Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) celebrates the Obama administration’s announcement that it will grant deferred action to DREAM Act-eligible immigrants.
In the public debate over immigration, it is easy to get caught up in the politics and complexity of the laws and to see immigrant rights as an “issue” rather than as the personal lived experience it is for so many people.
In Vartelas v. Holder, the Court considered whether the 1996 law changes retroactively affected the ability of lawful permanent residents to make brief visits abroad.
Statement by Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center In last night’s State of the Union address , President Obama acknowledged that a welcoming immigration policy will play a critical role in restoring our country’s economic health.
This holiday season, more than 5,000 children across the United States wrote to President Obama asking for him to make their wish a reality: that no more families be torn apart by deportation and detention.
