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- Today, in another legal blow to U.S. Immigration and Custom’s Enforcement’s (ICE) use of immigration detainers, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided that police or judicial authorities’ practice of holding people pursuant to federal immigration detainers violates Massachusetts law. This…
NIJC Welcomes the DREAM Act and Calls on Congress to Uphold the Rights of All Immigrants in the U.S.
Trump Administration Must Maintain DACA Until Congress Passes a Permanent Legislative Solution for Immigrant Youth Statement by Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) welcomes the…- Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, executive director, Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center The Hawaii court’s decision stands as yet another affirmation of the executive branch's overreach in its efforts to ban refugees and Muslim travelers from the United States. The ruling—which…
- Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, executive director, Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center According to media reports, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has confirmed it will begin arresting the undocumented parents, guardians, and sponsors of unaccompanied immigrant…
- Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center Today’s Supreme Court decision on President Trump’s travel and refugee executive orders will have disastrous consequences for travelers from Muslim-majority countries and refugees worldwide.…
- The U.S. Supreme Court this week found that the Immigration and Naturalization Act’s provisions on citizenship discriminated on the basis of gender, by allowing unmarried U.S. citizen mothers to convey citizenship to their children more easily than other U.S. citizens. Unfortunately, the Court held…
- A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court today rejected the government’s draconian view of the aggravated felony definition in the context of statutory rape offenses. The government has argued for over a decade that statutory rape offenses are aggravated felonies, even misdemeanor offenses involving high…
- The Illinois House voted 62-49, with 7 abstentions, to forbid local law enforcement from complying with unconstitutional detention requests from the federal immigration agency. If signed into law, the TRUST Act (SB-31) will be the strongest state-level legal protection in the nation creating a…
- Following Congress’s Vote to Fund Massive Increase in Deportation Apparatus, Letter Calls for Less Detention, More Accountability WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the wake of Congress’s vote to approve a budget significantly expanding funding for the Trump administration’s federal deportation apparatus, 271…
- As public support grows, Senate victory hoped to carry over into House of Representatives In an important victory for a diverse coalition of communities, the Illinois Senate today passed the TRUST Act with a vote of 31 to 21. As Illinois and other governments across the country seek to protect…