Defund Hate Coalition Encourages Strong Oversight of ICE Spending During Continuing Resolution The Defund Hate Coalition applauds appropriations committee leadership for enforcing Congress’s power of the purse and rejecting future attempts to misuse federal appropriations laws to expand Trump’s…

ICE Barred From Issuing Arrest Requests Based on Error-Ridden Databases In a landmark ruling addressing the legality of ICE’s signature deportation program, Secure Communities, a federal judge issued a permanent injunction blocking the agency from issuing arrest requests based solely on error-…

As House Judiciary Members Hear Testimony on Expansion of ICE Detention, Now is the Time for Congress to Cut Funding for Abusive System At a House Judiciary Committee hearing scheduled for September 26, members of Congress will hear testimony from immigrants who have been detained in the abusive U…

Five families enduring lasting emotional and physical suffering seek accountability for the federal government’s intentional infliction of trauma Five asylum-seeking mothers and their children who were torn apart under the Trump administration’s family separation policy have filed a lawsuit…

Collaboration Seeks to Expand Access to Counsel for Asylum Seekers and Other Migrants The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) launched an initiative with the Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., to provide lawyers to asylum seekers and advocate for an end to the criminalization of migration…

WASHINGTON, D.C. - More than 200 non-governmental organizations sent a letter to Congress today calling for members to cut the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) budget for detention, enforcement, and border militarization, and to put accountability measures in place to stop the agency’s pattern…

On September 11, 2019, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to bar virtually all asylum seekers entering the country through the southern border. National Immigrant Justice Center Executive Director Mary Meg McCarthy responds:  The highest court in the land is allowing the…

CONTACT: Mariya Parodi, media@aiusa.org   Alejandra Barrera, a transgender Salvadorian activist who had been held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention since November 2017, was released late Friday, September 6, 2019, as a result of international advocacy efforts,…

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 21, 2019) —The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) condemns the Trump administration’s new regulation, announced today, which will allow the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to jail children indefinitely in unlicensed detention facilities and terminate a decades-…

Defund Hate Coalition Members Call on Congress to Oppose any Transfer of Money to ICE Politico has reported that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has notified congressional appropriators of its plans to — yet again — pull massive amounts of money from certain agencies to expand U.S.…