Jerry Kickenson - Immigration-Resources

Jerry Kickenson

Current opportunities to volunteer for immigration justice in the region:

The Congregation Action Network (CAN) organizes congregations of all faiths in the Washington, DC metropolitan area in support of immigrants and immigrant justice. CAN also recruits volunteers to accompany immigrants to ICE and ISAP checkins for the DMV Accompaniment Network (DAN), and can connect volunteers to efforts canvassing immigrant neighborhoods to provide Know-Your-Rights information. Email contact@congregationactionnet.org to find out how you or your congregation can help.
CASA is looking for volunteers to help with legal services (attorneys), as well as helping with ESL, citizenship and job search workshops. Join the CASA Allies Network, a multi racial, multi generational network of allies in the struggle for immigrant justice, coordinated by CASA and CASA in Action.
The Amica Center for Immigrant Rights can use pro bono attorneys to help with cases, under the supervision of one of their immigration attorneys, as well as help with their hotline, translation and other needs.
Ayuda also uses pro bono attorneys to help with cases, and also can use volunteers to help with social services and administrative support.
Just Neighbors offers legal services and legal workshops for Know-Your-Rights, Maryland Standby Guardianship. Volunteer attorneys can help deliver these workshops, and anyone can help with translation, outreach, support at legal services clinics.
Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid directly supports migrants in many ways, including direct support as well as hotlines and rapid response to immigration enforcement activity.
Direct Support for Immigrants is a volunteer run group that helps immigrants, currently by printing, assembling and distributing Know-Your-Rights (KYR) packets in multiple languages.
Impact Silver Spring offers ESL and multiple community empowerment programs.
Identity provides services to youth (primarily Latino) in Montgomery County.

Immigration Justice Resources

Advocacy
- HIAS: lots of information on refugees and immigration advoacy and support.
- FWD.us: FWD.us is a bipartisan political organization that works to reform our harmful immigration and criminal justice systems.
- United We Dream: the largest immigrant youth-led community in the country. We create welcoming spaces for young people – regardless of immigration status – to support, engage, and empower them to make their voice heard and win!
- Interfaith Immigration Coalition: a partnership of over 50 national, faith-based organizations committed to enacting fair and humane immigration reform that reflects our mandate to welcome the stranger and treat all human beings with dignity and respect.
- CASA in Maryland: large immigrant organization in the mid-Atlantic region supporting immigrant families and ensuring that all individuals have the core supports necessary for full participation in society. CASA combines human services, community organizing, and advocacy.
- Kids In Need of Defense: Supporting migrant children by ensuring that no child appears in immigration court without high quality legal representation and advancing laws, policies, and practices that ensure children’s protection and uphold their right to due process and fundamental fairness.
- Undocublack Network: A network fighting to create space for currently and formerly undocumented Black immigrants to not only survive but thrive.
- Haitian Bridge Alliance: advocates for fair and humane immigration policies and provides migrants and immigrants with humanitarian, legal, and social services, with a particular focus on Black people, the Haitian community, women and girls, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and survivors of torture and other human rights abuses.
- NAKASEC - its mission is to organize Korean and Asian Americans to achieve social, racial and economic justice. They have a unique mobile app for Know Your Rights in many Asian languages: iPhone, Android.
- Tsuru for Solidarity - a nonviolent, direct action project of Japanese American social justice advocates and allies working to end detention sites and support directly impacted immigrant and refugee communities that are being targeted by racist, inhumane immigration policies.
- The Border Collaboration Network: associated with the Interfaith Welcome Coalition, offers monthly webinars on immigration and border issues.
- National Cathedral Sanctuary Ministry provides support and solidarity for our immigrant brothers and sisters who are being wrongfully profiled, and who risk detention, deportation, and family separation.
Explaining Immigration Law
- National Immigration Law Center: Established in 1979, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) is one of the leading organizations in the U.S. exclusively dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of immigrants with low income.
- American Immigration Council: explains the latest changes in immigration policy, with lots of excellent fact sheets on areas of immigration law and policy, understandable by non-lawyers.
- ACLU Immigrant Rights Project: News, reports, cases ACLU is working on.
- National Immigration Project: has many resources for both attorneys and advocates, explaining latest immigration policies as well as Know Your Rights, resources for non-profits. Also provide training.
- Ready to Stay - lots of information for immigrants, not as much for allies. Includes directory of legal help by zip code.
- Immigration Hub: lots of policy analysis and reports on latest developments.
- Lawfare - tracks all the many many legal actions due to administrative executive orders and policies.
Information and Training
- The Gilchrist Immigrant Resource Center in Montgomery County offers an extensive list of Immigration Resources in many areas: legal services, citizenship, know your rights, family preparedness, and public services.
- Families United DC Metro - lots of information on family preparedness, rights and obtaining legal support from DC area legal and social services organizations.
- The Immigrant Defense Project has scads of flyers, booklets, infographics on their Know Your Rights with ICE page. They also have an excellent ICE Raids Toolkit, as well as a Know Your Rights Train-the-Trainer workshop online.
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center: Know Your Rights Toolkit
- Montgomery County Legal Immigration Service Providers - directory of nonprofit providers (but note it is dated - 2017).
Newsletters
- Austin Kocher substack: Unlock the complexities of the U.S. immigration system with this regular newsletter. Get research-backed insights and expert analysis written for a broad audience.
- The Border Chronicle: Original Reporting from a Border Perspective
- Behind the Border: the public diary of an immigration law professor on the frontlines of America’s battle over immigration.
- Immigration Hub substack

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