ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project
The ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project is dedicated to expanding and enforcing the civil liberties and civil rights of immigrants and to combating public and private discrimination against them.
Immigration Justice
Al Otro Lado
Al Otro Lado provides legal and humanitarian support to migrants on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Alessandra Stevens
Alessandra Stevens is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow combatting the labor abuse to deportation pipeline with Sur Legal Collaborative.
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Alexis Bay
Alexis Bay is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Texas Civil Rights Project using community lawyering to address issues of mistreatment of immigrants in detention.
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Amy Tamayo
Amy Tamayo is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Centro de Los Derechos del Migrante working with migrant worker women to challenge discrimination and harassment women face in U.S. employment.
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) Seeking 2020 Summer Legal Interns
Justice Catalyst Partner ASAP is accepting applications for Summer 2020 legal internships.
ASAP-IRAP Announce New Litigation Initiative on Behalf of Migrants
The Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) and the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), with the help of Justice Catalyst, are forming a partnership to bring litigation on behalf of asylum seekers and other forced migrants.
Asylum Seekers Advocacy Project
ASAP works alongside our members — thousands of asylum seekers — to make this vision a reality. Its model has three components: community support, emergency legal aid, and nationwide systemic reform.
Justice Catalyst Fellow Alexis Bay Denounces Border Wall at RGV Rally
Alexis Bay, a ’20-’21 Justice Catalyst Fellow, spoke at a rally in San Juan, Texas condemning former President Donald Trump’s visit to the Rio Grande Valley.
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Carolyn O'Connor
Carolyn O'Connor is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Texas Civil Rights Project supporting communities impacted by the border wall and representing asylum seekers.
Centro de Los Derechos del Migrante
Centro de los Derechos del Migrante protects Mexico-based migrants' rights between their home communities in Mexico and their workplaces in the U.S.
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Chelsea Gabriela Tejada
Chelsea Gabriela Tejada is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project working to protect the rights of noncitizen immigrants in government custody.
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Chris Opila
Chris Opila is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow challenging USCIS resettlement adjudication policies with the International Refugee Assistance Project.
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Christopher Owens
Christopher Owens is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Al Otro Lado's Border Rights Project using strategic litigation to secure the individual right to apply for asylum.
Ginger Cline, ’20-’21 Justice Catalyst Fellow, Speaks out Against Border Patrol Sending Asylum Seeker Back to Mexico While in Labor
Ginger Cline, a ’20-’21 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Al Otro Lado, a non-profit that provides legal and humanitarian support for asylum seekers, including the couple, spoke with CB8News about the couple’s experience.
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David Chen
David Chen is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the ACLU Immigrants Rights Project designing and executing a nationwide strategy to enforce state law limitations on the authority of local law enforcement to detain immigrants in cooperation with ICE.
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Elizabeth Lewis
Elizabeth Lewis is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Beyond Legal Aid working with community-based organizations to support LGBTQI+ immigrants.
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Ginger Cline
Ginger Cline is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Al Otro Lado using impact litigation to defend the rights of asylum-seeking individuals.
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Hayden Rodarte
Hayden Rodarte is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights building a unique accountability model for addressing civil and human rights abuses in immigration detention at the border.
Immigrant Defense Project
IDP fights to end the current era of unprecedented mass criminalization, detention and deportation through a multipronged strategy including advocacy, litigation, legal advice and training, community defense, grassroots alliances, and strategic communications.
Immigrant Justice Corps
Immigrant Justice Corps places immigration lawyers and advocates with legal services and grassroots organizations.
Innovation Law Lab
Innovation Law Lab harnesses the power of technology, law, and activism to end mass incarceration in secret jails.
International Refugee Assistance Project
The International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) organizes law students and lawyers to develop and enforce a set of legal and human rights for refugees and displaced persons.
IRAP filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
IRAP filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
JC Fellow Alessandra Stevens and Sur Legal Collaborative, along with NILC win victory toward protecting immigrant workers
JC Fellow Alessandra Stevens and Sur Legal Collaborative, along with NILC win victory toward protecting immigrant workers.
JC Fellow Lee Ann Felder-Heim Supports Hunger Strikers in Central Valley Immigration Detention Facilities Who Filed Class Action Lawsuit Against ICE, GEO Group for Illegal Retaliation
JC Fellow Lee Ann Felder-Heim Supports Hunger Strikers in Central Valley Immigration Detention Facilities Who Filed Class Action Lawsuit Against ICE, GEO Group for Illegal Retaliation.
Multiple Justice Catalyst Fellows File Lawsuit Protesting Border Patrol Treatment of Haitian Migrants
Justice Catalyst Fellows Trillium Chang ’21-’22, Lauren Michel Wilfong ‘21-’22, and Tess Hellgren ‘19-’20, alongside team members, filed a class action lawsuit early December on behalf of Haitian migrants against the government for alleged inhumane treatment.
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John Giammatteo
John Giammatteo is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Lutheran Social Services of New York's Immigration Legal Program coordinating the Second Circuit Asylum Monitoring Project.
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Joseph Meyers
Joseph Meyers is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the National Lawyers Guild's National Immigration Project challenging unconstitutional police practices at the border.
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Joseph Niver
Joseph Niver is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow working to address systemic employment violations in the logistics industry with Make the Road New Jersey.
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Julie Pittman
Julie Pittman is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Centro de Los Derechos del Migrante working with low-wage migrant workers to hold their employers accountable.
Justice Action Center
Justice Action Center is a new nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting for greater justice for immigrant communities by combining litigation and storytelling.
Justice in Motion
Justice in Motion defends the rights of migrants at the U.S. border.
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Kathleen Rivas
Kathleen Rivas is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Public Counsel's Immigrants' Rights Project combatting notario fraud in Los Angeles' immigrant community.
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Kelly Miller
Kellly Miller is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Advancing Justice providing legal services to detained immigrants and developing new strategies to serve their non-legal needs.
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Kyle Barron
Kyle Barron is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Brooklyn Defender Services working for the immediate release of detained noncitizens facing deportation and developing rapid response models.
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Lauren Michel Wilfong
Lauren Michel Wilfong is a 2021-2022 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Justice Action Center working with detained people to challenge the legality of their immigration detention by fostering a rapid response habeas network, and creating a digital hub to support habeas
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Lee Ann Felder-Heim
Lee Ann Felder Heim is a 2021-2022 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area working to stop private, for-profit prison corporations from harming detained immigrants in their custody, hold them accountable
Make the Road New Jersey
Make the Road New Jersey builds the power of immigrant and working class communities to achieve dignity and respect.
Joseph Meyers, ’20-’21 Justice Catalyst Fellow, Speaks Out Against Cuban Detention on RT Español
Joseph Meyers, a ’20-‘21 Justice Catalyst Fellow, denounced the treatment of Cuban migrants in detention centers on RT Español on March 16.
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Ming Tanigawa-Lau
Ming Tanigawa-Lau is a 2021-2022 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Asylum Seekers Advocacy Project building the first asylum-seeker-led systemic reform program in the United States.
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Molly Linhorst
Molly Linhorst is a 2019-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at ACLU of New Jersey challenging egregious immigration conditions at county-run facilities.
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Mudassar Toppa
Mudassar Toppa is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility (CLEAR) Project providing legal representation to U.S. Muslims and other constituencies targeted by government agencies under the guise of "national security" and "counterterrorism."
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Mustafa (Isaac) Filat
Mustafa Isaac Filat is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow protecting the data privacy of California's immigrant communities with Public Counsel.
National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers' Guild
The National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild (NIPNLG) is a national non-profit organization that provides technical assistance and support to community-based immigrant organizations, legal practitioners, and all advocates seeking and working to advance the rights of noncitizens.
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Patrick Baker
Patrick Baker is a 2018-2019 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Immigrant Defense Project challenging abusive immigration enforcement practices in New York state.
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Priya Sreenivasan
Priya Sreenivasan is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow with Project South using law and advocacy to challenge immigrant incarceration.
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Rosa Lee Bichell
Rosa Lee Bichell is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Disability Rights Advocates identifying and supporting people with disabilities in immigration detention.
Santa Fe Dreamers Project
Santa Fe Dreamers Project provides free legal services to immigrants to promote economic empowerment, community development, family unity, and liberation from detention.
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Stacy Ham
Stacy Ham is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Legal Aid Justice Center seeking a remedy through impact litigation for immigrant children who were recently released from detention facilities.
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Stephanie Alvarez-Jones
Stephanie Alvarez-Jones is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid documenting and challenging conditions for immigrant mothers and children while coordinating a rapid-response team against abrupt immigration policy changes.
Sur Legal Collaborative
Sur Legal Collaborative seeks to democratize legal knowledge so that immigrant and working-class communities are empowered with the resources necessary to advocate for their rights and continue to lead us in the struggle for a more just society.
Migrant Workers, Centro de Los Derechos del Migrante, and ’20-’21 Justice Catalyst Fellow Amy Tamayo File First-Ever Labor Complaint under New U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement
Working with Centro de Los Derechos del Migrante and other partner organizations, ’20-’21 Justice Catalyst Fellow Amy Tamayo filed the first-ever labor complaint under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on behalf of migrant worker women on temporary labor migration programs.
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Tess Hellgren
Tess Hellgren is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Innovation Law Lab using impact litigation and legal resources to enhance innovative models of massive collaborative representation in immigration court.
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Trillium Chang
Trillium Chang is a 2021-2022 Justice Catalyst Fellow with Innovation Law Lab working to ensure that detained asylum seekers in the Deep South have legal representation by leveraging data analysis to inform efforts and by activating pro bono counsel nationwide.
After NYCLU and ACLU-NJ with Catalyst Fellow Liza Weisberg Filed Suit, Court Orders Release of Father Arrested at Routine Immigration Interview
After the NYCLU and ACLU of NJ, with Justice Catalyst Fellow Liza Weisberg, filed suit, a federal judge today ordered the release of Antonio Martinez, a Queens, New York resident and father of two detained during a routine immigration interview
Yale Law Announces Justice Catalyst—Robert M. Cover Fellowship in the Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic
YLS announces Justice Catalyst—Robert M. Cover Fellowship in the Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic.