- The number of immigrants detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has reached unprecedented levels in recent months. NIJC’s Detention Project staff, who provide legal rights information and representation to immigrants and asylum seekers detained at county jails in Illinois,…
- The number of immigrants detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has reached unprecedented levels in recent months. NIJC’s Detention Project staff, who provide legal rights information and representation to immigrants and asylum seekers detained at county jails in Illinois,…
- On Thursday, September 26, the House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing about expansion of the abusive and already sprawling immigration detention system. Among those testifying are individuals who have been locked in immigration jails, former government officials who played a role in the…
- Lizzy Westrope was at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office, waiting nervously next to her very first asylum-seeking client. They had come in for his interview with an asylum officer a few weeks before, and now they were sitting in the same building, waiting to hear whether…
- For nearly two years, NIJC has been tracking the irreversible harms caused by a 2018 memorandum of agreement between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). The agreement on its face is only an information-sharing…
- Fernando has mentally prepared to never see his children again twice in his life. The first was during a home-invasion-turned-kidnapping he didn’t expect to survive, when he prayed that his children would remain in the basement, watching a movie, until the robbers left. The next was when he was…
- We are excited to announce that we've launched a brand new “For Attorneys” section on the National Immigrant Justice Center's (NIJC) website! Watch this video showing off the great new features of the "For Attorneys" website: The totally revamped section features: ✔️ Filtered search tool for…
- As the Trump administration reaches the end of its third fiscal year, it continues to make alarming changes to immigration and border policy that almost daily are chipping away at the norms of good governance. More than 200 non-governmental organizations sent a letter to Congress today calling on…
- A newly-released document has exposed the Trump administration’s latest move to circumvent Congress by taking hundreds of millions of dollars from disaster relief and other domestic programs to fund more abusive anti-immigrant policies. Before hurricane season, the administration is risking public…
- United States law enshrines the protections of the international Refugee Convention, drafted in the wake of the horrors of World War II. The law provides that any person “physically present in the United States or who arrives in the United States … irrespective of such alien’s status, may apply for…