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- Camilo is seeking safety in the U.S. after fleeing gang threats and corrupt police. After enduring months of brutal homophobic harassment and abuse in immigration detention, Camilo learned that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) mistakenly believes he is a gang member. ICE justifies…
- Authors from NIJC's policy team and FWD.us discuss their recently released report, "Pushing Back Protection: How Offshoring and Externalization Imperil the Right to Asylum." The report dives into dangerous policies of asylum offshoring and externalization led by the U.S., European nations, and…
- Haiti has been in turmoil for many years. This summer’s assassination of the Haitian president, devastating storms, and earthquake have further destabilized this nation, still reeling from political insecurity, a prior earthquake, and other tragedies of the past decade. As a result, Haitians…
- The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is currently assessing its options on how to best respond to the protection crisis in Afghanistan, how to support Afghan families and children as they arrive in the United States, and how individuals and organizations can help. We remain extremely…
- Hundreds of people around the country are coming together virtually and in person for the 3rd Annual NIJC 5K Run/Walk/Roll for Immigrant Justice. After an entirely virtual event in 2020, we combined the best of both worlds this year -- our in person 5K in Goshen, Indiana on Saturday, August 28 (see…
- A federal District Court in Nevada has issued a landmark decision finding that the law used to criminally prosecute people for entering the country without permission after having been previously deported was passed with racial malice and is applied in a discriminatory manner. U.S. District Judge…
- Earlier this week, Pulaski County in Illinois gave notice that it will no longer detain people in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in the Pulaski County Jail. Fifty-five community organizations, social services, and legal service providers are demanding that the Biden…
- On the campaign trail, now President Biden made many promises to address harmful policies implemented by the Trump administration and to create an immigration system that respects human rights. With political tensions high, advocates persistently push the administration to realize this vision. In…
- On July 14, the Farmville Town Council in Virginia held an open public hearing, and heard testimony from people currently detained in the privately operated U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center located in the town. NIJC’s Senior Policy Analyst Jesse Franzblau has been…
- During this Policy Corner presentation, policy experts from the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) talk about the latest state-level laws and efforts to end detention, and give an update on the immigrant detention landscape at the federal level.