NIJC Attorney Lisa Koop and Sandy at Women's MarchAs Americans respond to the president’s State of the Union address, I reflect on his first year in office. The president’s remarks were the same distorted vitriol we have been hearing since January 2017, when this administration formally announced…
- Sandy Rivera Photo credit: Emma KnutsonOn Saturday, January 20, nearly 4,000 people gathered in downtown Indianapolis for the second annual Women’s March, among the over 1 million people nationwide who marched that day to defend American values of fairness and equality. In the face of adversity…
- NIJC’s Analysis of the White House’s “Framework on Immigration Reform” The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) joins the chorus of calls for Congress to reject the White House’s disingenuous framework for immigration legislation that harms our communities rather than protecting them. Congress…
- Manny And His Partner During A Presentation At SchoolManny’s* younger brother is worried about his future. An architecture student in his final semester of college, Manny was recently approved for his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) renewal; however, he is uncertain of what will…
- Margaret and her sonMargaret* hopes to someday become a university math professor. She solves linear equations for fun and works as a math tutor. She was among the estimated 154,000 Dreamers who were eligible to renew their protection under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) before the…
- Maria Elena Anaya calls herself a Dreamer. Her parents brought her to the United States in 1990 when she was five years old. In 2015, she became one of nearly 800,000 people in the Unites States to be granted work authorization and temporary protection from deportation under the Deferred Action…
- NIJC Director of Policy Heidi Altman and Associate Director of Litigation Mark Fleming discuss the current immigration landscape in D.C. and in the courts -- including the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the status of sanctuary cities, and the impact of the…
- Today, U.S. Representatives Pramila Jayapal and Adam Smith (along with 39 co-sponsors) took a significant step towards overhauling the United States' abusive immigration detention system by introducing the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act. The Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act will…
- Q&A with Jenner & Block Associate and NIJC Pro Bono Attorney Daniel Epstein Daniel Epstein is an associate in the litigation practice at the law firm of Jenner & Block. He maintains a thriving pro bono practice and recently represented an Eritrean asylum seeker detained in the Calhoun…
- From the earliest months of the Trump administration, immigrant communities and advocates sounded alarm bells about new Department of Justice (DOJ) policies intended to expedite deportations at the expense of due process. One of the most confounding of these policies is the “detailing” of…