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The National Immigrant Justice Center vehemently opposes new legislation introduced by Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), S. 3478, which would require the automatic and indefinite jailing of all asylum-seeking families arriving at the U.S. southern border, permit family separation in a wide variety of…

An asylum seeker who remains separated from her four-year-old son and detained in a federal immigration prison nearly six months after immigration officers separated them at the southern border will bring legal action today to demand they be allowed to reunite. The Salvadoran mother, referred to…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In its ongoing campaign to target immigrant families and fill the beds and coffers of the U.S. prison system, today the Trump administration issued regulations seeking to terminate a decades-old legal settlement that was created to protect the basic rights of immigrant children in…

One-hundred and seventy five immigrant and civil rights organizations sent a letter today to congressional appropriators urging them to reject the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) latest request for new funding to further expand the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention system…

Washington, D.C. – The U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia granted class certification to unaccompanied immigrant youth whom U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) transferred from federal children’s shelters into adult jails when they turned 18 without considering alternatives…

With the final deadline only hours away for the Trump administration to reunite 2,500 children with the parents who were taken from them at the border, hundreds of children remain stranded alone in the United States. At least 463 parents have been deported without their children, under traumatic…

The coalition, made up of immigrant, civil rights, faith, LGBTQ, legal services and other organizations demand Congress reduce funding for detentions, deportations and the border wall. WASHINGTON, DC -- Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee voted on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS…

The House Appropriations Committee this week is scheduled to mark up and vote on a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) for fiscal year 2019, even as thousands of parents whose children were taken by…

Washington D.C. - Today, leaders of several immigrant and human rights organizations were invited for the first time under the Trump administration to meet with Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen. In the midst of an ongoing crisis, where the administration has ripped more than 4,000…

CHICAGO – The National Immigrant Justice Center condemns the Trump administration’s failure to re-designate Yemen for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), despite its decision to extend TPS for the approximately 1,200 Yemenis who currently have the protection. This failure to re-designate forces…