Howard Bailey, who spent 10 years in exile because of an unjust deportation and was able to return home to the U.S. after advocacy through NIJC’s Chance to Come Home campaign, has officially become a U.S. citizen.

Read The Washington Post's coverage of Howard's story.

NIJC and partner organizations filed a new lawsuit against the Biden administration over its sweeping asylum ban. The suit represents individual asylum seekers and legal aid groups and challenges a rapid deportation process that wrongfully returns people back to persecution and grave danger.

Read more.

The Biden administration promised people access to lawyers after forcing them through rushed initial asylum screenings in border patrol custody. Months later, that promise still has not been fulfilled. NIJC's new report examines the government's efforts to block access to counsel.

Read our full report and coverage by the Associated Press.

NIJC Executive Director Mary Meg McCarthy appeared in a WGN-TV 'From the Border to Chicago' segment with Representative Mike Quigley to discuss why it's important for recently arriving migrants to have access to work permits.

Watch the full interview on WGN.

Craig Mousin, one of NIJC’s founders and leadership board member, joined The Today Show with his friend and Syrian refugee, Emad. They met and worked together at DePaul University where Craig is a professor and ombudsperson. Craig said that Emad is a testament to "the power of the human spirit to survive."

Watch the story on The Today Show.

Congratulations to this woman for passing her citizenship interview, just in time for the 4^th of July!

Getting to this final step and preparing for this interview took a lot commitment and hard work from her and her legal team, including pro bono attorneys Tim Kincaid and Jose Rodriguez from Winston & Strawn LLP.

Congratulations to her and the legal team for reaching this tremendous milestone!