Press Releases

While today’s ruling brings great relief for NIJC and our immigrant communities, it also affirms that the we must continue fighting to uphold our nation’s promise of or equal justice for all.

In two disastrous rulings today, the U.S. Supreme Court joined the Trump administration in dismantling U.S. laws that have been in place for generations to offer refuge to people fleeing persecution, violence, and natural disasters.

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) Board of Directors announced today that Keren Zwick will lead the organization as its executive director beginning July 13.

Congress passed a bill to send about $70 billion in new funding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), nearly one year after writing the Trump administration another blank check with taxpayer money worth over $170 billion.

Congress’s hypocrisy revealed: Leaders release plans for $30 billion more for mass detention and deportations as Congress votes on additional

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed Ashley’s Law (HB4890), implementing critical protections for unaccompanied children who are in federal immigration custody in Illinois.

This week, Chicago and Indianapolis immigration courts, along with other immigration courts across the country, began holding mass preliminary hearings, in which groups of about 30 or more people, many without lawyers, appeared together before a single judge and were pressured to expedite their removal proceedings.

Acacia Center for Justice, National Center for Youth Law, National Immigrant Justice Center, and Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights Urge Congress to Vote No on $71 Billion in New Funds for ICE and Border Patrol.

The claims against the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies detail the shocking experiences of residents at the hands of federal agents who stormed the building, broke down doors without warrants, and rounded up adults and children alike at gunpoint in the middle of the night.

The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued a decision affirming an October 2025 ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey Cummings which extended the Castañon Nava Consent Decree and ordered the release of individuals unlawfully arrested without warrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol officers.

Lawsuit Seeks to Block New Policy that Keeps Noncitizens with Pending Immigration Applications from Completing Biometric Collection Washington, D.C. —

A federal appeals court today ruled that President Trump’s Day 1 proclamation aimed at completely shutting down asylum at the border is unlawful.