- 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…
- CHICAGO – Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that the Department of Justice cannot legally withhold law enforcement funding from cities that have refused to enlist their local police in federal immigration enforcement. The court upheld a federal district court’s…
- Orders Government to Assess Placement in Least Restrictive Setting and Alternative Forms of Custody Washington, D.C. - The U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia has ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to reassess its custody decisions for two unaccompanied immigrant…
- CHICAGO – The U.S. Supreme Court, by a vote of 5-4, has struck down part of the “aggravated felony” definition, one of the most punishing provisions in U.S. immigration law. The Court found a provision, which triggers automatic removal for offenses that by their nature tend to be “crimes of…