Statement by Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center
In last night’s State of the Union address, President Obama acknowledged that a welcoming immigration policy will play a critical role in restoring our country’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 thousands of U.S. citizens whose family members apply for permanent residence.
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This holiday season, more than 5,000 children across the United States wrote to President Obama asking for him to make their wish a reality: that no more families be torn apart by deportation and detention. NIJC co-sponsored the “A Wish for the...
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, Carlos*, who was scheduled to receive an MRI that day. At 29 months, Carlos has been diagnosed with developmental disabilities and has the mental and physical capacities of a 10 month old. Since his...
This article featured in Business Law Today about the benefits and invaluable experience that pro bono asylum work provides for transactional attorneys, and the special contributions transactional attorneys can make in this area is written by Chad Doobay, one of NIJC's dedicated pro bono attorney partners.
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On August 9th, 2011, the National Immigrant Justice Center and pro bono attorneys from McDermott Will & Emery LLP obtained asylum for a woman from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) based on the harm that she suffered as a victim of sex trafficking.
This decision was unique in several ways. First, to establish asylum eligibility, an individual must...
Today NIJC joined a host of social service organizations in launching the first Deportation Family Support Hotline in the country, an effort led by the Illinois Coalition for...
On August 26, 2011, NIJC filed an amicus brief in support of the asylum application of Mei Fun Wong. Ms. Wong is a Chinese woman seeking asylum because she was forced to endure the insertion of an intrauterine device (IUD) against her will. Her case was denied by an...
On September 1, 2011, the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), with the pro bono assistance of SNR Denton US LLP, filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regarding the terrorism-related...
The Obama administration’s newest prosecutorial discretion initiative will provide some relief to a fraction of the thousands of men and women currently facing deportation from the United States. But it also will leave many immigrant families in limbo and fails to offer serious long-term solutions to a severely flawed immigration system.
“The Obama administration has finally...
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