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    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.

    Immigrant Rights Advocates in New York File First Federal Lawsuit to Jointly Block Three Interrelated “Public Charge” Rules

    Immigrant Rights Advocates in New York File First Federal Lawsuit to Jointly Block Three Interrelated “Public Charge” Rules

    Published Dec 19, 2019 NEW YORK — Today, immigrant rights advocates in New York filed Make the Road New York v. Pompeo, the first federal lawsuit seeking to jointly block three interrelated “public charge” rules promulgated by the Trump...

    Spending Compromise Hurts Immigrant Communities

    Spending Compromise Hurts Immigrant Communities

    Published Dec 17, 2019 WASHINGTON, DC — Ahead of the vote in the House of Representatives on a governmentwide spending bill, Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, issued the following...

    New Jersey To Join Growing Number of States Extending Access to Driver’s Licenses for All Residents

    New Jersey To Join Growing Number of States Extending Access to Driver’s Licenses for All Residents

    Published Dec 16, 2019 TRENTON, NJ — The New Jersey State Legislature voted today to pass critical legislation that expands access to driver’s licenses to all residents who are otherwise eligible, regardless of immigration...

    Appeals Court Ruling Reckless, Advocates Warn

    Appeals Court Ruling Reckless, Advocates Warn

    Published Dec 10, 2019 WASHINGTON, DC — A federal appeals court Monday lifted the second of four court orders blocking implementation of the Trump administration’s public charge regulations, which threaten the health, nutrition, and housing of millions of...

    NILC and NILC Immigrant Justice Fund Welcome New Board Members

    NILC and NILC Immigrant Justice Fund Welcome New Board Members

    Published Oct 28, 2019 LOS ANGELES — The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) and the NILC Immigrant Justice Fund (IJF) each has added a new member to its board of directors: Angela Banks now serves on NILC’s board, and Ginette Magaña serves on IJF’s...

    Senate Letter Challenging Trump “Junk” Insurance Mandate Applauded

    Senate Letter Challenging Trump “Junk” Insurance Mandate Applauded

    Published Oct 23, 2019 WASHINGTON — United States Senators Patty Murray (D-Washington) and Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), ranking Democrats on key Senate committees with jurisdiction over health care, today sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex...

    Courts Block Trump Public Charge Regulations

    Courts Block Trump Public Charge Regulations

    Published Oct 11, 2019 WASHINGTON, DC — Federal courts today issued national injunctions blocking any implementation of the Trump administration’s “public charge” regulations, which threaten the health, nutrition, and housing of millions of...

    Eleventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Lawsuit Challenging Georgia City’s Policies Unlawfully Restricting Access to Basic Utility Services

    Eleventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Lawsuit Challenging Georgia City’s Policies Unlawfully Restricting Access to Basic Utility Services

    Published Oct 11, 2019 ATLANTA — The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday issued a unanimous opinion and order vacating the 2017 decision of a U.S. district court in Georgia in Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, et al. v. City of LaGrange, thus allowing...

    DACA Recipients, Broad Coalition of Immigrants’ Rights Organizations Launch “Home Is Here” Campaign Ahead of Crucial Supreme Court Hearing

    DACA Recipients, Broad Coalition of Immigrants’ Rights Organizations Launch “Home Is Here” Campaign Ahead of Crucial Supreme Court Hearing

    Published Oct 2, 2019 WASHINGTON, DC — Ahead of the November 12, 2019, U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in three consolidated cases regarding President Trump’s unlawful termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, DACA recipients...

    Immigrant Advocates Support Hirono Bill Blocking “Public Charge” Regulations

    Immigrant Advocates Support Hirono Bill Blocking “Public Charge” Regulations

    Published Sep 17, 2019 WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) has introduced the Protect American Values Act, legislation that would prohibit the use of federal funds to implement the Trump administration’s “public charge”...