The National Immigrant Justice Center provides immigration legal services to low-income immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.
Our direct-service experience informs our reform-driven policy advocacy, impact litigation, and public education efforts to defend immigrant rights.
News and views on immigration law and policy.
"If our government is serious about fixing our country's broken immigration system, it must move beyond its single-minded focus on creating new deportation policies," said National Immigrant Justice Center Director Mary Meg McCarthy. "By creating new programs like Operation Scheduled Departure, ICE does nothing more than separate families, harm communities, erode due process, and in the worst cases, subject men, women, and children to danger in their native countries." Read more...
A daily digest of immigration-related federal court decisions from around the United States.
Top StoriesA 21-year ban to entry for foreigners who are HIV-positive was lifted this week when President Bush signed the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Read more...Effective Immigration Reform Must Go Beyond Creating New Deportation Programs Immigrants Should Seek Legal Advice Before Reporting for "Self-Deportation" As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rolls out a new program that encourages immigrants to turn themselves in for deportation, Heartland Alliance's National Immigrant Justice Center strongly encourages anyone considering the "self-deportation" option to first consult a qualified immigration lawyer. Read more...Senate Bill Lifts HIV Ban For Foreign Visitors and Immigrants The U.S. Senate's vote today in favor of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief marked an important step toward lifting a 21-year bar to entry for foreigners who are HIV-positive. Read more... One Immigrant's StoryA refugee woman talks about her efforts to access medical care during nearly two years of detention in a county jail under the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Read more... Pro Bono Q&AColby Kingsbury of Kirkland and Ellis learned a lot about the complexities and disappointments of U.S. immigration law during the more than two and a half years she spent representing a detained refugee man. Read more... |