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Senate Bill Threatens Asylum Seekers, Refugee Children, DACA and TPS Recipients The government shutdown is hurting families and communities and must end, but Trump’s “deal” and the bill Senator Mitch McConnell introduced this week are filled with poison pills that threaten serious harm for…

Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center The government shutdown is hurting families and communities and must end, but the proposal Trump announced today offers no new relief for immigrants or refugees and would funnel tax dollars to expand detention…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than two weeks into Trump’s shutdown of the federal government, the president continues to hold Americans hostage to his anti-immigrant agenda. Congress must continue to reject the president’s irrational demands to spend billions of taxpayer dollars to pay for his border…

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) welcomes today’s federal district court ruling in Washington, D.C., severely limiting the harm of policies put in place by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to restrict access to asylum protections for people who come to the United States fleeing…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Under intense pressure from civil society and Congress in light of an autopsy report which suggested Roxsana Hernández Rodriguez, a transgender woman, was beaten before she died in custody in May, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has published a new web page with…

Border communities and immigrant rights advocates, including the National Immigrant Justice Center, have spoken out for years about the ways Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement harm children and families who come to the U.S. seeking safety. The urgency for Congress…

A Salvadoran mother and her four-year-old son are together again, eight months after U.S. border agents separated them at the border and four months after the Trump administration erroneously deemed them “ineligible” to reunite. A federal court judge in the U.S. District Court of the District of…

Español Three U.S. human rights organizations have sent a letter to incoming Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asking the new administration to reject any proposal by the U.S. government that would require individuals seeking asylum in the United States to return to or remain in Mexico…

Illinois is set to provide critical new protections for immigrant survivors of violence after the House of Representatives passed a final vote on November 27 to override a veto of the Voices of Immigrant Communities Empowering Survivors (VOICES) Act (SB 34). With a bipartisan supermajority vote of…

The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University of Law, the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law and the National Immigrant Justice Center, along with 109 groups, sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)…