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- NIJC Policy Director Heidi Altman talks about the dangerous (yet very profitable) role of private prison corporations in immigration detention. Read the article.
- "Advocates and lawyers for immigrants facing imminent deportation are blaming officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a 'disturbing' lack of transparency in the sudden move of the Chicago area's processing point for those being forced from the country." Chicago Tribune: Immigration…
- NIJC, advocacy groups, and local officials strongly opposed each iteration of the Trump administration's discriminatory Muslim and travel ban. Read more.
- NIJC filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of immigrants, including a U.S. citizen, who were locked up in immigration jails without a chance to see a judge. Read the article.
- NIJC attorney Lisa Koop talks about how immigration policies impact communities in Indiana. Watch the segment
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is in the process of transferring transgender immigrants from Santa Ana Jail to a facility in New Mexico. NIJC and other advocates are calling for their release. NIJC's Tania Linares Garcia represents a detained transgender asylum seeker and talks to the…
- "En su afán por combatir la inmigración ilegal, la Administración Trump ha ordenado expandir los centros de detención en EEUU, pero este lunes más de 270 organizaciones cívicas instaron al Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) a que busque alternativas eficaces y menos costosas a un sistema que…
- The Trump administration's first budget plan doesn't include funding for a new border wall or new border patrol agents, but it does significantly increase wasteful spending on immigration detention and enforcement. Importantly, the arbitrary immigration detention bed quota was removed from the…
- NIJC and Heartland Alliance are hiring teens for the summer through Chicago's One Summer Chicago program to work with ESL students, plan events, and give Know Your Rights presentations in the community. Read more.
- NIJC joined the chorus of local residents and community groups opposing a proposed immigration jail in Winnebago County, Illinois and sent a letter to local officials urging them to reject the jail. On May 24, 2017, Sheriff Caruana announced the county would abandon the plans for the immigration…