IJC featured in TIME magazine

Earlier this month, Immigrant Justice Corps was featured in an important TIME magazine story published about the administration’s immigration and detention enforcement policies: “Inside Donald Trump’s Mass-Deportation Operation”.

The reporter spoke with IJC CEO Jojo Annobil about the need to provide legal counsel to immigrant children. The reporter also chatted on background with an IJC Fellow in our Unaccompanied Children Program.  

“Trump is targeting younger children too. His attorneys have argued in federal court that he should be allowed to ignore the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of citizenship for those born in the U.S. and terminate the rights of children born to parents who were in the country illegally. The President has cut federal funding to social-service nonprofits that offer legal representation to people facing deportation to ensure their cases are fairly decided. “The very idea of deporting a child without a lawyer should be unthinkable in America,” says Jojo Annobil, the CEO of the Immigrant Justice Corps.”