Press Releases

As ICE Continues to Violate Child Protection Laws, Young Mother Joins NIJC Class-Action Lawsuit   WASHINGTON, D.C. - A teen mother who fled to the United States from El Salvador with her toddler son and spent two weeks at an Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) shelter for unaccompanied…

Today, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced it has rescinded its policy of jailing pregnant women only in cases involving extraordinary circumstances. Instead, the agency intends to treat pregnant women as it would anyone else, using a “case-by-case custody determination” process…

Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, executive director, National Immigrant Justice Center The National Immigrant Justice Center is deeply disappointed in congressional Republicans’ continuing obstruction of efforts to achieve a permanent solution for immigrant Dreamers, keep families together, and end…

New Resource for Local Governments Seeking to Navigate Trump Rhetoric on ICE Detainers WASHINGTON, D.C. - Five leading immigrant and civil rights organizations issued a joint report today detailing the illegalities inherent in each of the U.S. government’s repeated attempts to enlist local law…

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) filed a class action lawsuit today on behalf of immigrant teenagers who came to the United States alone and later were transferred from government shelters to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers when they turned 18. Many,…

NIJC Condemns Weakening of Due Process as Government Targets More Immigrants for Prolonged Detention Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center CHICAGO - The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is deeply disappointed by today’s U.S. Supreme…

Congress Must Put an End to Cynical Politics and Pass a Clean Dream Act Now Statement by Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center CHICAGO - The U.S. Supreme Court today unanimously denied the Trump administration’s request to review the legality of the Deferred…

A new report, ICE Lies: Public Deception, Private Profit, released today by Detention Watch Network and the National Immigrant Justice Center, exposes Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) egregious patterns of fiscal irresponsibility, opacity in management, and disregard for congressional…

LOS ANGELES—On Thursday, a federal court in California ruled that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) unlawfully detained thousands of suspected immigrants on the basis of unconstitutional requests from ICE known as immigration detainers…

Statement by Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center President Trump’s immigration plan is an assault on immigrants, refugees, and the will of American voters. The majority of Americans support a clean Dream Act for the more than one million individuals who arrived…