National Organizations


 

Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project

Legal Support, Community Building

Works to prevent deportations, foster connection and community among refugees, asylum seekers, and the formerly detained, and provide legal response teams for those in crisis.

Critical Resistance

Community Building

CR seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people keep us safe.

Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Services

Housing, Medical Care

Offers shelter, medical care, and counseling for immigrant children.

 

National Domestic Workers Alliance

Community Building

Organizing to improve the living and working conditions of domestic workers, change the racism and sexism that devalues their labor, and build a movement of migrant workers to fight the labor displacement and exploitation created by globalization.

Tahirih Justice Center

Legal Service

Provides free legal and social services to immigrant women and girls fleeing gender-based violence.

Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights

Social Services

Trains and organizes child advocates to visit immigrant children in detention centers and accompany them to immigration proceedings. Currently raising funds for advocate training on family separation cases.

 

Regional Organizations


 

Aliento 

Phoenix, AZ  |  Community Building

Undocumented and youth-led community organization fighting against the inequalities of lacking an immigration status.

American Gateways

Texas  |  Legal Services, Community Building

Provides legal services and representation to detained parents. 

Austin Bar Association Civils Right and Immigration Section

Austin, TX  |  Legal Services

Training attorneys for pro bono work to handle credible fear interviews for asylum seekers.

 

Black LGBTQ Migrant Project (BLMP)

Oakland and Washington DC  |  Community Building

Offers leadership development and community organizing to address the targeting of Black LGBTQIA+ migrants by criminal law and immigration enforcement systems. 

Border Network for Human Rights

Texas  |  Community Building

Facilitate the education, organizing, and participation of marginalized border communities to defend and promote human and civil rights.

Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande

Texas  |  Social Services, Housing

Provides housing and shelter for immigrants recently released from ICE/CBP custody.

 

Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services

El Paso, TX  |  Legal Services

Legal services for unaccompanied children in West Texas. 

Fronterizo Fianza Fund

West Texas/New Mexico  |  Bond Funds

A bond fund for those currently in detention in the El Paso-Ciudad Juarez area. 

Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Illinois  |  Community Building

Education and mobilization campaigns, with a family support network and hotline that connects families with immediate information and referrals to legal, ministry, and social services. 

 

Immigrant Youth Coalition

California  |  Community Building

Working to mobilize youth, families, and incarcerated people to end the criminalization of immigrants and people of color. 

Juntos

Philadelphia  |  Community Building

Combines leadership development, community organizing, and focused collaborations with other community-based and advocacy organizations to build the power of community members.

Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center

El Paso, TX  |  Legal Services

Legal services and representation to immigrants.

 

Mariposas Sin Fronteras

Tucson, AZ  |  Community Building, Bond Support

A group dedicated to end the systemic violences and abuse of LGBTQ people held in prison and immigration detention, while participating in visits, letters, housing upon release, and bond support.

Organized Communities Against Deportation

Chicago  |  Community Building

Works to fight against harmful deportation enforcement, raids, and deportations, and to provide community members with the knowledge and resources to defend themselves and organize their communities.

RAICES (Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services)

Texas  |  Legal Services

Provides free and low-cost legal services to immigrant children, families, and refugees in Texas. Currently focused on a fund to reunite children separated from their parents by ICE. 

 

South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation

South Texas  |  Legal Support

Free legal services for asylum seekers currently in detention. 

Trans Queer Pueblo

Phoenix, AZ  |  Community Building

LGBTQ+ Migrant community creating support networks and education programs working towards justice for all people. 

 

List compiled by Eddie Gamboa