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- 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…
- The National Immigrant Justice Comment recently filed a comment in response to a proposed rule by the Department of Justice’s Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR). This proposed rule follows years of litigation by NIJC and partner organizations following a Trump-era rule that sought to…
- As a senior attorney on NIJC's Asylum Project, I lead our recent arrivals initiative responding to the buses that have come directly from Texas over the past year and the ever growing and evolving needs of our immigrant community here in Chicago and specifically our new neighbors here. This…
- This week during National Pro Bono Week, we celebrate the more than 2,000 volunteer attorneys, legal staff, and language professionals who tirelessly defend immigrants in partnership with the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC). We are so grateful for all of our pro bonos because our work and…
- Last week I had the opportunity to travel with representatives from the City of Chicago and the State of Illinois to the Texas-Mexico border. I was honored to be asked to accompany this delegation as the only representative of Chicago’s legal services and non-profit organizations. The Texas border…
- As the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) provides legal services to immigrants from around the world, many of whom do not speak English, we depend on the vital skills of volunteer translators and interpreters to ensure people can communicate their stories throughout their cases. To close out…