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- 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…
- FOIA litigation sheds light on guidance behind migration-related prosecutions Newly disclosed records obtained by NIJC through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation reveal that the Biden administration is resorting to harmful and widely discredited immigration enforcement programs that are…
- Immigrant families are still separated every day, and were long before the prior administration. During this Policy Corner, NIJC's policy experts discuss current U.S. immigration policies that separate and harm families, and how you can help end them.
- Per media reports, the White House is considering requiring migrants 5 and older to receive COVID vaccines as a condition to cross the border for court hearings. This is likely to impact individuals placed in Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) or exempted from Title 42 expulsions. This follows a…
- Three years ago, the Trump administration began the Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as MPP or “Remain in Mexico.” Through this cruel program, U.S. government officials force people seeking refuge at the border to wait in dangerous conditions in Mexico while their case proceeds in court in…
- Right now, the Biden administration is asking the public to weigh in on ways the U.S. government can minimize the separation of migrant families. The request was prompted by the ongoing work of a task force set up to address family separations that made headlines under the Trump administration’s…
- More than 60 community organizations, social service agencies, and legal service providers in Illinois sent a letter to the Biden administration today calling for the release of everyone still in immigration detention in Illinois county jails. The Illinois Way Forward Act, signed into law in August…
- This past year presented many hardships, as we continued to brave a global health crisis, fight for racial justice, and witness people seeking safety being turned away at our borders. But there is no doubt that through it all, we saw communities come together to speak out and stand with their…
- A new U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) proposal would significantly expand the collection of information from non-citizens in advance of their arrival to the U.S.-Mexico border. CBP is seeking to extend and amend a data collection program at the land border that was established on an…
- As U.S. borders reopen for vaccinated tourists, Black, Brown, and Indigenous asylum seekers remain stuck in danger, due to a long history of racist policies designed to exclude migrants and asylum seekers of color. The Biden administration continues to shut out asylum seekers (even when vaccinated…