Team — This Giving Tuesday, every dollar you give to the Defending Our Neighbors Fund will be matched dollar-for-dollar. Please, rush a donation to double your impact and help immigrant families access life-saving legal support.
Across the country, everyday people are meeting authoritarian threats with powerful solidarity. As masked immigration officers continue to target our communities, neighbors are bravely stepping up to protect each other.
Still, our friends and neighbors are being arrested without due process, and families are being torn apart.
The Defending Our Neighbors Fund was created to ensure that immigrant families have fair access to lawyers and are not facing a complex and punishing immigration system on their own.
Without legal representation, a family’s chances of staying together collapse. Data shows that, in courts with the highest deportation rates, over 90% of cases involving people in detention ended in removal orders. And over the past five years, 62% of immigrants without a lawyer were deported compared to 27% of those with legal aid.1
Legal support makes a profound difference in whether families can stay together, but due to the cost, it is increasingly out of reach. The Defending Our Neighbors Fund provides a lifeline for financial support to trusted legal organizations working in communities across the country.
Your donation right now goes twice as far in expanding access to legal assistance, keeping more families connected, and helping people navigate a complicated legal system with basic fairness and dignity. Please, double your impact today:
In this moment of division, we must all come together to defend our neighbors. This Giving Tuesday, your gift helps keep families together and ensures justice for our communities.
Thank you. 🧡
— Greisa, United We Dream
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“Where Can You Win in Immigration Court? The Impact of Lawyers, Detention, Geography, and Policy.” American Immigration Council. November 20, 2025.
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