NIJC Calls On Members of Congress to Stand with Immigrant Communities in Opposition to Another Year of Fiscal Impunity for DHS’s Abuses
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) condemns congressional leadership’s failure to hold the Trump administration and Department of Homeland Security (DHS…
- National Immigrant Justice Center celebrates introduction of bill to ease injustice of discriminatory laws which have criminalized immigrants, separated families Washington, D.C. - The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) applauds today’s introduction of the New Way Forward Act by Reps. Jesús…
- The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is hearing opening testimony today in a nationwide class action lawsuit challenging the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) practice of transferring unaccompanied immigrant children who reach their 18th birthdays to adult ICE detention…
- "We are here today because everyone deserves a second chance.” Alejandra Cano, accompanied by NIJC attorney Kate Ramos, speaks during a press conference prior to her first CBP check-in on November 14, 2019. CHICAGO (November 14, 2019) – Alejandra Cano, a single mother of two who came to the…
- The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) strongly opposes the confirmation of Chad Wolf, who helped shape the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” family separation policy and then lied to Congress about it, as undersecretary of the Department of Homeland Security. The U.S. Senate is…
- A coalition of community groups, led by PASO-West Suburban Action Project, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, the National Immigrant Justice Center, the ACLU of Illinois, and Access Living have joined together in launching an effort to ensure uniform enforcement of the…
- Defund Hate Coalition Encourages Strong Oversight of ICE Spending During Continuing Resolution The Defund Hate Coalition applauds appropriations committee leadership for enforcing Congress’s power of the purse and rejecting future attempts to misuse federal appropriations laws to expand Trump’s…
- ICE Barred From Issuing Arrest Requests Based on Error-Ridden Databases In a landmark ruling addressing the legality of ICE’s signature deportation program, Secure Communities, a federal judge issued a permanent injunction blocking the agency from issuing arrest requests based solely on error-…
- As House Judiciary Members Hear Testimony on Expansion of ICE Detention, Now is the Time for Congress to Cut Funding for Abusive System At a House Judiciary Committee hearing scheduled for September 26, members of Congress will hear testimony from immigrants who have been detained in the abusive U…
- Five families enduring lasting emotional and physical suffering seek accountability for the federal government’s intentional infliction of trauma Five asylum-seeking mothers and their children who were torn apart under the Trump administration’s family separation policy have filed a lawsuit…