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    NILC Responds to Enactment of the Families First Act

    NILC Responds to Enactment of the Families First Act

    Published Mar 18, 2020 LOS ANGELES — As communities across the United States take unprecedented measures to stop the spread of COVID-19, President Trump signed a relief package into law today, the Families First Act, that aims to address some of the challenges...

    No Muslim Ban Ever Coalition Responds to House Decision to Delay Vote on NO BAN Act

    No Muslim Ban Ever Coalition Responds to House Decision to Delay Vote on NO BAN Act

    Published Mar 12, 2020 WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the U.S. House of Representatives removed from its calendar a scheduled vote on the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants (NO BAN)...

    NILC Statement on House of Representatives’ Delay of Vote on NO BAN Act

    NILC Statement on House of Representatives’ Delay of Vote on NO BAN Act

    Published Mar 12, 2020 WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the U.S. House of Representatives removed from its calendar a scheduled vote on the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants (NO BAN)...

    National Immigration Law Center Announces Key Leadership Hires

    National Immigration Law Center Announces Key Leadership Hires

    Published Feb 26, 2020 LOS ANGELES — The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) announced today the addition of two senior staff to its leadership team: Adnan Bokhari will serve as NILC’s chief operating officer, and Victoria Ballesteros has joined the team as...

    Fight Fear With Facts, NILC Urges As Trump Public Charge Policy Takes Effect

    Fight Fear With Facts, NILC Urges As Trump Public Charge Policy Takes Effect

    Published Feb 24, 2020 WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of State today began implementing the Trump administration’s new “public charge” regulations, a cornerstone of the administration’s attempts to redefine the...

    Federal Court Finds Conditions in Customs and Border Protection Detention Facilities Unconstitutional

    Federal Court Finds Conditions in Customs and Border Protection Detention Facilities Unconstitutional

    Published Feb 19, 2020 TUCSON, AZ — A federal court today ordered U.S. Customs and Border Protection to overhaul the way the agency detains people in its custody in its Tucson Sector.

    No Muslim Ban Ever Coalition Urges Support of NO BAN Act As It Moves into Committee Markup

    No Muslim Ban Ever Coalition Urges Support of NO BAN Act As It Moves into Committee Markup

    Published Feb 12, 2020 WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the House Judiciary Committee will begin the markup process on the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants Act, also known as the NO BAN...

    Las Vegas Resident Files Federal Lawsuit Challenging Local Law Enforcement for Violating His Constitutional Rights Through Collaboration Efforts with ICE

    Las Vegas Resident Files Federal Lawsuit Challenging Local Law Enforcement for Violating His Constitutional Rights Through Collaboration Efforts with ICE

    Published Feb 6, 2020 LAS VEGAS, NV — David Adame-Reyes, a longtime Las Vegas resident, who was subject to an unlawful arrest and wrongful detention after being ordered released by a judge, sued Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo and the Las Vegas Metropolitan...

    No Muslim Ban Ever Coalition Condemns Trump Administration’s Expanded Muslim Ban

    No Muslim Ban Ever Coalition Condemns Trump Administration’s Expanded Muslim Ban

    Published Jan 31, 2020 SAN FRANCISCO — The No Muslim Ban Ever campaign, a coalition of progressive, faith, immigrant, asylum, refugee, and civil rights groups, denounces the Trump administration’s latest iteration of the Muslim ban that will expand restrictions...

    Advocates Urge Families to Fight Fear with Facts as Public Charge Implementation Date Announced

    Advocates Urge Families to Fight Fear with Facts as Public Charge Implementation Date Announced

    Published Jan 31, 2020 WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday its intent to begin implementing the Trump administration’s public charge regulation (PDF) on February 24 and that an applicant’s use of public programs covered...

    Civil Rights Groups Argue in the Fourth Circuit to Challenge Trump Administration’s Muslim Ban

    Civil Rights Groups Argue in the Fourth Circuit to Challenge Trump Administration’s Muslim Ban

    Published Jan 28, 2020 WASHINGTON, DC —  Today, three years after the Trump administration announced the first iteration of the Muslim ban, civil rights groups argued before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in an ongoing challenge to the latest version of the...

    Supreme Court Ruling Allows Trump Administration to Implement Anti-Immigrant Regulation While Challenges Are Heard

    Supreme Court Ruling Allows Trump Administration to Implement Anti-Immigrant Regulation While Challenges Are Heard

    Published Jan 27, 2020 WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court today temporarily lifted nationwide court orders blocking implementation of the Trump administration’s public charge regulation, allowing this widely opposed wealth test to take effect while several...

    Trial Challenging Unconstitutional Conditions Inside U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Facilities in Arizona Ends

    Trial Challenging Unconstitutional Conditions Inside U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Facilities in Arizona Ends

    Published Jan 22, 2020 TUCSON — Today, a federal judge heard closing arguments in Doe v. Wolf, a lawsuit filed by the National Immigration Law Center, the ACLU of Arizona, the American Immigration Council, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San...

    Immigrant Rights Advocates and Individual Immigrants File Petition to Block Three Interrelated “Public Charge” Rules

    Immigrant Rights Advocates and Individual Immigrants File Petition to Block Three Interrelated “Public Charge” Rules

    Published Jan 21, 2020 NEW YORK, NY — Today, immigrant rights advocates filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) for a preliminary injunction in Make the Road New York v. Pompeo, the first federal lawsuit seeking to...

    Migrant Justice Settles Discrimination Lawsuit with Vermont DMV

    Migrant Justice Settles Discrimination Lawsuit with Vermont DMV

    Published Jan 15, 2020 MONTPELIER, VT — Human rights organization Migrant Justice and the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles have reached a settlement in a federal antidiscrimination lawsuit.