- Will Continue to Work to Expand Human Rights and Due Process Protections var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) applauds the U.S. Senate’s Gang of Eight for introducing immigration legislation that offers a roadmap to…
- More than 100 organizations have sent a letter to New York Senator Charles Schumer demanding that immigration reform legislation address the multiple human rights and due process abuses in the U.S. immigration detention system. In the letter, immigrant and human rights advocates applaud Senator…
- var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};Statement from National Immigrant Justice Center Executive Director Mary Meg McCarthy“The Department of Homeland Security’s decision to release hundreds of men and women from immigration detention in preparation for sequestration proves a point…
- Washington Presence Will Amplify On-the-Ground Realities in the Immigration Reform Debate var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is pleased to announce the opening of its Washington, D.C., office, under the leadership of…
- var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) welcomes the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) release of proposed Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) regulations, an important step toward ensuring basic human rights…
- National Campaign Targets Facility as One of the 10 Worst Immigration Detention Centers in the Country A national coalition of community leaders and advocates released a report today calling Tri-County Detention Center in Ullin, Illinois, one of the 10 worst immigration detention centers in the…
- Immigrants in detention facilities around the United States often are subjected to punitive and long-term solitary confinement and denied meaningful avenues of appeal, according to an investigation by Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) and Physicians for Human Rights (…
- EnglishEl Centro Nacional de Justicia Para Inmigrantes de Heartland Alliance (NIJC) esta complacido que tres provisiones que claramente son inconstitucionales de la ley de inmigración de Arizona, SB 1070, fueron rechazadas hoy por la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos. Pero, la Corte efectivamente…
- NIJC Calls on President Obama, Congress to Act Quickly to Protect Immigrant FamiliesEn españolHeartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is pleased that three patently unconstitutional provisions in Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law were struck down today by the U.S. Supreme…
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