Press Releases

The National Immigration Project, Detention Watch Network, Legal Aid Justice Center, and the National Immigrant Justice Center sent a letter yesterday to the Prince Edward County Board of Supervisors alerting them of violations of Virginia law when...

This morning, the National Immigration Project and Muslim Advocates filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) against the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) and US Customs and...

This morning, Van Der Hout LLP, National Immigration Project, Center for Constitutional Rights, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) and Muslim Advocates filed a complaint with the US District Court in Northern California requesting that...

Washington, DC – A group of senators yesterday released a funding bill that would expand detention and deportation, implement extreme and harmful border policies, and effectively decimate the U.S. asylum system in exchange for foreign aid. The Senate...

The National Immigration Project today filed a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) administrative complaint with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on behalf of Hamad Moshen Thabit Saad Sayad (“Sayad”), a Yemeni citizen who came to the United...

Several media outlets have reported that the Biden administration is considering caving to Republican demands to codify an asylum ban, make it more difficult for people to pass their asylum screening, and expand expedited removal in order to secure...

The National Immigration Project today filed a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on behalf of two Salvadoran men who were detained under ICE custody at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center (Moshannon), a prison owned...

Washington, DC–Last week the Biden Administration announced that it will waive environmental, public health, and cultural resource protection laws to fast-track construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Texas. This decision flatly contradicts...