- The City of Chicago launched the Legal Protection Fund in January 2017 to help Chicago’s immigrant residents and their families defend against the expected onslaught of immigration enforcement actions by the Trump administration. The Fund, part of the City of Chicago’s One Chicago campaign…
- On October 8, 2017, the Trump administration released its "Immigration Principles and Policies." View the National Immigrant Justice Center's annotations of the document in highlighted italics below. White House Immigration Principles- Annotated by NIJC 2017 10 09 FINAL by National Immigrant…
- Immigration detention is growing at an unprecedented rate despite more humane, cost-effective alternatives that ensure due process. ICE jails families and others seeking protection at our southern borders as well as those caught up in the Trump administration’s expanded immigration raids.…
- (June 2017) - The Trump administration has announced a series of new policies that, if fully implemented, would criminalize and traumatize vulnerable migrant children and eliminate meaningful adherence to child welfare norms. This brief outlines the ways in which these policy proposals will…
- The Department of Justice has recently announced a series of policy changes aimed at expediting the removal of immigrants, with few if any attendant due process protections. These policies include the announcement of new case processing priorities; detailing of immigration judges to remote detained…
- On January 25, 2017, President Trump issued two executive orders that dangerously undermine the few protections already in place in our nation's immigration system. The order below puts forth the president's proposal to build a massive wall on the border in addition to a dangerous array of policies…
- On January 25, 2017, President Trump issued two executive orders that dangerously undermine the few protections already in place in our nation's immigration system. The order below outlines massive changes to the interior enforcement of the immigration laws, placing unconstitutional restraints on…
- (January 2017) - Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)'s use of detainers is increasingly in the spotlight as states and localities that restrict their cooperation with federal immigration enforcement efforts come under fire. This joint policy brief by the American Immigration Lawyers…
- NIJC and the Detention Watch Network have produced two toolkits to help advocates and communities hold U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement accountable for the humane treatment of immigrants in detention: ICE Death Watch: An Advocacy & Organizing Toolkit provides community…
- (October 2016) - The U.S. government fails to enforce basic standards of care at its privately and publicly contracted detention facilities, according to the National Immigrant Justice Center’s review of immigration detention facility inspections from 2013-2016 which were recently publicly…