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Signers call on Congress to reject any funding deal that will allow a corrupted and abusive Department of Homeland Security to further militarize the border and harm immigrant communities More than 200 non-governmental and advocacy organizations sent a letter to congressional leadership today in…

Seasoned Litigator Will Lead Legal Team The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) announced the appointment of Joshua Karsh as the group’s first legal director. In this capacity, Karsh will lead NIJC’s legal team as it continues to provide quality legal services and fight policies and executive…

Undocumented survivors of violence and trafficking who apply for legal status in the United States will now be placed in deportation proceedings if their petitions are denied, according to a new policy announced yesterday by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The policy marks a…

Update: On November 19, 2018, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court of San Francisco ordered the Trump administration to resume accepting asylum applications from migrants, no matter where they entered the United States. The order temporarily blocks the administration's asylum ban until the…

With news reports that the Trump administration is considering a new “travel ban” to block men, women, and children currently traveling together through Mexico as a caravan from seeking asylum in the United States, the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) calls on the White House and Congress…

Civil rights groups argue forced separation policy constitutes torture A Salvadoran mother whose son was taken from her by U.S. immigration officials at the southern U.S. border seven months ago continues to fight for her right to be with her child. Today, she filed a lawsuit in the federal…

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) condemns the Trump administration’s newest hurdle to immigrants seeking to obtain lawful status and maintain secure lives in the United States. The Department of Homeland Security’s proposed changes to “public charge,” published today in the Federal…

As the U.S. government continues to accept comments on proposed regulations which would allow the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to jail children and families indefinitely and roll back basic requirements for how they are treated in custody, the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) has…

The National Immigrant Justice Center vehemently opposes new legislation introduced by Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), S. 3478, which would require the automatic and indefinite jailing of all asylum-seeking families arriving at the U.S. southern border, permit family separation in a wide variety of…

An asylum seeker who remains separated from her four-year-old son and detained in a federal immigration prison nearly six months after immigration officers separated them at the southern border will bring legal action today to demand they be allowed to reunite. The Salvadoran mother, referred to…