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- Nonprofit legal services organizations are suing the Trump administration to restore a critical national program that provided federal funding for legal representation for people deemed mentally incompetent who are detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On April 25, the…
- Today, the White House released President Trump’s “skinny” FY 2026 budget—an outline that will shape FY2026 appropriations discussions ahead of the full request that is expected later this month. Mirroring the budget proposals Trump is pushing Congress to adopt with the reconciliation process, the…
- WASHINGTON, DC — On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee marked up their portion of Congress’s supercharged budget bill, which aims to dramatically change existing immigration laws and dismantle key protections for unaccompanied immigrant children, leaving them more vulnerable to harm and…
- The House of Representatives is currently considering a mega spending bill that would give the Trump administration up to $200 billion taxpayer dollars that would otherwise go to critical programs like Medicaid, Social Security, CHIP, and SNAP. The $200 billion, split between House Judiciary and…
- The Trump administration issued an Executive Order on April 28 in a new attack on jurisdictions that protect all residents regardless of immigration status. National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) Executive Director Mary Meg McCarthy responded with the following statement: “Trump’s continuing…
- Washington, D.C. – Nine immigrants’ rights organizations filed a renewed Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) to block the Trump administration’s termination of critical legal orientation programs for immigrants, including the Family Group Legal Orientation Program, Counsel for Children Initiative,…
- The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) submitted a comment to the Federal Register today calling for the recission of a sweeping new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule which requires millions of immigrants to register with the U.S. government and appear in person at DHS offices to…
- A beloved father, grandfather, and youth mentor from Harlem, New York, who has lived in the United States for more than 50 years, was detained Tuesday in New York City during a scheduled check-in at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office. Robert Panton, 59, now faces…
- National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) Executive Director Mary Meg McCarthy responded to the March 21 White House memo, “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Courts,” with the following statement: “The National Immigrant Justice Center’s legal services have kept families…
- Update: On March 28, 2025, a federal court judge temporarily enjoined the Trump administration’s termination of legal services for unaccompanied immigrant children. The court order came in response to a lawsuit filed on behalf of the National Immigrant Justice Center and other impacted…