- In 2021, the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) jointly proposed a new regulation that prioritized speed over fairness for processing asylum seekers’ claims. The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) filed a comment…
- New NIJC litigation challenges a sham accountability process, misuse of funds, and egregiously neglectful conditions The United States immigration detention system is notorious for inhumane conditions, profiteering, and impunity for abuses. A new lawsuit filed this week by the National Immigrant…
- On April 1, 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) announced that it would end the use of Title 42 starting May 23, 2022. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a fact sheet the day before, clarifying that the agency was more than prepared for any projected…
- It was just supposed to be a routine traffic stop, but Senia still hadn’t been given a ticket. Instead, the police officer who pulled her over had discovered she was undocumented, and had decided to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to pick her up. Senia, who had been out doing…
- In its 2021 spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security, Congress required Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to report on the state of legal access in ICE detention facilities. Last month ICE submitted its report, claiming generally that “noncitizen access to legal representatives…
- FOIA litigation sheds light on guidance behind migration-related prosecutions Newly disclosed records obtained by NIJC through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation reveal that the Biden administration is resorting to harmful and widely discredited immigration enforcement programs that are…
- Per media reports, the White House is considering requiring migrants 5 and older to receive COVID vaccines as a condition to cross the border for court hearings. This is likely to impact individuals placed in Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) or exempted from Title 42 expulsions. This follows a…
- Three years ago, the Trump administration began the Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as MPP or “Remain in Mexico.” Through this cruel program, U.S. government officials force people seeking refuge at the border to wait in dangerous conditions in Mexico while their case proceeds in court in…
- Right now, the Biden administration is asking the public to weigh in on ways the U.S. government can minimize the separation of migrant families. The request was prompted by the ongoing work of a task force set up to address family separations that made headlines under the Trump administration’s…
- More than 60 community organizations, social service agencies, and legal service providers in Illinois sent a letter to the Biden administration today calling for the release of everyone still in immigration detention in Illinois county jails. The Illinois Way Forward Act, signed into law in August…