Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center With today’s revised executive order, the Trump administration admits that its original order blocking refugees and immigrants from Muslim-majority countries was a bad idea, yet continues to pursue unjust and ill…

Statement by Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center On Tuesday evening the president delivered his first speech to a joint session of Congress. His statements on immigration, like the policies he has promoted during his first weeks in office, relied on false…

Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center CHICAGO (February 17, 2017) — Today the public has been given a glimpse of a draft memo from the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security outlining the administration’s draconian plans, which, if accurate…

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the temporary restraining order entered by U.S. District Judge Robart, which prevents the Trump administration from applying its unlawful executive order banning entry to the United States of refugees and citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries…

Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center As a human rights organization that has been entrenched in the U.S. immigrant rights movement for 30 years, Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) has seen both the best and the worst of…

Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) decries the president’s odious efforts to shroud the U.S. immigration system in nativism and xenophobia. Today the president signed two orders…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has given a man living with HIV a second chance to remain in the United States, after his case was denied by immigration authorities. Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center and the law firm Winston & Strawn LLP represent…

NIJC Welcomes BRIDGE Act and Joins more than 850 Organizations Calling on Trump to Protect Immigrant Youth Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center America’s immigrants and their allies stand prepared to face a new presidential administration that has…

Statement by Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) applauds the Obama administration’s decision to dismantle the regulatory framework for the National Security Entry-Exit…

Phoenix, AZ - Sheriff Arpaio is landing in court once again due to his continued racial profiling and anti-immigrant pursuits. This morning Jacinta Gonzalez, a local resident and the field director for Mijente, filed a suit against the Sheriff and Maricopa County alleging that she was racially…