An Assault on Due Process: Frontline Legal Service Providers Sound the Alarm as the Collapse of Legal Representation for Thousands of Unaccompanied Children Nears
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, July 29, 2026 Media Contactspress@unitedwedream.org NATIONAL– Today, in a press briefing hosted by the Defending Our Neighbors Fund, frontline legal service providers across the country warned that legal representation for thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children is at risk of total collapse as the federal contract that funds immigrant children’s access to lawyers […]
Defending Our Neighbors Fund Leader Greisa Martínez Rosas Announced to TIME100 Most Influential People Shaping Philanthropy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, May 14, 2026 Media Contactspress@unitedwedream.org Washington, D.C. — Today, TIME named Greisa Martínez Rosas, Executive Director of United We Dream and one of the leaders behind the development and creation of the Defending Our Neighbors Fund, to its second-annual 2026 TIME100 Philanthropy list. The list recognizes leaders across the country who are shaping […]
How to help immigrant communities in Minneapolis and beyond: Support the Defending Our Neighbors Fund
By Greisa Martinez-Rosas The horrors we’ve seen unfold in Minneapolis are a predictable escalation of an administration that has encouraged reckless, militarized immigration enforcement with little accountability or regard for due process. As enforcement becomes more extreme, access to legal help is disappearing. In immigration court, there is no guaranteed right to a lawyer. Parents […]
United We Dream, ACLU, and Partners Launch Historic $30 Million Dollar Fund to Scale Up Access to Lawyers for Families Fighting Wrongful Detention, Deportation
United We Dream (UWD), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and Abundant Futures Fund (AFF), have joined forces to launch theDefending Our Neighbors Fund: a bold new initiative that will scale up crucial financial support to legal organizations all across the country. Housed within AFF, the Defending Our Neighbors Fund will help ensure immigrant families facing the threat of separation and wrongful detention and deportations have access to lawyers…
