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The National Immigrant Justice Center joins a growing chorus calling for the Biden administration to designate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Central American countries devastated in November 2020 by Hurricanes Eta and Iota. Hundreds of thousands of people in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua,…

Nearly two months after leaders of 43 prominent human and civil rights organizations delivered a letter to the White House urging the Biden administration to take immediate action to end the violent expulsions of Haitian and other Black asylum seekers at the U.S-Mexico border and to restore asylum…

National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) Executive Director Mary Meg McCarthy issued the following statement in response to President Biden’s comments today about family separation lawsuits brought by parents and children who were separated at the southern U.S. border under the Trump administration…

Washington, D.C. -- The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) welcomes the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) long overdue issuance of a new memorandum terminating the inherently inhumane and unlawful Migration Protection Protocols (MPP), otherwise known as the “Remain in Mexico”…

A coalition of local and national organizations filed a civil rights complaint today calling for the release of people detained in immigration detention and for an investigation into serious abuses committed against two men detained in the county jail in Glades County, Florida. The two men, both…

Today the Biden administration reiterated its intention to begin returning asylum seekers to Mexico through the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program as soon as mid-November. The program, also known as “Remain in Mexico,” forced more than 70,000 migrants and asylum seekers to wait in deadly…

National Immigrant Justice Center Director of Policy Heidi Altman issued the following statement in response to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s new memo to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regarding immigration enforcement guidelines: “Coming in the…

NIJC, DWN Condemn Broken Commitments to End Abusive For-Profit Incarceration The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) and Detention Watch Network (DWN) condemn the Biden administration’s move this week to expand its use of private prisons for immigrant detention and demand that the president…

A district court judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Tuesday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) broke the law by detaining unaccompanied children who turned 18 and “aged out” of Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) custody. The court ordered the agency to change its practices and…

Violent Expulsions of Haitians and Asylum Seekers Are Shaping Biden’s Legacy WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 22, 2021) — Leaders of 39 human and civil rights organizations delivered the following letter to the White House on Tuesday evening to oppose the Biden administration’s violent expulsions of…