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- This past year had a lot of unexpected challenges, and we wanted to say a big thank you to NIJC's amazing donors for your steadfast support of immigrants and asylum seekers. Colleen Kilbride, a senior attorney at NIJC who represents people and families seeking asylum, shares how your…
- Biden Administration Must Protect, not Punish, Survivors Last month, a group of people stopped for water near El Paso, Texas. They were migrating to the United States to reunite with family and seek protection. Two white men spotted the group and began shooting at them, killing one man and…
- Frequently Asked Questions In October, the Biden administration announced a narrow program to facilitate U.S. entry of Venezuelans in need of protection. Concurrently, the administration and the Mexican government reached an agreement for Mexico to receive expelled Venezuelans. Importantly, this…
- It’s Pro Bono Week! In the legal services community, this is the week every year when we pause to celebrate and thank the legions of attorneys, paralegals, and other volunteers who help us ensure members of our communities have access to justice. At the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC),…
- Today, NIJC and partner organizations delivered a letter to the Biden administration outlining the top immigration priorities that must be included in the country’s budget for Fiscal Year 2024. Immigrants bring vibrancy and resilience to the United States. Yet, for decades, the United States has…
- Last week, I traveled to Laredo, Texas, to represent a client, a Central American woman seeking asylum under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP, or “Remain in Mexico” program), for her final asylum hearing. The trip was significant both because it meant my client would be one of the very few…
- “Title 42” refers to Section 265 of the Public Health Service Act, a statute last invoked in 1929 to bar the entrance of ships during a meningitis outbreak. In 2020, the Trump administration retooled this public health statute to permit the mass expulsion of virtually all non-citizen/residents…
- The Biden administration is ramping up the use of criminal prosecutions to punish migrants arriving at the U.S. border, despite decades of evidence showing these prosecutions cause widespread harm and are ineffective toward the government’s stated goal of deterring future migration. Largely unused…
- Today, NIJC joined more than 200 civil society organizations in a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives leadership, urging members of Congress to ensure that a legislative provision that would indefinitely continue mass expulsions at the southern border not receive a vote on the House floor…
- After fleeing violence in Honduras and surviving detention in the U.S., Gemina is together again with her daughters and has obtained legal status. Robert achieved citizenship and added stability for his family. Sylvester fled persecution in Nigeria because of his sexual orientation and has found…