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- NIJC's Statement for the Record for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Hearing on Eliminating the Abuse of Solitary Confinement Overview: For over three decades, the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) has dedicated itself to ensuring human rights protections and…
- At the young age of 11, Cesar realized that a life in Honduras wasn’t going to be sustainable for him. He was living with his aunts after being abandoned by his biological father. Cesar’s only option at a better life was to make the journey to the United States to reunite with his mom after being…
- For too long, extremist lawmakers and commentators have shaped the immigration debate through misinformation and rhetoric that demonizes people seeking safety and a better life. The result is a punitive, enforcement-oriented approach to immigration policy that has caused great harm and worsened…
- On February 14, 2024, the Farmville Town Council in Virginia held a public hearing and again heard testimony from people expressing opposition to the privately operated U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center located in the town. The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC)…
- Over the weekend, the public finally saw the text of a proposed federal funding bill that senators and White House officials have been negotiating for weeks behind closed doors. As expected, the proposed legislation was designed to implement extreme anti-asylum and detention policies—yet still…
- NIJC has a new Chicago address and email domain! The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is thrilled to announce some big changes. As of January 29, 2024: NIJC’s downtown Chicago office will have a new home! Our new address is: 111 W. Jackson Blvd., Suite 800 Chicago,…
- In August 2019, U.S. the Trump administration carried out massive workplace raids on chicken processing plants across Central Mississippi, arresting 680 Indigenous, Latino, and immigrant poultry workers. The Mississippi workplace raids were among the largest such raids in U.S. history, and targeted…
- A legislative grab bag of hate-based anti-asylum provisions, first introduced in Congress earlier this year in a House bill known as H.R. 2, has since made its way into negotiations over an unrelated supplemental funding package for foreign military aid. According to media reports, the White House…
- In October 2023, the Biden administration released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to adopt regulations relating to the care of unaccompanied children in the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement’s (ORR) custody. When finalized, the regulation will clarify and…
- In the face of multiple global humanitarian challenges, people face life and death situations and make the courageous choice to leave their homes to seek safety and new lives for themselves and their loved ones. People who arrive at our border and those who have lived in our communities for decades…