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…
