As I step into the role of NIJC’s Executive Director, I am filled with gratitude: Gratitude for the leaders who came before me, especially Mary Meg McCarthy. Before retiring this summer, Mary Meg led ...
As I step into the role of NIJC’s Executive Director, I am filled with gratitude: Gratitude for the leaders who came before me, especially Mary Meg McCarthy. Before retiring this summer, Mary Meg led ...
NIJC, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), and pro bono partner McDermott Will & Emery LLP filed an amici brief in support of Oshodi’s peititon for rehearing en banc at the U.S. Court ...
NIJC experts provide an overview of representing detained immigrants in bond proceedings for practitioners looking to take on their first bond case, pro bono attorneys seeking quick impactful cases or ...
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) and partners filed a lawsuit challenging an interim final rule that allows U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to send people seeking asylum ...
In Spring 2026, some immigration courts began holding status hearings where dozens of unrepresented individuals are scheduled to appear at the same time. These individuals may be given a deadline to ...
In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, when the immigration detention system began its unprecedented growth, the world slowly began to hear about the troubling conditions of detention that immigrants ...
In a democratic forum today in Washington, D.C. led by Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) and Committee on Homeland Security, personally impacted people and civil rights and immigration groups ...
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently announced a new initiative to re-interview many refugees and asylees who have recently been admitted to the United States. While it is ...
Congress first criminalized the act of entering or reentering the country without authorization nearly a century ago, in pursuit of xenophobic and eugenicist policy goals. 1 For much of the last ...
Ashley graduated from Coe College in 2024 with a BA in Social and Criminal Justice and Spanish. During her undergraduate career, she interned with the Illinois Prison Project in Chicago and the ...
Asylum in the United States is a lifesaving necessity for LGBTQ and HIV-positive people. For decades, many have fled to the United States to seek refuge from persecution and torture. However, the ...
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