National Immigration Law Center

Promoting health and economic well-being for all - nilc continued co-leading the protecting immigrant families campaign to fight the administration's efforts to strip immigrants' access to critical healthcare and safety net programs. The campaign primarily focused on challenging a department of homeland security policy designed to drastically restrict who can enter or stay with their families in the u.s., based on their use of public assistance programs. These "public charge" rule changes are designed to send immigrant familiesespecially immigrants of colortrying to make ends meet one message: you are not welcome in the u.s. nilc helped lead the campaign's efforts to generate over a quarter million public comments opposing the rule, breaking the record for comments submitted on a proposed dhs regulation. Those comments helped form the basis of arguments for legal challenges aimed at preventing the rule from being implemented. Nilc and campaign partners also provided resources and guidance ...

Advancing pro-immigrant policy solutions - amid Immigration crackdowns by the federal government and rising anti-immigrant sentiment, nilc made significant progress on advancing more humane and inclusive policies in local communities through its winning in the states initiative. The initiative's goals are to: achieve pro-immigrant policy victories across the country that can serve as a counterpoint to the punishing Immigration agenda being advanced at the federal level; amplify these victories to change the way people think about Immigration and immigrants in the u.s.; and help immigrants' rights groups build greater power so that they can push for progressive policies from the ground up. In the initiative's first year, nilc provided intensive legal, policy, and communications support to wits campaign state partners in Colorado, new jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and new mexico. This support helped advocates expand immigrants' access to driver's licenses, limit local Law enforcement officials from helping federal agents detain ...

Challenging discriminatory policies and the criminalization of immigrants - nilc continued to support deferred action for childhood arrivals recipients and their families struggling with the chaotic results of the trump administration's attempts to end the daca program. District court rulings, in a lawsuit nilc is co-counseling, as well as in other cases, have allowed over 473,000 young americans-in-waiting to renew their daca so far. Nilc challenged arbitrary and unlawful deportations of daca recipients and other immigrants and advocated for policy solutions that will allow immigrants in the u.s. to stay with their families and contribute their full potential to their adopted home country. Nilc also co-led a campaign to challenge the trump administration's efforts to bar muslims from reuniting with family or resettling in the u.s. and highlight the islamophobia and discrimination that triggered the ban and related back-door restrictions. Nilc used litigation strategies to challenge Immigration detentions and raids, ...