- The National Immigrant Justice Center and 11 human rights and government accountability organizations called on Congress to reject the Department of Homeland Security’s anticipated requests to transfer money from the U.S. Coast Guard or other DHS budgets to fund the construction of immigration…
- The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is deeply disappointed in today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the Trump administration's Muslim ban. NIJC Litigation Director Chuck Roth offered the following reaction and analysis: “It is a shameful day to be an American. The majority of the U…
- CHICAGO – The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling today in Pereira v. Sessions rejects Department of Justice efforts to use procedural shortcuts to eliminate protections for people who have lived for decades in the United States. “Cancellation of removal” is a form of relief available to Mr. Pereira…
- 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…