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.
A broad coalition of immigration, civil and human rights organizations celebrate the reintroduction of the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act by House Representatives Pramila Jayapal and Adam Smith and Senator Cory Booker.
“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.
Winnfield, LA – An LGBTQ+ asylum-seeker in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody at a Louisiana county jail is calling for a civil rights investigation into the physical and homophobic verbal abuse he has experienced at the facility while in solitary confinement under protective custody.
After months of witnessing the explosion of COVID-19 cases in immigration jails and a completely insufficient response to prevent or stop it, Congress is holding a hearing today on the Oversight of ICE Detention Facilities: Examining ICE Contractors’ Response to COVID-19 .
On Thursday, September 26, the House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing about expansion of the abusive and already sprawling immigration detention system.
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 .
The U.S. Immigration Detention System is Cruel and Mismanaged The Trump administration has asked Congress for $2.7 billion dollars to lock up approximately 430,000 immigrants in fiscal year 2019. 1 This bid comes at a time when the number of immigrants jailed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is already nearly double what it was a decade ago. 2…
Joint statement by the American Immigration Council, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Detention Watch Network, Human Rights Watch, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, National Immigrant Justice Center, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, Open the Government, Project On Government Oversight, Women’s Refugee Commission Washington, D.C.— Civil society organizations across the country are calling on congressional appropriators to hold U.S. Immigration and Customs…
Last week, 35 members of Congress sent a letter to the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) calling for sharp limits on the use of detention of LGBTQ immigrants due to their vulnerability to sexual assault.
