Amica Center for Immigrants’ Rights (formerly CAIR Coalition), the National Immigration Project, and the ACLU of Virginia sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), for arbitrarily detaining people in Virginia after they won immigration cases...
J.O.P. v. DHS, No. 19-1944, is a certified nationwide class action venued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland challenging a Trump administration policy that limited the ability to seek asylum for certain children who arrived in...
The government’s own medical experts have called coronavirus in immigration detention facilities a “tinderbox scenario.” Particularly as infection spreads throughout immigration detention centers, the medically vulnerable fear for their very lives...
The Trump Administration’s Remain in Mexico policy has trapped asylum seekers in dangerous border towns in Mexico, where they are forced to navigate a complex asylum process without access to counsel or other safeguards guaranteed by our immigration...
CREW, the National Immigration Project (NIPNLG) and Project South are suing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for failing to turn over records of non-consensual medical procedures performed on individuals in ICE custody, including...
The Trump Administration’s new criminal bars to asylum will dramatically reduce the availability of asylum to people fleeing persecution and further their criminalization. The unprecedented expansion of these categorical bars rely on racially biased...
On December 21, 2020, NIPNLG and its partners filed litigation on behalf of fourteen women who suffered medical abuse at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia. More than 40 women filed sworn testimony in court revealing a relentless pattern of...
In the summer of 2020, ICA-Farmville became the site of the largest COVID-19 outbreak in any immigration detention center in the country at the time. The outbreak was caused by ICE's transfer of 74 people, 51 of whom had COVID-19, from detention...