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- Earlier this year, Gretta sat down to write a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, urging them to reform the immigration system to make it more welcoming and just for people like her. Her main request for the president? To end detention. Her letter came from a place of…
- McHenry and Kankakee Counties in Illinois openly admit to profiting off the detention of immigrants in a recent lawsuit challenging the Illinois Way Forward Act. The legislation — signed this year — forces these counties to terminate their contracts with ICE to detain immigrants in county…
- Since entering office, the Biden administration has nearly doubled the number of people locked in U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, extended existing contracts with private prison companies in some communities that have explicitly rejected ICE detention, started a contract…
- This summer, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of Justice’s Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) published a joint proposed rule regarding asylum processing; the agencies state their intended goal in issuing the…
- Teddy Birhanu lived in the United States as a lawful permanent resident for more than decade before the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deported him to his native Ethiopia because of his mental health. Now back in Ethiopia, Teddy is forced to live inside a church, where he faces prolonged…
- 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…