The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is a center affiliated with the Heartland Alliance in the United States that "is dedicated to ensuring human rights protections and access to justice for all immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
"[1] Its executive director is Mary Meg McCarthy[2][3] and it is headquartered in Chicago.
[1] NIJC has a number of programs dedicated to helping immigrants and affording them legal representation and protection:[4] NIJC's work has been cited in articles about immigration, immigrant detention, and refugees in the New York Times[13][14][15] the Wall Street Journal,[16] The Guardian,[17] and numerous other publications.
[18][19][20] Letters from the editor by NIJC's executive director have been published by the NYT[3][21] and WSJ.
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