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Published Oct 28, 2026 A group of legal services organizations today filed a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s new policy of hiding the locations of thousands of people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The policy unlawfully...
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Published Feb 14, 2017 Statement on Reported Detention of DACA Recipient WASHINGTON — Media reports on Tuesday made public the case of Daniel Ramirez Medina, a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, who was detained by U.S. Immigration and...
Published Feb 10, 2017 NILC Statement on the Confirmation of Tom Price to Head HHS LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Senate today voted to confirm Rep. Tom Price of Georgia as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the...
Published Feb 9, 2017 Ninth Circuit Keeps Muslim Ban Temporary Restraining Order in Place LOS ANGELES — A panel of federal judges today rejected the Trump administration’s request to stay a temporary restraining order that temporarily blocks key sections of...
Published Feb 8, 2017 NILC Statement on the Confirmation of Sen. Jeff Sessions as Attorney General WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate today voted to confirm Alabama senator Jeff Sessions as U.S. attorney general, the top post in the Department of Justice. Kamal Essaheb,...
Published Feb 7, 2017 Groups File New Challenge to Trump Muslim Ban BALTIMORE — A new federal lawsuit was filed today challenging President Trump’s Muslim-ban executive order, charging it violates the Constitution—including the First Amendment’s prohibition...
Published Jan 31, 2017 NILC Responds to Nomination to U.S. Supreme Court of Judge Neil Gorsuch LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump today announced the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court. The announcement comes after Senate Republicans...
Published Jan 28, 2017 Federal Court Orders U.S. Government to Allow Refugees and Others Impacted by Trump Immigration Order to Stay NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York has granted a nationwide stay of removal preventing the Trump administration from deporting...
Published Jan 28, 2017 First Lawsuit Filed Challenging Trump’s Order Banning Refugees from the United States NEW YORK — Today some of the nation’s leading civil rights groups filed the first legal challenge to the Trump administration’s executive order...
Published Jan 27, 2017 Trump’s Backdoor Muslim Ban Is an Affront to America’s Core Values and the Constitution NILC and our partners will take the administration to court WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump today acted on his campaign promise to institute a...
Published Jan 25, 2017 Trump’s Extreme Immigration Orders Will Be Costly, Ineffective, and Harmful NILC is prepared to use all resources to defend our communities and rights WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump today signed several executive orders related to...
Published Jan 20, 2017 NILC Statement on the Inauguration of President Donald J. Trump WASHINGTON — The following is a statement by Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, on the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as president...
Published Jan 20, 2017 PHOENIX, Ariz. — Civil and immigrants’ rights attorneys asked a federal court on Friday to temporarily block Arizona from continuing to deny certain lawfully present immigrants, including survivors of domestic violence, access to driver’s...
Published Jan 10, 2017 Sessions Is Unfit to Be Attorney General WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee today will begin hearings to determine whether Sen. Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s selection for U.S. attorney general, is fit to head...
Published Jan 3, 2017 NILC Responds to Johnson Letter on DACA Information WASHINGTON — Responding to concerns about what a future administration could do with the identifying information of individuals who applied for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA),...
Published Dec 22, 2016 NILC Responds to Obama Administration Announcement on NSEERS LOS ANGELES — Responding to a groundswell of advocacy by civil rights groups, the Obama administration is ending the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS), a...