Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) applauds U.S. Representatives Jared Polis (D-CO), Michael Quigley (D-IL), and 26 other members of Congress for holding the Obama administration accountable for sexual abuse against immigrants in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Statement by Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center
In last night’s...
In early January, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it intends to propose a big change to the green card application process which would reduce family separation for...
This holiday season, more than 5,000 children...
By: Claudia Valenzuela
The nightmare began for Nelson* and his family on September 6, 2011. That day, Nelson and his wife, Alicia*, were driving to a doctor’s appointment for their son,...
Our latest collaborative report, Not Too Late for Reform, details ongoing abuses at county jails in the Midwest where immigrants are held and where deplorable conditions mirror those of detention facilities across the country. The report calls on the Obama administration to end expansion and privitization of the system.
In December, over 5,000 children from around the country wrote letters to President Obama asking that no more families be torn apart by deportation and detention. A delegation, including a former NIJC client and his daughter, went to Washington, D.C., to deliver the letters.
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