Galyna won the diversity visa lottery and had a chance to come to the U.S. from Ukraine to begin a new life. Yanelli fled violence and everything she'd ever known in Mexico, and had to start over in a country where she felt all alone. Both found community and opportunity for themselves and their…
- The National Immigrant Justice Center's 20th Annual Human Rights Awards was truly an historic celebration of immigrants and leaders in our communities. More than 1,000 attendees and sponsors came together to raise over $1.2 million for life-changing legal services for immigrants, making this the…
- The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) gives the Rising Star Awards to recognize associate or junior-level attorneys who have demonstrated extraordinary commitment to ensuring access to justice for immigrants by devoting substantial time to NIJC pro bono work, serving a significant number of…
- Thousands of immigrants, many of them mentally ill, have been sentenced to solitary confinement in immigration detention centers across the country, according to a series of stories released today by NBC News and The Intercept. In a week already replete with reports of tragedy inside the U.S.…
- Trump administration criminalized migrants and used children as bait to target sponsors of minors for arrest During the height of the public outcry over children being torn from their parents at the U.S. border, the Trump administration monitored those speaking out against the policy. Newly…
- It’s time for the United States to invest in communities, not jails! The National Immigrant Justice Center's (NIJC) recent report, A Better Way, calls on the United States to end the use of immigration detention and instead invest in community-based programs that support immigrants and their…
- In Matter of M-S-, 27 I&N 509 (AG 2019), decided on April 16, 2019, U.S. Attorney General William Barr unilaterally overturned a 2005 decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (Matter of X-K-, 23 I&N Dec. 731). The Attorney General’s new decision strips immigration judges of the…
- As the Trump administration continues to threaten and implement harmful policies that undermine migrant rights and human rights protections at the southern U.S. border, the National Immigrant Justice Center has joined more than 30 human and civil rights and faith organizations to create a framework…
- The village board of Dwight, Illinois, a town of 4,000 people about 90 miles south of Chicago, will vote tonight on whether to become the site of a new 1,200-bed private immigrant prison. The National Immigrant Justice Center joins community and faith, legal, and grassroots organizations from…
- Jose and his daughter after he won his case to obtain permanent residence.Twenty-six years after moving to the United States, Jose became a lawful permanent resident—one step from U.S. citizenship. This outcome was not always certain, and his experience shows how unintentional mistakes in a…