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- 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…
- Update: On February 21, 2025, the Trump administration rescinded, without explanation, the stop-work order that had abruptly cut funding for lawyers working with unaccompanied immigrant children. National Immigrant Justice Center Executive Director Mary Meg McCarthy responded with the…
- National Immigrant Justice Center and Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights Respond to Trump’s Attacks on Sanctuary Laws As immigrant rights organizations who together have served our Illinois and Chicago communities for more than four decades, the National Immigrant Justice Center…
- Trump’s proclamation is unlawful and unprecedented Immigrants’ rights advocates sued the Trump administration today over the president’s recent proclamation aimed at completely shutting down asylum at the border, a move that puts thousands of lives at risk. The American Civil Liberties Union,…
- Update: On January 24, 2025, in response to a federal court order, the Trump administration rescinded a stop-work order that had abruptly paused NIJC's Chicago Immigration Court Helpdesk. Below is the original statement announcing a lawsuit by NIJC and other legal services providers regarding the…