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Centering Migrant Rights at the Global Forum on Migration & Development
“Resistance is not just endurance,” stated Pedro Rios of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, reflecting on his work to uphold migrant rights at the U.S-Mexico border. “Resistance means building something new, and being ...
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Isabel Garcia Featured on The Border Chronicle Podcast
NNIRR Board Member Isabel Garcia has been an powerful advocate for immigrant and refugee rights for five decades. Based in Tucson, Arizona, she is the co-chair of Coalicion de Derechos Humanos, a grassroots organization that promotes ...
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Border Agents Found Responsible for the Death of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas
“In May 2010, longtime San Diego resident Anastasio Hernández Rojas was brutally beaten by over a dozen border agents as they were trying to deport him. By the time he arrived at the hospital, the 42-year-old ...
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Justice Denied: New Rulings Undermine Immigrant & Constitutional Rights
In two separate rulings this month, the Supreme Court and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) have stripped away protections that for decades shielded communities from racial profiling and indefinite detention. These decisions endanger immigrant families, ...
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NNIRR Condemns the Passage of the Budget Reconciliation Bill and Its Attack on Immigrants and Working Families
The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) strongly condemns today’s passage of H.R. 1—the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill”—a sweeping budget reconciliation package that delivers unprecedented harm to immigrant communities, working families, and low-income people ...
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ICE raids in San Diego foreshadowed the roundups, protests now spreading across California
Days before President Donald Trump unleashed federal immigration agents to raid sites spanning from California’s biggest cities to its agricultural heartland, sparking protests in L.A. and elsewhere, San Diego’s quaint South Park neighborhood was targeted. Two ...
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Federal Immigration Raids in Los Angeles
NNIRR Statement: Federal Immigration Raids and Militarized Crackdown in Los Angeles Threaten Human Rights, Civil Liberties, and Democratic Freedoms The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) has grave concerns about aggressive federal immigration raids ...
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Holding the U.S. Accountable: Enforced Disappearances
As venues for civic engagement and political accountability have narrowed in the U.S, NNIRR joined 26 other U.S. based organizations to prepare a joint submission to the United Nations special procedures regarding the arbitrary detention and ...
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100 Days of Executive Orders on Immigration and Border Control
Tracking 100 Days of Executive Orders on Immigration and Border Control On his first day back in office, Donald Trump issued a wave of executive orders to reinstate and expand harmful policies targeting immigrants. Since then, ...
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Voices from the Borderlands
For years, NNIRR has used international human rights standards to remind governments that crossing a border without documentation or overstaying a permit does not constitute a criminal offense. Though irregular entry and stay may have once ...
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NNIRR Mourns the Passing of Congressman Raúl Grijalva
NNIRR Mourns the Passing of Congressman Raúl Grijalva: A Champion for Immigrant Rights, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Environmental Justice The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) mourns the passing of Congressman Raúl Grijalva, who died ...
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ICE Reports More than 46,000 Detainees; Highest Number Since October 2019
According to their most recent update, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) currently detains 46,269 people as of March 9, 2025, the highest number of detainees since October 2019, when ICE detained 49,419 individuals. But this is ...
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