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Amica Center for Immigrant Rights v. EOIR: Challenging Elimination of Appellate Review before the BIA - National Immigrant Justice Center
2+ week, 6+ day ago (166+ words) Call and message your members of Congress telling them to oppose any effort to give ICE and Border Patrol more funding. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenges the February 6, 2026, Interim Final Rule (IFR)…...
Shift in DHS Leadership Highlights Need to Stop Funding for ICE and Border Patrol - National Immigrant Justice Center
2+ week, 14+ hour ago (95+ words) Call and message your members of Congress telling them to oppose any effort to give ICE and Border Patrol more funding. Today, President Trump announced that he was dismissing his secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Kristi Noem....
NIJC Announces Upcoming Executive Director Transition - National Immigrant Justice Center
2+ week, 3+ day ago (186+ words) Call and message your members of Congress telling them to oppose any effort to give ICE and Border Patrol more funding. On behalf of the Board of Directors, I write with both gratitude and appreciation to share that our Executive…...
Legal Services Organizations Sue to Block Sweeping Immigration Appeals Rule That Eliminates Meaningful Judicial Review - National Immigrant Justice Center
2+ week, 6+ day ago (339+ words) Call and message your members of Congress telling them to oppose any effort to give ICE and Border Patrol more funding. Emergency Filing Seeks Court Order to Halt Implementation of Interim Final Rule that Dismantles Safeguards at the Board of…...
Federal Court Blocks Significant Pieces of Administration’s Sweeping Immigration Appeals Rule That Eliminates Meaningful Judicial Review - National Immigrant Justice Center
1+ week, 3+ day ago (547+ words) Call and message your members of Congress telling them to oppose any effort to give ICE and Border Patrol more funding. Order Halts Implementation of Dangerous Steps that Would Have Dismantled Safeguards at the Board of Immigration Appeals Washington, D.C. " The…...
Immigrant ARC v. Department of Justice: Challenging ICE arrests at Immigration Courthouses - National Immigrant Justice Center
8+ mon, 2+ day ago (198+ words) The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), Democracy Forward, Refugee and Immigrant Center for Legal Education and Services (RAICES), and the Lawyers" Committee for Civil Rights of…...
NIJC celebrates signing of Illinois legislation prohibiting civil immigration arrests in and around state courthouses - National Immigrant Justice Center
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (138+ words) The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) joined Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, state legislators, and partners today for the signing of HB 1312, an omnibus bill strengthening due process protections for Illinois communities who continue to be targeted by the Trump administration's unlawful…...
NIJC Condemns Trump Administration’s Exploitation of Tragedy to Further Demonize Immigrants and Asylum Seekers - National Immigrant Justice Center
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (783+ words) (CHICAGO, 2 December 2025) - The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) issued the following statement after the Trump administration'announced'a series (CHICAGO, 2 December 2025) " The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) issued the following statement after the Trump administration announced a series of discriminatory policies last…...
Members of Congress Hold Field Hearing on Chicago Immigration Raids - National Immigrant Justice Center
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (328+ words) Background & Stories of Impacted Individuals The strong response from local officials, together with know your rights campaigns, rapid response networks, widespread community mobilization, and legal response, has had an important impact countering the severe harm of the increasingly violent raids....
Legal Groups File Emergency Motion to Stop ICE from Jailing Immigrant Teens in Adult Detention - National Immigrant Justice Center
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (251+ words) Washington, D.C. " The American Immigration Council and the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) filed an emergency motion on October 4, seeking to enforce'a 2021 court ruling (in the'Garcia Ramirez v. ICE'case)'that prevents ICE from illegally locking up unaccompanied immigrant children in adult detention…...