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- Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, executive director, Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center According to media reports, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has confirmed it will begin arresting the undocumented parents, guardians, and sponsors of unaccompanied immigrant…
- Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center Today’s Supreme Court decision on President Trump’s travel and refugee executive orders will have disastrous consequences for travelers from Muslim-majority countries and refugees worldwide.…
- The U.S. Supreme Court this week found that the Immigration and Naturalization Act’s provisions on citizenship discriminated on the basis of gender, by allowing unmarried U.S. citizen mothers to convey citizenship to their children more easily than other U.S. citizens. Unfortunately, the Court held…
- A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court today rejected the government’s draconian view of the aggravated felony definition in the context of statutory rape offenses. The government has argued for over a decade that statutory rape offenses are aggravated felonies, even misdemeanor offenses involving high…
- The Illinois House voted 62-49, with 7 abstentions, to forbid local law enforcement from complying with unconstitutional detention requests from the federal immigration agency. If signed into law, the TRUST Act (SB-31) will be the strongest state-level legal protection in the nation creating a…
- Following Congress’s Vote to Fund Massive Increase in Deportation Apparatus, Letter Calls for Less Detention, More Accountability WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the wake of Congress’s vote to approve a budget significantly expanding funding for the Trump administration’s federal deportation apparatus, 271…
- As public support grows, Senate victory hoped to carry over into House of Representatives In an important victory for a diverse coalition of communities, the Illinois Senate today passed the TRUST Act with a vote of 31 to 21. As Illinois and other governments across the country seek to protect…
- Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, executive director, National Immigrant Justice Center The ruling from the federal court in San Francisco that the Trump administration’s threats to eliminate federal funds for local governments that refuse to participate in federal immigration enforcement is the…
- Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) This morning, The New York Times revealed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to jettison its standards for detained immigrants and shutter the office tasked with advancing reforms in an…
- Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center The number of people entering the United States without authorization has been decreasing for years, yet U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ visit to the southern border today set the stage for the…