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- 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…
- TRP and Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center to assist 20,000 immigrants with legal protection On Wednesday, December 14th, The Chicago City Council approved the budget for Chicago’s Legal Protection Fund. As a result of this approved budget, The Resurrection Project (TRP) and…
- National Immigrant Justice Center Demands Delay of Man’s Deportation, Full Investigation of November 9 Beating James Chesire with his wifeA man who has been detained and awaiting deportation to Kenya for nearly two years filed a federal lawsuit today alleging that on November 9, five federal…
- Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is pleased to announce a new partnership with the City of Chicago to expand access to legal counsel for immigrants in Chicago. “Legal services are more critical than ever as President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to increase…