The National Immigrant Justice Center today joined dozens of national and local civil rights organizations in a letter condemning the proposal of nine members of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee to create a pilot program to expedite the deportation of jailed asylum-…
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- Salvadoran asylum seeker Alejandra Barrera, a transgender woman who has been locked up in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) jail in New Mexico for 19 months, filed a petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus in federal court today to demand her release. Ms. Barrera has been legally…
- Migrants on the U.S. southern border are enduring systemic human rights abuses. Children and adults alike are held in overcrowded processing pens, hungry and neglected. Families are torn apart. People are dying on their journey toward safety and in U.S. government custody. Abuses on…
- The heart-crushing photograph of Óscar Martínez Ramírez lying with his young daughter on the bank of the Rio Grande River has shocked the global consciousness and raised awareness of the treacherous path migrants face when trying to seek asylum at the southern border. The story behind the photo…
- Records contradict DHS Acting Secretary McAleenan’s claims on ongoing separations The Trump administration continues to tear apart immigrant families while hiding information about its actions from Congress, lawyers, and the public. Newly released documents along with testimonies made public for…
- Galyna won the diversity visa lottery and had a chance to come to the U.S. from Ukraine to begin a new life. Yanelli fled violence and everything she'd ever known in Mexico, and had to start over in a country where she felt all alone. Both found community and opportunity for themselves and their…
- The National Immigrant Justice Center's 20th Annual Human Rights Awards was truly an historic celebration of immigrants and leaders in our communities. More than 1,000 attendees and sponsors came together to raise over $1.2 million for life-changing legal services for immigrants, making this the…
- The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) gives the Rising Star Awards to recognize associate or junior-level attorneys who have demonstrated extraordinary commitment to ensuring access to justice for immigrants by devoting substantial time to NIJC pro bono work, serving a significant number of…
- Thousands of immigrants, many of them mentally ill, have been sentenced to solitary confinement in immigration detention centers across the country, according to a series of stories released today by NBC News and The Intercept. In a week already replete with reports of tragedy inside the U.S.…
- The National Immigrant Justice Center joined 76 other organizations in sending this letter to leaders in Congress urging them to oppose any legislation or measures that would undermine protections for children provided under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) and the…