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- Update: On February 21, 2025, the Trump administration rescinded, without explanation, the stop-work order that had abruptly cut funding for lawyers working with unaccompanied immigrant children. National Immigrant Justice Center Executive Director Mary Meg McCarthy responded with the…
- National Immigrant Justice Center and Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights Respond to Trump’s Attacks on Sanctuary Laws As immigrant rights organizations who together have served our Illinois and Chicago communities for more than four decades, the National Immigrant Justice Center…
- Trump’s proclamation is unlawful and unprecedented Immigrants’ rights advocates sued the Trump administration today over the president’s recent proclamation aimed at completely shutting down asylum at the border, a move that puts thousands of lives at risk. The American Civil Liberties Union,…
- Update: On January 24, 2025, in response to a federal court order, the Trump administration rescinded a stop-work order that had abruptly paused NIJC's Chicago Immigration Court Helpdesk. Below is the original statement announcing a lawsuit by NIJC and other legal services providers regarding the…
- In one of the Trump administration’s first actions of its anti-immigrant agenda, the National Immigrant Justice Center received a stop-work order on January 23 ending federal funding for our Immigration Court Helpdesk at the Chicago Immigration Court. Since 2016, this Department of Justice-funded…
- Bill Dismantles Due Process and Upends the U.S. Justice System After failing for decades to pass legislation to create a functional U.S. immigration system that is fair and humane, yesterday Congress passed a dangerous and wide-ranging anti-immigrant bill that will upend due process across the…
- On his first day back in office, President Trump issued a series of executive orders resuming his administration’s weaponization of the U.S. government to attack immigrants and asylum seekers. National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) Executive Director Mary Meg McCarthy issued the following…
- DETROIT (January 10, 2025) – A federal district court judge in Michigan has ruled that survivors of crime who are suing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for unreasonable delays in their U visa applications have enough standing to move forward in their lawsuit. The decision comes after the…
- Today, the Biden administration announced a new final rule further curbing access to asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. The rule will insert assessments for complex barriers to asylum into the initial asylum screening process. Individuals seeking protection have virtually no access to the outside…
- Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, executive director, National Immigrant Justice Center With final election results showing that Donald Trump will return to office as president of the United States, the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) reaffirms our commitment to defending the rights of…