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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- Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) filed 13 complaints in April 2011 with the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and Office of Inspector General demanding that the Obama administration investigate abuse allegations and…
- A survey of U.S. immigration detention facilities by Heartland Alliance's National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) shows that as the Obama administration detains more immigrants than ever before, many lack access to affordable legal services because they are held in remote locations and non-…
- Heartland Alliance's National Immigrant Justice Center applauds U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's withdrawal of an earlier decision by his predecessor, Attorney General Michael Mukasey, which undercut immigrants' rights to competent legal counsel. Mukasey's ruling imposed significant challenges…