Today, the House Committee on Homeland Security will markup the Border Reinforcement Act of 2023, a bill filled with extreme anti-immigrant rhetoric and proposals. The bill fails to put forward any reasonable solutions or provide any logical plan for efficient management along the U.S. southern…

The Biden administration proposed a new rule that would dramatically restrict access to asylum for people arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. The rule — whose brief 30-day public comment window closed on March 27 — would offer access to asylum only to people who were granted prior…

The Biden administration launched a suite of new border enforcement measures at the start of this year, severely restricting access to asylum and harming refugees seeking to enter the United States at the southern border. The measures included an expansion of the Title 42 expulsion policy and…

The Biden administration has proposed a new rule that dramatically limits access to asylum for people arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border and violates U.S. and international law. The rule — published with only a 30-day window for the public to provide comments — restricts asylum access only to…

The Biden administration recently proposed a new rule that will drastically limit access to asylum for people arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, and yet, is only allowing the public a mere 30 days to provide comments. In response, 172 national, state, and local organizations wrote to the Biden…

NIJC and the ACLU alongside five other national immigration organizations sent a letter today to DHS Secretary Mayorkas expressing serious concern that over two years into the Biden administration, DHS has failed to take meaningful steps to roll back the 287(g) program. The program enables local…

The House Oversight & Accountability Committee's first hearing of the 118th Congress is expected to be a platform for some anti-immigrant members to advance white nationalist ideas. NIJC submitted written testimony calling on committee members to reject hateful rhetoric that furthers…

The Biden administration is reportedly preparing to launch a program that would subject people who seek asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border to truncated fear screenings while locked up in Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detention centers. Under the previous administration, over 5,000 asylum…

The U.S. government and governments around the world are grappling with an increase in the number of people forcibly displaced from their homes by political and social oppression. Despite campaign commitments to restore humanity to immigration policy, the Biden administration has largely continued…

Frequently Asked Questions On January 5, the Biden administration announced a suite of policies that will severely restrict access to asylum and harm refugees seeking to enter the United States at the southern border. This FAQ addresses each new policy and its implications on the right to seek…