In the past two years the Biden administration has issued regulations which have dramatically affected asylum seekers’ rights both at the border and in subsequent merits’ adjudications. NIPNLG has created a chart as an easy reference to see what...
On June 7, 2024, the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice issued an Interim Final Rule, preventing virtually all asylum seekers who enter the United States irregularly from qualifying for asylum. NIPNLG submitted a comment...
NIPNLG submitted a public comment strongly opposing a DHS proposed rule, which would allow asylum officers to apply complex bars at border fear screenings for the first time ever. These bars which may result from false criminal charges by persecutory...
On May 31, 2024 the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it plans to use more resources and expand collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to increase immigration-related criminal prosecutions. Punishing people for coming to the...
The Department of Homeland Security’s Family Reunification Task Force has established a parole process for persons who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border as a result of the Trump administration’s Zero-Tolerance Policy and other similar Trump...
The Department of Homeland Security’s Family Reunification Task Force has established a parole process for persons who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border as a result of the Trump administration’s Zero-Tolerance Policy and other similar Trump...
In August 2019, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) carried out massive workplace raids on chicken processing plants across Central Mississippi, arresting 680 Indigenous, Latino, and immigrant poultry workers. This explainer addresses the...
The National Immigration Project and 44 other civil and human rights groups who represent or work closely with people from Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian communities delivered a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice to express...
In light of the escalating and increasingly dangerous situation in Texas, the National Immigration Project and an additional 107 organizations, delivered a letter to DHS to call on its agencies to take stronger actions to disavow, investigate, and...
This practice advisory, authored by the National Immigration Project and the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, offers a comprehensive review of strategies for reopening cases that were denied under the Migrant Protection Protocols ("MPP")...