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