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- On May 29 NIJC filed a class action lawsuit against ICE for arresting immigrants unlawfully during targeted raids in Chicago based on racial profiling. Local media spoke with NIJC's lawyers about the lawsuit and how community members can help families and victims who have been arrested by…
- The Department of Justice will no longer allow immigration judges to clear low-priority cases from their overburdened dockets by closing them. NIJC's Chuck Roth commented on the harmful effects of this decision. Read the full story.
- According to data obtained by NIJC, for-profit prison corporations are pushing to open more immigration jails in Minnesota, despite continued community push back. Read the full story.
- Comedian Samantha Bee dedicated an entire segment of her show explaining why Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is unnecessary and gave a compelling argument on closing down the agency, citing NIJC's report on ICE's alarming data. Read the full story.
- The Trump administration is seeking to roll back protections from women fleeing domestic violence. United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions is currently reviewing cases in order to justify removing domestic violence as an asylum claim. The article features a domestic violence survivor who won…
- After failing in its attempts to build an immigration jail in Gary Indiana, GEO now hopes to build an immigrant prison in Newton County, 66 miles from Chicago. NIJC obtained the information on the location of the new site through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request…
- The Kalamazoo Gazette did an investigation into a proposed ICE immigration jail in Michigan. According to reports obtained from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Gazette, Calhoun County has submitted plans for a temporary 250-bed facility to later be replaced by a…
- According to data obtained by NIJC via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, local governments want to partner with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and private corporations to build new immigration jails in Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois and Indiana. They continue to put forward…
- Mothers protested with their children by walking out of a Congressional hearing as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristjen Nielsen testified about the agency's cruel policy of separating parents from their children as they cross the U.S. border. NIJC's Heidi…
- The Trump administration is trying to change the way families are treated at the border, separating children from their parents and placing them in different detention centers and forcing them both to go through a different process. The Washington Post quoted NIJC's Diane Eikenberry about…