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- Why are there so many LGBT Asylum Seekers? Two-spirit native North Americans. The third gender Fa’afafine from Samoan cultures. Voudou spirits that present as both male and female. When we look at past and current cultural traditions from around the world, there are countless examples of…
- Aleksei Borovikov has talked to dozens of LGBTQ+ individuals from post-Soviet bloc countries. A friend who must hide his partner of nearly a decade in the bathroom of their studio apartment whenever video calling his family back in his hometown in Siberia. A Russian ballet dancer who toured with…
- For 10 months, unaccompanied Afghan children in the United States have been longing for their families left in Afghanistan, with significant impact on their mental health and sense of stability. Some children have been in U.S. federal custody since they fled their homes during the U.S. withdrawal…
- Each year at NIJC’s annual Human Rights Awards, we recognize attorneys who have demonstrated extraordinary commitment to ensuring access to justice for immigrants by devoting substantial time to NIJC pro bono work, serving a significant number of NIJC clients, and/or representing clients with…
- In 2021, the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) jointly proposed a new regulation that prioritized speed over fairness for processing asylum seekers’ claims. The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) filed a comment…
- Right now is a critical moment for all of us to act to defend our country’s asylum system. In this webinar, experts and pro bono attorneys from the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) review the state of asylum from three perspectives: at the border, in the law, and in the courts. We discuss…
- New NIJC litigation challenges a sham accountability process, misuse of funds, and egregiously neglectful conditions The United States immigration detention system is notorious for inhumane conditions, profiteering, and impunity for abuses. A new lawsuit filed this week by the National Immigrant…
- On April 1, 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) announced that it would end the use of Title 42 starting May 23, 2022. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a fact sheet the day before, clarifying that the agency was more than prepared for any projected…
- It was just supposed to be a routine traffic stop, but Senia still hadn’t been given a ticket. Instead, the police officer who pulled her over had discovered she was undocumented, and had decided to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to pick her up. Senia, who had been out doing…
- In its 2021 spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security, Congress required Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to report on the state of legal access in ICE detention facilities. Last month ICE submitted its report, claiming generally that “noncitizen access to legal representatives…