IRAP, Sept. 19, 2024 "Today, the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) released a new report detailing the U.S. government’s practice of interdicting refugee families at sea and...
Center for Constitutional Rights, Sept. 16, 2024 "Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, and the Center for Constitutional Rights submitted a petition...
Nancy Guan, WUSF, Sept. 19, 2024 "Maria and her family arrived in the U.S. in December of 2021 — the tail end of a year where encounters at the southern border reached record highs. Many of...
Human Rights Watch, Sept. 18, 2024 "Dear President Biden, Secretary Mayorkas and Secretary Blinken, We, the undersigned human rights, humanitarian, civil society , and faith-based organizations...
EOIR, Sept. 16, 2024 "The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) invites interested stakeholders to participate in its live Model Hearing Program (MHP) event on Sept. 30, 2024. The event...
"A federal judge in Illinois has ruled that Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center, in collaboration with Winston & Strawn LLP, can proceed with a federal lawsuit that challenges the U.S. government’s use of immigration detainers, a key tool in the Secure Communities enforcement program which has resulted in record levels of immigration detention and deportation under the Obama administration. The Honorable John Z. Lee of the U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois found that the two plaintiffs — including a U.S. citizen — can sue the government even though it lifted their detainers soon after they filed the lawsuit. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issues detainers to instruct local police to continue to detain individuals after the local police’s authority has expired, until DHS officers arrive to take the individuals into custody. The plaintiffs are representatives of a possible class action consisting of thousands of individuals subjected to immigration detainers." - NIJC, Dec. 4, 2012.