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- NIJC, Deported People and Families, Members of Congress, and Partner Organizations Urge U.S. Government to Remedy Unjust Deportations The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), along with members of Congress, unjustly deported immigrants and their family members, and immigrant rights advocates…
- NIJC’s Findings From 3 Weeks of Telephonic Legal Consultations in CBP Custody The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) released a new report today with preliminary observations of legal staff who have been attempting to provide legal consultations and representation to people who arrived at…
- Following last week’s visit of civil rights, human rights, and immigrants rights organizations to Matamoros and Reynosa, Mexico and the Texas Rio Grande Valley, the delegation today jointly released “LIVES AT RISK: Barriers and Harms As Biden Asylum Ban Takes Effect.” The report details the abysmal…
- A delegation of prominent national civil and immigrant rights leaders led by the Haitian Bridge Alliance visited locations in the Texas Rio Grande Valley and the Mexican state of Tamaulipas to bear witness to the end of Title 42 and the implementation of number of punitive policies along the border…
- The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Northern California, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, and National Immigrant Justice Center filed a legal challenge today to the Biden administration’s new asylum ban. The challenge was filed swiftly after the new policy’s unveiling. The ban…
- The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) condemns the border expulsion legislation, S.1473, proposed by Senators Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and Thom Tillis (R-NC). If enacted, the legislation would eviscerate the United States asylum system and result in mass expulsions to Mexico and mandatory…
- The Biden administration released a final rule implementing a ban on access to asylum for people who travel to the United States through Mexico in order to seek protection. National Immigrant Justice Center Executive Director Mary Meg McCarthy responded with the following statement: “With this…
- Today, 233 organizations sent an open statement to President Biden demanding the administration make good on its commitments to never detain families, to end privatized immigration detention, and ensure that people seeking safety can pursue their cases while living in communities in the United…
- Chicago, IL (May 3, 2023) – The Biden administration and the Mexican government announced Tuesday that they have reached a deal for Mexico to accept Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan asylum seekers forcibly returned by the U.S. government after the Title 42 mass-expulsion authority ends on…
- CHICAGO (April 28, 2023) – The Department of Homeland Security and Department of State provided an overview on Thursday of the Biden administration’s plans to deter migration at the U.S.-Mexico border as the Biden administration prepares for the end of Title 42 expulsions on May 11. National…