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Dear John,
Access to counsel is not guaranteed for people in immigration detention. In fact, around 80% of people in detention don’t have a lawyer.
Through the Council’s Immigration Justice Campaign, we empower immigrants to pursue their legal rights by mobilizing volunteer attorneys to work alongside people in detention. Can you donate to support our work in 2023?
Here are a few things we celebrated this year:
- After three years of effort, a man working with an Immigration Justice Campaign volunteer finally won paperwork to bring his family to the United States as asylum seekers.
- A man’s scheduled day of deportation became the day he won release to stay with his brother in the United States.
- A volunteer discovered that ICE was illegally holding a U.S. citizen in immigration detention, and the person was released.
- Two families who had been pursuing their immigration cases for more than 20 years finally won asylum.
- A volunteer heard at the last minute that his client was about to be deported, so he scrambled to submit a stay motion at 2 a.m. on a Sunday. The motion was granted just in time, and the man was taken off the plane that had been set to fly him out of the country. He later won asylum.
Every person pursuing an immigration case deserves due process and access to counsel. If you can, please donate to support our work.
Best wishes,
Alex Miller
Director, Immigration Justice Campaign
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