Organizations

🗽 Immigrant Defense Network 

Located in Minnesota - https://immigrantdefensenetwork.org/

"Established in 2025, the Immigrant Defense Network (IDN) is a network of over 90 immigrant, labor, legal, faith, and community organizations dedicated to protecting and advancing the constitutional rights of immigrant communities across Minnesota. In the face of ongoing and escalating threats to immigrant rights, IDN delivers trusted information, referrals to legal support, and coordinated educational activities. Immigrants are the backbone of Minnesota’s economy, cultural richness, and civic life. We all deserve to live with dignity and without fear."

 

đź—˝ Immigrant Defense Project

Located in New York - https://immigrantdefenseproject.org/

"The Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) was founded almost 30 years ago to combat an emerging human rights crisis: the targeting of immigrants for mass imprisonment and deportation.

As this crisis has continued to escalate, IDP has remained steadfast in fighting for fairness and justice for all immigrants caught at the intersection of the racially biased U.S. criminal and immigration systems. 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."

 

đź—˝The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights

Located in California - https://www.chirla.org/

"CHIRLA’s mission is to achieve a just society, fully inclusive of immigrants.

CHIRLA was founded in 1986 to advance the human and civil rights of immigrants and refugees. CHIRLA became a place for organizations and people who support human rights to work together for policies that advance justice and full inclusion for all immigrants.

CHIRLA’s first director was Father Luis Olivares, the pastor at Our Lady Queen of Angels Church. As a leading voice of the Sanctuary movement, Olivares used his church to protect refugees fleeing human rights abuses in Central America in the 1980s.

CHIRLA has since become one of the largest and most effective advocates for immigrant rights, organizing, educating and defending immigrants and refugees in the streets, in the courts, and in the halls of power.

At CHIRLA, civic-minded immigrant families work for a world where they are free to move, participate in democracy, and enjoy human rights. CHIRLA relies on the love and vision of our community to organize and build power among people, institutions, and organizations to change public opinion and craft progressive policies that promote human, civil and labor rights for everyone."

 

đź—˝Immigration Law & Justice Network

Works with organizations in 16 states including California, Florida, Hawai'i, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New York, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Washington, DC - https://www.iljnetwork.org/

"ILJ Network supports 16 locally operated sites that collectively serve nearly 7,000 low-income immigrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers each year. 

We provide strategic support to immigration attorneys, legal and other staff members, and boards of directors to strengthen local services and maximize our collective efforts. We also oversee the expansion of the network to welcome new sites in areas of high need."

 

đź—˝Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network

Located in Colorado - https://www.rmian.org/

"RMIAN is a nonprofit organization that serves low-income adults and children in immigration proceedings. RMIAN promotes knowledge of legal rights, provides effective representation to ensure due process, works to improve detention conditions, and promotes a more humane immigration system, including alternatives to detention."