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Events & Webinars

Upcoming Events

BIA Appeals Training for Pro Bono Attorneys

September 16 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm CDT
Zoom

8th Annual NIJC Community for Immigrant Justice 5K

Collage of three photos from the 2024 5K for Immigrant Justice. People sprint out of the start line at the beginning of a race on a sunny fall day, with a crushed gravel trail and large trees lining the path. Families walk and smile at the beginning of the race, some push strollers. A toddler laughs and runs towards the finish line with their grandparent closely following.
November 7 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm EST
Millrace Trail
Goshen, IN United States + Google Map

Webinars

U.S. Supreme Court building

Recording | SCOTUS Decisions and the Impact on Immigrants

2026-07-17
Experts from NIJC give a breakdown of how the new budget bill impacts immigration policy and immigrants in our communities.
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Recording | More money, more violence: How Congress is poised to send billions more to ICE & Border Patrol

2026-04-20
Experts from NIJC give a breakdown of how the new budget bill impacts immigration policy and immigrants in our communities.
immigrant family outside home

Recording | Protecting Immigrant Rights in 2026: A Briefing with NIJC Experts

2026-01-14
Experts from NIJC give a breakdown of how the new budget bill impacts immigration policy and immigrants in our communities.

Recording | Urgent Community Briefing: The New Budget Bill’s Impact on Immigration and What Comes Next

July 10, 2025
Experts from NIJC give a breakdown of how the new budget bill impacts immigration policy and immigrants in our communities.

Recording: Advocating for Justice from the Border to Chicago to D.C.

July 14, 2023
Experts from NIJC's policy, federal litigation, and direct legal services teams held a hybrid event giving an insider update about how we are upholding the right to asylum, challenging asylum bans, ramping up legal services for people who are newly arriving to our communities, and bringing home people who were unjustly deported.

Webinar | Punishing Trauma: Incident Reporting and Immigrant Children in Government Custody

November 11, 2022
This joint webinar by the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) and the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights discusses our organizations' recent report, Punishing Trauma: Incident Reporting and Immigrant Children in Government Custody .

Justice & Java: What It Will Take To Save Our Asylum System

May 10, 2022
Right now is a critical moment for all of us to act to defend our country’s asylum system.

Policy Corner: Family Separation In The Biden Era

February 3, 2022
Immigrant families are still separated every day, and were long before the prior administration.

Justice & Java: Strength In The Face Of Struggle, Stories From Our Community

November 16, 2021
Justice is a series of small and large victories.

Policy Corner: ICE Detention Is Expanding

October 27, 2021
Since entering office, the Biden administration has nearly doubled the number of people locked in U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, extended existing contracts with private prison companies in some communities that have explicitly rejected ICE detention, started a contract to detain immigrant youth, and signed an agreement to open a new massive for-profit immigrant detention center.

Policy Corner: The Dangers Of Pushing Away The Right To Asylum

September 23, 2021
Authors from NIJC's policy team and FWD.us discuss their recently released report, "Pushing Back Protection: How Offshoring and Externalization Imperil the Right to Asylum." The report dives into dangerous policies of asylum offshoring and externalization led by the U.S., European nations, and Australia.

Justice & Java: What Has Changed With Immigration Under Biden?

August 10, 2021
On the campaign trail, now President Biden made many promises to address harmful policies implemented by the Trump administration and to create an immigration system that respects human rights.