Individuals deported from the United States face enormous legal and practical barriers to being able to return and rejoin their families and communities in the future. These barriers often convert deportation into a prolonged, if not lifetime, exile...
The National Immigration Project and 139 organizations delivered a letter to the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement calling for the closure of the ICA-Farmville Detention Center in Virginia and release of...
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...
This CLE will discuss how to create the best record before and during the individual hearing and how to use this complete record to your advantage on appeal.
This practice advisory describes the Biden administration’s current prosecutorial discretion policy in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Texas, 143 S. Ct. 1964 (2023), focusing on the 2021 "Mayorkas Memo" and the 2022...
This details the intersection of pardons and immigration and explain why increasing the accessibility, transparency, and frequency with which governors, pardoning bodies, and the president grant pardons should be an advocacy priority.
DHS has created a new “streamlined process” for workers involved in a labor dispute at their workplace to request temporary protection from deportation and a work permit. This FAQ (available in 10 languages) answers top questions about the new...
Florida’s aggressive anti-immigrant laws imperil and harm thousands of noncitizen state residents, including the state’s estimated nearly 800,000 undocumented residents. However, noncitizens in Florida may be able to benefit from federal immigration...
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 alert analyzes the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Pugin v. Garland, 143 S. Ct. 1833 (2023). The June 22 opinion addressed the generic definition of the obstruction of justice aggravated felony ground at 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(S)...