More than 150 international, community, legal, human rights, and faith-based organizations have come together to raise alarm to Biden administration officials regarding reports that the president may use executive power to implement punitive immigration policies emulating the failed and inhumane…
In response to a White House supplemental funding request, U.S. senators have released text of a proposed funding bill designed to implement extreme anti-asylum and detention policies that would fail to effectively address migration challenges at the U.S.-Mexico border.
In short, the bill would:…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review the case of Sandra Munoz, a celebrated California civil rights attorney who has been kept separated from her husband for more than eight years since a U.S. consular officer denied his visa, purportedly due to false assumptions about his tattoos.
Mrs.…
Washington D.C. (January 4, 2024) – A renowned community leader from Harlem, New York, who has lived in the United States for 50 years filed an emergency request today asking President Biden to pardon a decades-old drug conviction so that he may avoid imminent deportation.
Robert Panton, a 56-year…
A group of noncitizens who have waited years for an initial review of their U visa applications is suing the U.S. government for failing to properly implement congressionally mandated processes which were created to alleviate the most acute harms faced by people trapped in growing backlogs.
The…
Nationwide Rapid Deportations, Evisceration of Asylum Protections Reportedly on the Table in White House Negotiations
Media outlets are reporting that President Biden is willing to support the creation of a nationwide program through which immigrants around the country would face immediate…
Members of Congress Must Reject Any Budget Negotiations Using Asylum Seekers as Political Pawns
Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) yesterday released the text of a new supplemental government spending package which, in addition to providing funds for foreign military aid, would put…
Salvadoran Man Receives Second Chance to Present His Claim for Protection from Religious Persecution
NEW ORLEANS (December 5, 2023) — A Salvadoran man who fled to the United States after being targeted for religious persecution has secured a positive published opinion in the Court of Appeals for…
A group of immigrants detained in inhumane conditions at New Mexico’s Torrance County Detention Facility (TCDF) is suing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for certifying a sham inspection in 2022 that allowed ICE to evade federal law and continue detaining immigrants at the facility…
NIJC Welcomes Redesignation of TPS for Venezuelans
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) welcomes the extension and redesignation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans who have been in the United States since July 31, 2023.
The Department of Homeland Security on Friday…