Press Releases

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…

Twenty-two people, including a U.S. citizen from Chicago, subjected to unlawful arrests and detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the early weeks of the second Trump administration, are asking a federal court to demand the release of two people still detained and additional…

Today, the Senate passed a catastrophic funding bill that previously passed the House on majority partisan lines. This funding bill keeps the government funded through September of this year, and is a substitute for bipartisan negotiated appropriations bills and reports that typically accompany…

Immigrant rights advocates filed a new federal lawsuit challenging the government’s Mandatory Bars Rule, which imposes additional barriers to protection for people fleeing persecution and torture in their home countries. Amica Center for Immigrant Rights, the National Immigrant Justice Center, the…

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) welcomes today’s introduction of the bipartisan Dream and Promise Act by U.S. Representative Sylvia Garcia of Texas.  NIJC Executive Director Mary Meg McCarthy responded to the introduction with the following statement:  “The Dream and…

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) condemns the U.S. Senate passage of its inhumane budget resolution that would slash vital federal programs, including SNAP and Medicaid, in order to direct up to $350 billion toward President Trump’s mass detention and deportation agenda. The Senate…