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- 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…
Explainer: Biden Administration Plans for Rapid Deportation of Asylum Seekers Detained at the Border
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…
- Covering appropriations bills for the Department of Homeland Security; Commerce, Justice, Science; and Labor, Health and Human Services With this year’s spending bill, Congress had a pivotal opportunity to make significant shifts towards a humane immigration system, but instead generally left…
- As I reflect on all we accomplished this year, I’m so grateful for our supporters, legal volunteers, and the clients for whom we have the privilege of advocating. Together with all of you, the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) continues our mission to establish and defend the legal rights of…
- Felipe turned 11 years old in a shelter for unaccompanied migrant children this year, thousands of miles away from his parents. He had not arrived to the United States alone, but the U.S. government took him from his parents and sent them to a U.S. Marshals prison in Texas. Felipe was not able to…
- The laws used to criminally prosecute people for entering and reentering the United States without permission are known as Sections 1325 (“unauthorized entry”) and 1326 (“unauthorized reentry”) of Chapter 8 of the U.S. Code. They originate from a law passed in 1929 amid the height of the eugenics…
- This joint webinar by the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) and the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights discusses our organizations' recent report, Punishing Trauma: Incident Reporting and Immigrant Children in Government Custody. Co-authors Azadeh Erfani of NIJC and Jane Liu of…