Press Releases

Newly released government records reveal that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) monitored protest preparations across the United States and internationally in June 2018, as communities organized to oppose the Trump administration’s separation of children and parents at the southern border.…

24-year-old Asylum Seeker Nicole Garcia Aguilar Was Re-Arrested When She Went to Texas ICE Office to Retrieve Documentation after Previous Year-Long Detention EL PASO, TEXAS — One week after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released Nicole Garcia Aguilar, a transgender asylum seeker…

As the Trump administration seeks to indefinitely detain asylum seekers and continues its rapid expansion of its immigration prison system, a new report from the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) calls on the U.S. government to end the use of immigration detention and adopt community-based…

AG’s Ruling in Matter of M-S- Further Consolidates the President’s Power over Migrants’ Fates in the United States WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General William Barr’s decision to deny bond and indefinitely detain asylum seekers who enter the United States outside ports of entry betrays American…

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling in Nielsen v. Preap, rejected an interpretation of federal law adopted by some lower courts and re-expanded the reach of “mandatory detention.” Immigrants subject to mandatory detention are jailed for the duration of their immigration court proceedings,…

The Defund Hate Coalition issued the following statement in response to President Trump declaring a national emergency to funnel billions more tax dollars to build more wall on the southern U.S. border: “Today, Trump declared a fraudulent national emergency for his border wall funding, confirming…

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) urges Congress to oppose the proposed funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which is up for a vote this week. With this bill, Congress is poised to relinquish its constitutional “power of the purse” to Immigration and Customs…

WASHINGTON, DC — Last night, details of an agreement by the conference committee emerged that show potential increases to the deportation forces of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), including the building of 55 miles of border wall and a massive…

Six families that endured lasting emotional and physical suffering seek compensation for the federal government’s intentional infliction of trauma  WASHINGTON, D.C.—Six asylum-seeking mothers and their children who were torn apart under the Trump administration’s family separation policy…

In a speech dominated by anti-immigrant rhetoric, President Trump announced today he would sign a bill to temporarily re-open the federal government and end the longest shutdown in U.S. history. Under the bill, the government will reopen until February 15 while negotiations over immigration…