- The coalition, made up of immigrant, civil rights, faith, LGBTQ, legal services and other organizations demand Congress reduce funding for detentions, deportations and the border wall. WASHINGTON, DC -- Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee voted on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS…
- The House Appropriations Committee this week is scheduled to mark up and vote on a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) for fiscal year 2019, even as thousands of parents whose children were taken by…
- Washington D.C. - Today, leaders of several immigrant and human rights organizations were invited for the first time under the Trump administration to meet with Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen. In the midst of an ongoing crisis, where the administration has ripped more than 4,000…
- CHICAGO – The National Immigrant Justice Center condemns the Trump administration’s failure to re-designate Yemen for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), despite its decision to extend TPS for the approximately 1,200 Yemenis who currently have the protection. This failure to re-designate forces…
- The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) and Detention Watch Network (DWN) welcome today’s report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General (OIG), holding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) accountable for its failed detention inspections system. One ICE…
- 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…