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- “I feel peace. … I want women who came here from my country to know that they are not kitchen utensils.” — NIJC client who won asylum after fleeing 16 years of beatings and sexual assault by her husband in Honduras, speaking to The Marshall Project about her fear that others like her will no…
- Linda* wants other women to know that they have rights. Mony Ruiz-Velasco, NIJC Leadership Board member and executive director of PASO-West Suburban Action Project and Itedal Shalabi, executive director of Arab American Family Services, advocate in Springfield for the VOICES Act.A survivor of…
- Even as Congress voted last month to spend billions of tax dollars to extend the southern border wall and expand the immigration prison system, some members understood that Americans have a right to know how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is spending our money and seized the opportunity…
- The Indiana General Assembly has an opportunity to do something constructive, and practical, on an issue that has languished in Washington D.C.: pass legislation that recognizes the presence, humanity and contributions of those with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) status. DACA was…
- Here is what we’ve learned from it, and a link for you to study the data yourself. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is notoriously obscure about the systems it uses to detain immigrants in the United States. Without a court order, it is rare that DHS’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
- Art by AmplifierAll she wanted was a chance to prove to the judge she was turning her life around. Days before Christmas, a 24-year-old Kentucky-raised mother named Estrella* sat in a detention center, awaiting deportation. After months of being locked up by U.S. Immigration and Customs…
- Photo: PixabayThiago* is 17 years old, he loves soccer and astronomy, and is waiting for his college admission letters. He is a typical American teenager, but his journey to get here was not. Thiago fled to the United States alone at the age of 14 to escape gang violence in Honduras. He is most…
- NIJC Attorney Lisa Koop and Sandy at Women's MarchAs Americans respond to the president’s State of the Union address, I reflect on his first year in office. The president’s remarks were the same distorted vitriol we have been hearing since January 2017, when this administration formally announced…
- Sandy Rivera Photo credit: Emma KnutsonOn Saturday, January 20, nearly 4,000 people gathered in downtown Indianapolis for the second annual Women’s March, among the over 1 million people nationwide who marched that day to defend American values of fairness and equality. In the face of adversity…
- NIJC’s Analysis of the White House’s “Framework on Immigration Reform” The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) joins the chorus of calls for Congress to reject the White House’s disingenuous framework for immigration legislation that harms our communities rather than protecting them. Congress…