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- Trump administration criminalized migrants and used children as bait to target sponsors of minors for arrest During the height of the public outcry over children being torn from their parents at the U.S. border, the Trump administration monitored those speaking out against the policy. Newly…
- It’s time for the United States to invest in communities, not jails! The National Immigrant Justice Center's (NIJC) recent report, A Better Way, calls on the United States to end the use of immigration detention and instead invest in community-based programs that support immigrants and their…
- In Matter of M-S-, 27 I&N 509 (AG 2019), decided on April 16, 2019, U.S. Attorney General William Barr unilaterally overturned a 2005 decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (Matter of X-K-, 23 I&N Dec. 731). The Attorney General’s new decision strips immigration judges of the…
- As the Trump administration continues to threaten and implement harmful policies that undermine migrant rights and human rights protections at the southern U.S. border, the National Immigrant Justice Center has joined more than 30 human and civil rights and faith organizations to create a framework…
- The village board of Dwight, Illinois, a town of 4,000 people about 90 miles south of Chicago, will vote tonight on whether to become the site of a new 1,200-bed private immigrant prison. The National Immigrant Justice Center joins community and faith, legal, and grassroots organizations from…
- Jose and his daughter after he won his case to obtain permanent residence.Twenty-six years after moving to the United States, Jose became a lawful permanent resident—one step from U.S. citizenship. This outcome was not always certain, and his experience shows how unintentional mistakes in a…
- This week several members of Congress visited a detention center for immigrant children in Homestead, Florida. Homestead is part of a network of facilities used by the United States government to temporarily house children who arrive in the United States without a parent or guardian, seeking safety…
- With the government set to run out of funds in a few short days, immigration detention has become a central issue in Congress’s debate over how to spend taxpayer money in the U.S. immigration system. The goal of this explainer is to ground these discussions in reality amidst misinformation from…
- Cut Funding for Immigration Detention and Enforcement, Ensure Accountability Measures With the longest government shutdown in United States history over, the country turns its attention to the conference in which selected members of Congress will negotiate a final spending bill for the Department…
- Three weeks into President Trump’s shutdown, the government is unable to pay hundreds of thousands of federal workers but has been able to scrounge up the money to dramatically expand its network of immigration jails. As BuzzFeed reported today, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is…