- 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…
- This week several members of Congress visited a detention center for immigrant children in Homestead, Florida. Homestead is part of a network of facilities used by the United States government to temporarily house children who arrive in the United States without a parent or guardian, seeking safety…
- With the government set to run out of funds in a few short days, immigration detention has become a central issue in Congress’s debate over how to spend taxpayer money in the U.S. immigration system. The goal of this explainer is to ground these discussions in reality amidst misinformation from…
- Cut Funding for Immigration Detention and Enforcement, Ensure Accountability Measures With the longest government shutdown in United States history over, the country turns its attention to the conference in which selected members of Congress will negotiate a final spending bill for the Department…
- Three weeks into President Trump’s shutdown, the government is unable to pay hundreds of thousands of federal workers but has been able to scrounge up the money to dramatically expand its network of immigration jails. As BuzzFeed reported today, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is…
- NIJC and 150+ Organizations Call for Rescission of Trump's Asylum Ban On November 9, the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security published a notice in the Federal Register that has become widely known as the “Asylum Ban.” In combination with a Presidential Proclamation issued the same day,…
- Twenty years ago Fabiola trekked the treacherous desert for three hours alone with her three children: Jorge, Celia and Euridice. They left Mexico and arrived at the U.S. border with hopes for a better future. In the United States, Fabiola had three more children born as U.S. citizens. This year…