- Statement by National Immigrant Justice Center Executive Director Mary Meg McCarthy The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) condemns the Trump administration’s human rights abuses toward parents and children who have fled to the United States to seek asylum. Under the president's new…
- Washington, DC – Poor medical treatment contributed to more than half the deaths reported by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during a 16-month period, Human Rights Watch, the American Civil Liberties Union, Detention Watch Network, and The National Immigrant Justice Center said in…
- Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision today in Matter of A-B-, 27 I&N Dec. 315 (A.G. 2018), is a malicious attempt by the Trump administration to overrule long-standing precedent regarding the manner in which private violence can give rise to a viable asylum claim. The National Immigrant…
- Two Chicago residents who were swept up during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation last week are suing the agency for relying on warrantless traffic stops and racial profiling, among other tactics, to arrest and detain more than 100 people across the Chicagoland area over a…
- Español CHICAGO — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have arrested dozens of community members in Chicago and nearby suburbs in immigration enforcement operations since the weekend. The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) believes that enforcement and surveillance…
- Joint statement by the American Immigration Council, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Detention Watch Network, Human Rights Watch, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, National Immigrant Justice Center, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, Open the Government, Project On…
- CHICAGO- Attorney General Jeff Sessions today reversed decades of U.S. immigration court precedent by eliminating “administrative closure,” a tool the federal government and immigration attorneys frequently use to relieve overloaded immigration court dockets by removing cases for individuals…
- Trump Administration Continues to Grow List of People to be Exiled to Danger Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center CHICAGO (May 4, 2018) – The National Immigrant Justice Center condemns the Trump administration’s announcement that it will terminate…
- CHICAGO – The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) filed a friend-of-the-court brief today with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, challenging his recent efforts to unilaterally reevaluate a settled immigration court case, which could have implications for a broad range of asylum seekers…
- Reversal Comes Two Weeks After Announcement that Programs Would be Terminated Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, executive director, National Immigrant Justice Center WASHINGTON, D.C. — Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Congress that the Department of Justice will continue the Legal Orientation…