- 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…
- It was October of 2010 and Angelica, a college graduate who was unable to work or continue her education because of her immigration status, had reached an impasse. As she decided whether she needed to leave the United States and her family, her world came crashing down when she found out that a…
- The detention system the U.S. government uses to lock up immigrants and refugees is intentionally difficult to understand. It involves a network of government and privately operated detention centers and jails spread across the country and four different federal agencies. An infographic showing…
- The Trump administration has weaponized provisions in federal law in the most abusive way to demonize immigrants and tear families apart. Two of the most harmful, costly, and unnecessary provisions in federal immigration law are 1325 and 1326 of Title 8 U.S.C., which make it a federal crime…
- The National Immigrant Justice Center today joined dozens of national and local civil rights organizations in a letter condemning the proposal of nine members of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee to create a pilot program to expedite the deportation of jailed asylum-…
- Salvadoran asylum seeker Alejandra Barrera, a transgender woman who has been locked up in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) jail in New Mexico for 19 months, filed a petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus in federal court today to demand her release. Ms. Barrera has been legally…
- Migrants on the U.S. southern border are enduring systemic human rights abuses. Children and adults alike are held in overcrowded processing pens, hungry and neglected. Families are torn apart. People are dying on their journey toward safety and in U.S. government custody. Abuses on…