Why Women are Important in Immigration Reform
Ninety-three years ago today women won the right to vote with the certification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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Rethink Immigration: This is Why the One-Year Asylum Deadline Has to Go
The one-year asylum filing deadline, which requires that people apply for asylum within one year of their arrival in the United States, has resulted in thousands of survivors of persecution being turned away because of an arbitrary, technical barrier.
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Rethink Immigration: Right to a Lawyer? The Fiction of Legal Counsel in Immigration Proceedings
This week marked the 50th anniversary of Gideon vs.
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Rethink Immigration: Moms Will Do Whatever it Takes to Protect Their Children
Congress needs to understand something important as it works to pass a new immigration law: Neither a border nor even the threat of detention can keep a determined parent from trying to reach a child who needs her care.
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Rethink Immigration: Healthy Families Need More than Work Permits
“Rethink Immigration” is a new blog series in which National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) staff, clients, and volunteers share their unique perspectives and specific reco mmendations on what Congress and the Obama administration must include in comprehensive immig ration reform to create an inclusive, fair, and humane immigration system.
CECE V. HOLDER
Johana Cece is an Albanian woman who was targeted by organized crime figures in Albania for forced sex trafficking. She fled Albania to escape, and applied for asylum.
Courageous Women Escape Persecution, Find a New Battle in America’s Asylum System
Nearly a decade ago, two women from countries far apart fled gender-based violence and sought protection in the United States.
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Asylum Amicus: NIJC Argues Forced IUD Insertion is Persecution
On August 26, 2011, NIJC filed an amicus brief in support of the asylum application of Mei Fun Wong.