Americans for Immigrant Justice

More than 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant children across the U.S., including hundreds in South Florida, could be forced to navigate the complex U.S. immigration court system without an attorney or legal advisor after federal funding ended Friday, warns the Miami-based Americans for Immigrant Justice.

A class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that people held at the immigrant-detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” are being prevented from having access to lawyers and “effectively have no way to contest their detention.”

Last month immigration rights groups sued the federal government to release migrants in South Florida detention centers because of the risks of infection…

The federal government has designated farm workers as "essential" to the U.S. food supply chain during the COVID-19 crisis. Ironically, about two-thirds…

To help stop transmission of the coronavirus, many federal immigration facilities have closed as of Tuesday night. But many are staying open in South…

South Florida facilities for unaccompanied minors who crossed the U.S. border have loomed large in the debate over the treatment of the youngest…

One of the more disturbing sounds to hit the media airwaves last summer was a recording obtained by ProPublica of Central American children crying at an…

For more than 50 years, Father Frank O’Laughlin has helped protect and promote the most vulnerable immigrants and refugees in South Florida. The Roman…

Typically, when people are in the court system they want their cases heard as quickly as possible. But asylum requests are different.Building an asylum…

Khizr Khan is the immigrant Gold Star father who denounced presidential candidate Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention. Before receiving an…