Update: Within days of the announcement of the new asylum ban , RAICES and CAIR Coalition filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Washington, D.C. challenging the rule, followed closely by a similar suit by ACLU in California. On July 24, 2019, the California judge enjoined the rule nationwide…
- En español Local Immigration Advocates Condemn Trump Administration’s Threats and Remind Communities of Steps to Take to Defend their Rights Chicago immigrant rights advocates and attorneys condemn potential Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to conduct a nationwide immigration…
With Two New Announcements, Trump Administration Continues to Escalate Attacks on Immigrant Children
With the death toll of the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant enforcement agenda rising, two alarming policy changes were exposed this week targeting the rights of unaccompanied immigrant children. First, on June 5, the administration announced it will cut critical services for unaccompanied…- Paula Hincapié and daughter Layla at the rally Two weeks after Betty Rendón and Carlos Hincapié were arrested at their Chicago home as part of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation, advocates and faith communities joined the couple’s daughter and granddaughter in a rally…
- Bill Provides Hope to Many but Needlessly Takes it from Others Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, executive director, National Immigrant Justice Center As committee markup of the Dream and Promise Act (H.R. 6) moves forward today in the U.S. House of Representatives, the National Immigrant Justice…
- The White House asked Congress today for billions more in taxpayer dollars to fund further militarization of the border and more jail beds for asylum seekers and other immigrants. The request came only months after Congress handed DHS an unprecedented $25 billion immigration and border enforcement…
- Statement from Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center President Trump’s April 29 memorandum violates our nation’s longstanding laws and international obligations. These measures will not make our country safer, but rather weaker by abandoning our most cherished…
- Newly released government records reveal that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) monitored protest preparations across the United States and internationally in June 2018, as communities organized to oppose the Trump administration’s separation of children and parents at the southern border.…
- 24-year-old Asylum Seeker Nicole Garcia Aguilar Was Re-Arrested When She Went to Texas ICE Office to Retrieve Documentation after Previous Year-Long Detention EL PASO, TEXAS — One week after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released Nicole Garcia Aguilar, a transgender asylum seeker…
- As the Trump administration seeks to indefinitely detain asylum seekers and continues its rapid expansion of its immigration prison system, a new report from the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) calls on the U.S. government to end the use of immigration detention and adopt community-based…