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) and pro bono partners at McDermott, Will and Emery filed a complaint in the United States District Court arguing that the government improperly requires abused stepchildren to remain in relationship with their abusive stepparents in order to receive protection under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
L.D.G. sought U visa protection after she and her children were kidnapped and assaulted in Illinois in 2006. As a result of the crimes committed against them and related ongoing threats, the family was forced them to close their business.
Every year on Mother’s Day, we honor the special role mothers play in our lives.
Today as we celebrate International Workers Day, also known as May Day, countless immigrant workers lack necessary protections to prevent and combat work place abuse.
Less than three months into the federal fiscal year, the U.S. government already has reached its U visa quota for victims of crime.
In May, our client Maria* was granted asylum after fleeing an abusive relationship in El Salvador.
