Washington, D.C. — A federal judge today ordered the Trump administration to reinstate a critical national program that provided federal
Yesterday, NIJC filed a complaint on behalf of an individual, A.R.*, who is experiencing severe abuses and life-threatening conditions in immigration detention.
NIJC’s Statement for the Record for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Hearing on Eliminating the Abuse of Solitary Confinement Overview: For over three decades, the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) has dedicated itself to ensuring human rights protections and access to justice for immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.
“When a person is sick, he needs help.” A mother whose son died by suicide in May following more than six years in immigration detention, together with an Illinois mother whose own mental health deteriorated rapidly during the 10 months she was locked up by immigration officials, called on members of Congress last week to end the U.S. government’s detention…
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) and three people previously detained at different U.S. immigrant detention centers filed a federal civil rights complaint today demanding a system-wide investigation into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) failures to provide adequate mental health care for people in its custody and its abusive use of solitary confinement.
Teddy Birhanu lived in the United States as a lawful permanent resident for more than decade before the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deported him to his native Ethiopia because of his mental health.
Thousands of immigrants, many of them mentally ill, have been sentenced to solitary confinement in immigration detention centers across the country, according to a series of stories released today by NBC News and The Intercept .
