(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 organizers…
- (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…
- An Advocacy Best Practices Manual for Legal Service Providers Download the Justice for Immigrant Children manual as a PDF
- (February 2016) - Egregious violations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) medical care standards played a prominent role in eight in-custody deaths from 2010 to 2012. Fatal Neglect: How ICE Ignores Deaths in Detention, a report jointly produced by the American Civil Liberties Union,…
- For background on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention inspection system, read the full October 2015 report by the National Immigrant Justice Center and Detention Watch Network: Lives in Peril: How Ineffective Inspections Make ICE Complicit in Detention Center Abuse. Facility…