NIJC Calls for Program’s Termination
As families continue to flee persecution and torture around the world, the Biden administration keeps introducing new inhumane programs intended to deport people as quickly as possible. The most recent program, the Family Expedited Removal Management (FERM)…
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) joined human rights, privacy and civil liberties organizations in calling for an investigation into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reliance on unreliable information from foreign governments in enforcement practices and immigration proceedings…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently issued two press statements touting the deportations of families to Central America and sharing b-roll footage of ICE putting families on deportation flights. The video footage is a loop of mothers, fathers, and children ranging from babies to…
Court does not rule on merits and places case on speedy review schedule
A federal appeals court today said the Biden administration’s new asylum ban, which was ruled illegal by a federal judge on July 25, could remain in effect as the appeal is heard. In the same order, the court put the…
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) has made the difficult decision to discontinue legal consultations and representation for asylum seekers facing their initial screenings in Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detention centers near the U.S.-Mexico border. The decision comes after NIJC…
Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee passed its funding proposal for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for Fiscal Year 2024, which disproportionately favors detention and punitive enforcement at the expense of humane immigration processing and logical border management.…
A federal court today blocked the Biden administration’s new asylum ban, but delayed its ruling from taking effect for 14 days.
The plaintiffs — East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, American Gateways, Central American Resource Center, Immigrant Defenders Law Center, National Center for Lesbian Rights, and…
National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) Executive Director Mary Meg McCarthy responded with the following statement to media reports exposing allegations of abuse by Texas troopers against people attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border to seek asylum:
"Dehumanizing rhetoric and policies result…
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) delivered a letter today to recently appointed Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Patrick Lechleitner, urging him to take advantage of his leadership position to address human rights and due process violations within the…
The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of the District of Columbia, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, and National Immigrant Justice Center today sued the Biden administration over its sweeping asylum ban on behalf of individual asylum seekers, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, and…