In a year defined by words like “challenging” and “difficult,” let’s not forget that “victory” and “extraordinary” are a crucial part of 2020’s vocabulary. Faced with unprecedented challenges, legal staff and immigrant rights advocates around the country rose to the occasion to protect human rights…
- From the moment I started working at NIJC, in the spring of 2018, the Trump administration has been implementing its incessant attacks on the immigration system. Many of these attacks made the headlines; others didn’t. But it’s the little things, the things that no one sees – not our clients, not…
- A broad-based coalition of more than 100 organizations working to reform federal criminal justice laws and policies has released recommendations for the incoming Biden-Harris administration and 117th Congress that include calls to decriminalize migration. The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC…
- The U.S. immigration courts are in crisis, crippled by backlogs and operating in a state of chaos. With no right to appointed counsel in the immigration court system, the majority of individuals represent themselves before the immigration judge, opposite a federal prosecutor. Immigration laws are…
- Nearly 550 people around the world came together to participate in NIJC's Virtual 5K for Immigrant Justice week from November 8, 2020 - November 15, 2020. This is an incredible show of support to stand with immigrants in all of our communities, and together, participants raised more than $40,000 to…
- Justice for asylum seekers demands fair and unbiased procedures in immigration court. Rather than provide that basic need, immigration courts have become the Trump administration’s laboratory to determine the fastest way to deport—rather than the fairest way to process of asylum seekers’ cases.…
- The Trump administration continues to attack sanctuary cities, conducting enforcement operations in communities that have refused to allow their local police to act as federal deportation agents. Recently, the administration has spent tax dollars on billboards targeting community members who…
- On September 11, 2020, the Trump administration issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that would dramatically expand government surveillance over immigrants and U.S. citizens sponsoring immigrants for lawful status. The proposed rule will have grave consequences if it is implemented, impacting…
- The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), the agency within the Department of Justice that includes the immigration courts and Board of Immigration Appeals, issued a proposed regulation making dramatic changes to the process through which immigrants can appeal deportation decisions. The…
- The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is proud to endorse the Funding Attorneys for Indigent Removal (FAIR) Proceedings Act, S.2389 / H.R. 4155, led by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in the Senate and Representatives Zoe Lofgren and Donald McEachin in the House of Representatives. The FAIR…