Racist immigration prosecutions block asylum access and separate families The Biden administration announced today plans to increase its reliance on criminal prosecutions for immigration violations. This announcement is part of a misguided and chilling trend of the Biden administration adding new…

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) denounces the Biden administration’s continued deportations of asylum seekers to Haiti, a country which the administration itself has acknowledged to be unsafe and unstable. Despite the most recent round of violent civil unrest that has embroiled Haiti…

The National Immigration Project, Legal Aid Justice Center, and National Immigrant Justice Center today submitted a civil rights complaint on behalf of Manuel*, an individual facing abusive and negligent conditions in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Farmville Detention Center.…

The Biden administration released a new proposed rule yesterday adding more restrictions to already compromised asylum systems at the U.S.-Mexico border. The changes would dramatically limit access to asylum — a life-saving protection that for decades has been available for people fleeing…

Marks 40th Anniversary Providing Immigration Legal Services and Advocating for Immigrant Justice  The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC, NFP) announced today that it has relaunched as an independent 501(c)(3) organization to continue its mission of defending human rights protections and…

After President Biden signed a 2024 spending bill that provides $3.4 billion for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to jail 41,500 immigrants per day, 200 NGOs delivered a letter to the White House today opposing this unprecedented expansion of the immigration detention system. Read the…

WASHINGTON, DC (April 23, 2024) – Today, attorneys presented oral arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Sandra Muñoz, a U.S. citizen and California civil rights attorney who has spent nearly 10 years apart from her husband after the State Department denied his visa without reason.…

Dozens of individuals and organizations, including members of Congress, former immigration and consular officers, the American Bar Association, law professors, advocates, and faith-based groups, have signed amicus briefs submitted this week to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of California civil…

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 21, 2024) – Congress released its Fiscal Year 2024 funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today; the bill will make the detention and border enforcement system more dangerous and deadly while under-resourcing civil society and communities that provide…

Azadeh Erfani, senior policy analyst at NIJC, responded to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today to allow Texas Senate Bill 4 (S.B. 4) to go into effect while the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals considers its constitutionality: “With this decision, the U.S. Supreme Court opens the doors for…