Immigration
Immigration courts are a federal civil court system under the U.S. Department of Justice. We cover immigration detention, deportation, and other intersections between immigrants and the Cook County courts.
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For years, the child-welfare agency has refused to issue U visa certifications to survivors of child abuse, despite a state law mandating DCFS decide whether victims qualify for one within 90 business days of applying.
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The Chicago Police Department denied hundreds of immigrant crime victims a path to citizenship through the U visa program, sometimes in ways that appeared to contradict state and federal law. Two sergeants with checkered histories in the department were responsible for most of the denials.
The population of older undocumented immigrants in Illinois is growing exponentially, but public policy has left these seniors behind. A collaboration with the Chicago Tribune, this project explored the challenges facing the older undocumented immigrants and the ways individuals, families, and communities are resilient in the face of barriers to accessing social services.
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Illinois just ended ICE detention. What happened to the people detained here?
Injustice Watch spoke to detained immigrants and their families, attorneys, and advocates to better understand what the end of immigration detention in the state meant for the people most affected by it.
Illinois’ ICE detention ban to take effect within weeks following appeals court ruling
Kankakee and McHenry counties will have to terminate their immigration detention contracts after an appeals court ruling Wednesday.
Judge upholds Illinois Way Forward Act, sealing an end to ICE detention in the state
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by two Illinois counties hoping to keep their lucrative immigration detention contracts.
Lawsuit could foil Illinois’ ban on immigration detention
A lawsuit brought by two counties outside Chicago raises questions about immigrant rights activists’ strategy of working to end ICE detention one state and county at a time.
As Illinois bans immigration detention, one Indiana county looks to cash in
The Clay County Jail in southwestern Indiana will soon be the only immigration detention center between Wisconsin and Kentucky. The county is considering a proposal to more than double the jail’s size to detain more immigrants.
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