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    Groups File Federal Lawsuit Over Tennessee’s New Extreme Anti-Immigrant Law

    Groups File Federal Lawsuit Over Tennessee’s New Extreme Anti-Immigrant Law

    Published Jun 4, 2026 The National Immigration Law Center, American Civil Liberties Union, and ACLU of Tennessee filed a federal class-action lawsuit today challenging a new Tennessee law, HB 1704, that unconstitutionally usurps federal immigration enforcement power...

    NILC Statement Responding to Fifth Circuit Decision on SB 4

    NILC Statement Responding to Fifth Circuit Decision on SB 4

    Published Apr 24, 2026 Lynn Damiano Pearson, director of legal strategy at the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), issued the following statement after a federal court issued a decision allowing Texas’ SB 4 to take...

    NILC Denounces DOJ’s Indictment of Southern Poverty Law Center

    NILC Denounces DOJ’s Indictment of Southern Poverty Law Center

    Published Apr 21, 2026 Kica Matos, president of the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), issued the following statement after the Department of Justice announced an indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center...

    NILC and IJF President Kica Matos Named to TIME’s Annual TIME100 List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World

    NILC and IJF President Kica Matos Named to TIME’s Annual TIME100 List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World

    Published Apr 15, 2026 TIME named Kica Matos, president of the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) and the Immigrant Justice Fund (IJF) to the 2026 TIME100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the...

    NILC’s Freedom to Thrive Podcast Nominated for Best Podcast – Belonging & Inclusion in the 30th Annual Webby Awards

    NILC’s Freedom to Thrive Podcast Nominated for Best Podcast – Belonging & Inclusion in the 30th Annual Webby Awards

    Published Apr 8, 2026 WASHINGTON — The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) is proud to announce that its Freedom to Thrive podcast has been nominated for best Podcasts - Belonging & Inclusion in the 30th Annual Webby...

    Federal Court Rejects Trump Administration Bid to Strip Rights Protections for Immigrant Children

    Federal Court Rejects Trump Administration Bid to Strip Rights Protections for Immigrant Children

    Published Apr 7, 2026 A federal district court has rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to eliminate a 40-year-old court order protecting the due process rights of unaccompanied immigrant children in government...

    NILC Statement on the Release of Antonio Yesayahu Gámez-Cuéllar from ICE Detention

    NILC Statement on the Release of Antonio Yesayahu Gámez-Cuéllar from ICE Detention

    Published Mar 9, 2026 McAllen, Texas— Efrén C. Olivares, vice president of litigation and legal strategy at the National Immigration Law Center, issued the following statement after the release of Antonio Yesayahu Gámez-Cuéllar, an 18-year-old high school...

    NILC Statement on Trump’s Firing of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem

    NILC Statement on Trump’s Firing of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem

    Published Mar 5, 2026 WASHINGTON — Kica Matos, president of the National Immigration Law Center, issued the following statement after President Trump announced he will replace Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem with Sen. Markwayne Mullin:...

    Advocates Take Legal Action to Block Trump Administration’s Move to Terminate 40 Year Protections for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children

    Advocates Take Legal Action to Block Trump Administration’s Move to Terminate 40 Year Protections for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children

    Published Feb 11, 2026 The National Immigration Law Center (NILC), Public Counsel, Gilbert Carrasco, Cohen Milstein, and Quinn Emanuel are back in federal court to defend a permanent injunction that has protected unaccompanied immigrant children in U.S. custody since...

    Immigrant Families, Workers, Legal Assistance Groups Challenge Trump Admin’s 75 Country Visa Ban in Federal Court

    Immigrant Families, Workers, Legal Assistance Groups Challenge Trump Admin’s 75 Country Visa Ban in Federal Court

    Published Feb 2, 2026 A group of United States citizens petitioning on behalf of their immigrant family members, together with working people facing exclusion from the U.S. and nonprofit organizations today filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s...

    Statement on Kim Kardashian’s Donation to NILC

    Statement on Kim Kardashian’s Donation to NILC

    Published Jan 30, 2026 NILC President Kica Matos issued the following statement on Kim Kardashian's donation to the organization.

    NILC Statement Following U.S. Senate Vote on DHS Funding

    NILC Statement Following U.S. Senate Vote on DHS Funding

    Published Jan 29, 2026 WASHINGTON — Kica Matos, president of the National Immigration Law Center, issued the following statement following the U.S. Senate vote on DHS funding:

    Civil, Immigrants’ Rights Leaders Speak Out Against Trump Admin.’s Sweeping Indefinite Suspension of Immigrant Visa Processing from 75 Countries 

    Civil, Immigrants’ Rights Leaders Speak Out Against Trump Admin.’s Sweeping Indefinite Suspension of Immigrant Visa Processing from 75 Countries 

    Published Jan 21, 2026 As the Trump administration’s suspension on immigrant visa processing of people from 75 countries is set to go into effect, leaders with the National Immigration Law Center, Democracy Forward, and the Western Center on Law & Poverty decried...

    NILC Statement on Killing of Woman in Minneapolis by ICE

    NILC Statement on Killing of Woman in Minneapolis by ICE

    Published Jan 7, 2026 WASHINGTON — Kica Matos, president of the National Immigration Law Center, issued the following statement after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis:

    NILC Statement on the Trump Administration’s Suspension of the Diversity Visa Program

    NILC Statement on the Trump Administration’s Suspension of the Diversity Visa Program

    Published Dec 19, 2025 WASHINGTON — Kica Matos, president of the National Immigration Law Center, issued the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s suspension of the diversity visa program:...