- Collaboration Seeks to Expand Access to Counsel for Asylum Seekers and Other Migrants The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) launched an initiative with the Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., to provide lawyers to asylum seekers and advocate for an end to the criminalization of migration…
- WASHINGTON, D.C. - More than 200 non-governmental organizations sent a letter to Congress today calling for members to cut the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) budget for detention, enforcement, and border militarization, and to put accountability measures in place to stop the agency’s pattern…
- On September 11, 2019, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to bar virtually all asylum seekers entering the country through the southern border. National Immigrant Justice Center Executive Director Mary Meg McCarthy responds: The highest court in the land is allowing the…
- CONTACT: Mariya Parodi, media@aiusa.org Alejandra Barrera, a transgender Salvadorian activist who had been held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention since November 2017, was released late Friday, September 6, 2019, as a result of international advocacy efforts,…
- WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 21, 2019) —The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) condemns the Trump administration’s new regulation, announced today, which will allow the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to jail children indefinitely in unlicensed detention facilities and terminate a decades-…
- Defund Hate Coalition Members Call on Congress to Oppose any Transfer of Money to ICE Politico has reported that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has notified congressional appropriators of its plans to — yet again — pull massive amounts of money from certain agencies to expand U.S.…
- The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) condemns the Trump administration’s newest hurdle to immigrants seeking to obtain lawful status and maintain secure lives in the United States. The Department of Homeland Security’s proposed changes to “public charge,” released this week in the Federal…
- Washington, D.C.— The federal District Court for the District of Columbia today ruled in O.A. v. Trump that the Trump Administration cannot bar refugees from asylum for crossing between ports of entry. The suit was brought by the Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition, Human Rights First, the…
- Reiterate Immigrants’ Right to Remain Silent during ICE Encounters Illinois immigrant rights advocates are condemning the Trump administration’s expansion of “expedited removal,” which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) uses to deport people without the opportunity to appear before an…
- MILAN, NM - Salvadoran asylum seeker Alejandra Barrera, a transgender woman who has been locked up in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) jail in New Mexico for 19 months, filed a legal action in federal court today to demand her release. The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC)…