Family separation is not over. We are responding with legal action.
While the President's executive order claims that the administration will end their policy of separating children from their parents at the border, in reality, families are still apart at this very moment.
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A Cruel, Fatal Decision
Answering your questions regarding Attorney General Sessions heartless decision affecting asylum seekers.
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Ready to Fight at the U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court announced that it agreed to review two class actions involving the right of immigrants in detention to have an opportunity to seek bond hearings from an immigration judge.
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The DACA Deadline Is Still There – We Just Don’t Know When It Is
If President Trump had his way, today—March 5—would mark the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA program.
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Good News And (Very) Bad News From The Supreme Court
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two rulings that have a significant impact on immigrant and refugee communities.
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Announcing Our First Deputy Director
We are pleased to announce that Malou Chávez has been selected as NWIRP’s first-ever Deputy Director.
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Our Victory Against a Once-Secret Government Program
We are celebrating an important court victory that will allow us to advocate on behalf of community members who had been denied immigration protections.
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NWIRP v. Sessions
The Department of Justice is trying to stop us from helping immigrants facing deportation, so we took them to court.
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Our Week in Action Since Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’
We've been working hard since the Trump Administration's 'Muslim Ban'
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Our Work in Action Since Election Day
Read about how we've been defending and advancing immigrant rights since the election.
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On Immigration Detention, Private Prisons, and Our Commitment to Justice
We believe that, rather than spending months on a review of private immigration prisons, DHS should be taking bold action now to eliminate the use of private contractors for immigration detention and radically decrease the detention of immigrants, period.
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Get to Know our Children’s Case
Each week, in immigration courts across the United States, hundreds of children come before immigration judges and are forced to represent themselves against deportation.
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Good News in our Children’s Case
Our children's case has grown from around a dozen named plaintiffs to a case involving thousands of children facing deportation without an attorney after being granted a certified class
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17 Year Old from Somalia Unlawfully Detained by ICE
On May 3rd, a federal judge in Seattle ruled that ICE had illegally detained Bilal, a seventeen-year-old from Somalia, at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, after arresting him at his high school and taking him away from his foster family, where he was thriving.
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Can a 3-Year-Old Represent Themselves in Deportation Proceedings?
The top Department of Justice official in charge of training immigration court judges believes children, even children as young as 3-years-old, can represent themselves in immigration court.
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2015 Year in Review
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project continues to protect individuals from violence, keep families together, and change immigration policies on a national level. Here are a few highlights from another year of defending and advancing the rights of immigrants.
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Recapping our Evening of Justice at Wing Luke
Check out pictures from our recent Evening of Justice at the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle
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NWIRP Receives ACLU’s Lifetime Achievement Award
We are honored to be receiving the William O. Douglas Award, the ACLU’s lifetime achievement award, for our three decades of work to ensure that our legal system enforces the guarantees of the Bill of Rights to all people in America.
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Recapping our Happy Hour at Icicle Ridge Winery
Pictures and a powerful client story from our happy hour event in central Washington.
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On the Asylum Seeker Crisis in Europe and Limitations of Refugee Protections
How the current crisis in Europe is a tragic reminder of how limited our protections for asylum seekers are in the United States and internationally.
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Our Families, Our Future
This video recaps some of our largest victories from the past year.
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Immigration Glossary
We've put together a glossary of common immigration-related terms to help you better understand them.
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NWIRP Changes Lives Video
Check out this incredible video featuring interviews with our clients, produced for our 30th anniversary gala.
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“Illegal” vs. “Undocumented”: Our Board President’s Perspective
NWIRP Board President Monika Batra Kashyap explains why using the term "illegal" is both legally and morally wrong.
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Pictures from May Day 2015
Our Executive Director shares his thoughts on May Day 2015 and NWIRP's involvement in the peaceful march.
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