Press Releases

Washington, DC (July 30, 2021) The Biden administration has entrenched its use of two anti-asylum policies that have blocked asylum seekers from seeking safety, separated families, and caused immeasurable harm. The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) strongly condemns the administration’s…

Two immigrant men detained in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody at a Kentucky county jail have requested an investigation by federal civil rights authorities into abusive and unsanitary conditions they have experienced at the facility, including inadequate COVID-19 protections. In…

Version en Español abajo. NIJC Calls on Congress to Pass Broad Citizenship Bill via Reconciliation CHICAGO (July 16, 2021) - National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) Executive Director Mary Meg McCarthy issued the following statement in light of today’s ruling by a Texas district court judge…

A group of 89 organizations that advocate for the rights of immigrants, people seeking protection, and refugees are calling on the Biden administration to ensure a proposed new program intended to help migrants navigate the U.S. legal system will not be managed by the same agency charged with…

The following statement is from National Immigrant Justice Center Director of Policy Heidi Altman following the Senate confirmation hearing for Ed Gonzalez, nominee to become the next director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): “It was difficult to hear the political rhetoric of…

WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 9, 2021) -- 85 immigrant rights organizations are calling on the Biden administration to allow asylum seekers who were unlawfully expelled to Guatemala under the Trump administration’s Asylum Cooperative Agreement (ACA) program an opportunity to return to the United States…

Announcement should be Biden administration’s first step toward reviewing cases and welcoming home all unjustly deported immigrants WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 6, 2021) — The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) applauds the Biden administration’s announcement that the U.S. Department of Veterans…

Washington D.C. (June 24, 2021) -- The Biden administration announced it is expanding the scope of asylum seekers eligible to seek protection after having been harmed by the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also known as the Remain in Mexico program. This new phase contemplates reopening or…

The U.S. Attorney General issued two decisions, vacating harmful precedents from the Trump administration: Matter of A-B-, which adversely impacted asylum seekers fleeing gender- and gang-based violence, and Matter of L-E-A-, which harmed asylum seekers facing persecution because of their family.…

85 Organizations Request Meeting to Discuss Proposal to Establish a Centralized Process to Facilitate the Return of Deported Individuals  The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), We Are Home campaign, and 85 civil rights organizations and law school clinics sent a letter to Homeland…