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Fight To Protect Immigrants! - Resource & Organization Masterlist (6/20/18)
If you need help and/or want to help others trapped in the brutal US immigration system, let me help you get started! Regardless of your time and abilities, you can help at home or in person in countless ways big and small. Head to Informed Immigrant to find orgs near you working to support undocumented immigrants,
contact your reps to support the Keep Families Together Act, donate money/time/transportation to local/national/global groups, join protest actions, register voters, boost resources, cook dinners, watch kids, and simply provide emotional support to people!
I’ve gathered together some useful links and resources here - please help me spread ‘em around, and add any of your own links and info too.
Calling Scripts and Guides:
Legislative Resources:
Places to Join and Donate to:
- Use the Informed Immigrant to find groups near you, find legal aid, and join the fight!
- Join a local protest at FamiliesBelong.org. Donate here.
- Pueblos Sin Fronteras provides humanitarian aid to migrants and refugees. Donate here.
- Al Otro Lado
is a bi-national, direct legal services organization serving
indigent deportees, migrants, and refugees in Tijuana, Mexico. Donate here.
- The Florence Project
provides free legal services to adults and unaccompanied children in immigration custody in Arizona. Donate here.
- Border
Angels serves San Diego County’s immigrant population through various
migrant outreach programs such as Day Laborer outreach, a free legal
assistance program, and more. Donate here.
- RAICES provides free and low-cost legal services to underserved immigrant children, families, and refugees in Texas. Donate here.
- Act Blue has an aggregated link, allowing you to donate to multiple organizations who are doing work to support those at the border.
- The Immigrant Children’s Assistance Project a project of the American Bar Association. They currently help unaccompanied children in South Texas w/ knowing their rights. Donate here.
- United We Dream is the largest immigrant-youth led group in the USA, and their site provides news, event info, as well as guides and toolkits for fighting the system, protecting LGBTQ immigrants, and taking care of your mental health. Donate here.
- The Black Alliance for Just Immigration “educates
and engages African American and black immigrant communities to organize
and advocate for racial, social, and economic justice.” Donate here.
- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
is one of the largest civil rights and advocacy organizations dedicated
to fighting against discrimination against Muslims. Click here to donate to the national organization or a specific campaign, or click here to find your local CAIR chapter (which needs your support as much or more than the national group).
- CUNY CLEAR provides representation and rights training to Muslim communities targeted by law enforcement. More information is available here.
- Families for Freedom
fights on behalf of families facing deportation. “We are immigrant
prisoners (detainees), former immigrant prisoners, their loved ones, or
individuals at risk of deportation.” Donate here.
- The Immigrant Defense Project uses impact
litigation, advocacy, and public education to fight to stop mass
deportations and an unjust immigration system. Donate here.
- The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) is
a national resource center that helps train immigration lawyers and
advocates, as well as communities to advocate for the rights of
immigrants. They also participate in local, state and federal advocacy
work. Donate here.
- The International Rescue Committee,
which was founded at Albert Einstein’s request, works to provide aid
and support to people affected by humanitarian crises. You can donate
specifically to support U.S. refugee resettlement programs in response
to Trump’s Muslim Ban here, and see other ways to get involved (by volunteering or calling your representative) here.
- The International Refugee Assistance Project works
to organize lawyers and law students to fight for the human and legal
rights of refugees through legal aid and policy advocacy. For legal help
click here, and to donate click here.
- Make the Road New York uses
policy advocacy, organizing, education, and survival services
(including workforce training and adult education) to improve the lives
of immigrants—in particular Latino and working class communities—in New
York City. Donate here, and learn more ways to get involved here.
- Mariposas Sin Fronteras works with LGBTQ people detained in immigration facilities and works to
get vulnerable detainees out on bond. Learn how to donate here.
- MPower Change is, in the words of Women in Islam
founder Aisha al-Adawiya “digital Muslim-led political talking drum.”
In other words, it’s a nonprofit that does grassroots organizing,
campaigning, and storytelling to empower Muslim communities throughout
the United States. Notably, Women’s March organizer and activist Linda
Sarsour is one of its heads. Donate here.
- National Immigration Law Center works for the rights of low-income immigrants through impact
legislation, policy analysis and advocacy, communications, and education
programs. To donate, click here.
- Northwest Immigrant Rights Project offers legal services directly to immigrants with its network of 350 pro-bono attorneys. Donate here.
Remember, one person alone can’t do everything, so please take care of yourself and each other - but if we all do a little, we can make a difference together!
Captions for the call scripts under the cut as well as a list of pro-bono legal aid and therapist volunteers organized by Joanna Rothkopf.
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