On Thursday, September 26, the House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing about expansion of the abusive and already sprawling immigration detention system. Among those testifying are individuals who have been locked in immigration jails, former government officials who played a role in the…
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- Lizzy Westrope was at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office, waiting nervously next to her very first asylum-seeking client. They had come in for his interview with an asylum officer a few weeks before, and now they were sitting in the same building, waiting to hear whether…
- For nearly two years, NIJC has been tracking the irreversible harms caused by a 2018 memorandum of agreement between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). The agreement on its face is only an information-sharing…
- Fernando has mentally prepared to never see his children again twice in his life. The first was during a home-invasion-turned-kidnapping he didn’t expect to survive, when he prayed that his children would remain in the basement, watching a movie, until the robbers left. The next was when he was…
- We are excited to announce that we've launched a brand new “For Attorneys” section on the National Immigrant Justice Center's (NIJC) website! Watch this video showing off the great new features of the "For Attorneys" website: The totally revamped section features: ✔️ Filtered search tool for…
- As the Trump administration reaches the end of its third fiscal year, it continues to make alarming changes to immigration and border policy that almost daily are chipping away at the norms of good governance. More than 200 non-governmental organizations sent a letter to Congress today calling on…
- A newly-released document has exposed the Trump administration’s latest move to circumvent Congress by taking hundreds of millions of dollars from disaster relief and other domestic programs to fund more abusive anti-immigrant policies. Before hurricane season, the administration is risking public…
- It was October of 2010 and Angelica, a college graduate who was unable to work or continue her education because of her immigration status, had reached an impasse. As she decided whether she needed to leave the United States and her family, her world came crashing down when she found out that a…
- The detention system the U.S. government uses to lock up immigrants and refugees is intentionally difficult to understand. It involves a network of government and privately operated detention centers and jails spread across the country and four different federal agencies. An infographic showing…
- The Trump administration has weaponized provisions in federal law in the most abusive way to demonize immigrants and tear families apart. Two of the most harmful, costly, and unnecessary provisions in federal immigration law are 1325 and 1326 of Title 8 U.S.C., which make it a federal crime…