No One Is Illegal
Support immigrant and refugee communities through legal aid, know-your-rights education, sanctuary work, and civic integration.
Why this portfolio works
Democracy is strongest when it includes everyone who calls a place home. Yet immigrant and refugee communities often face aggressive enforcement, uncertain legal status, language barriers, workplace exploitation, and fear that keeps people away from the civic and public services they need. This portfolio backs organizations that provide legal representation, run know-your-rights trainings, support sanctuary and rapid-response networks, help families stay together, and build civic participation among immigrant communities. These groups affirm a simple truth: no one is illegal in the place they live, work, and raise their children.
Defending immigrant communities takes more than one kind of organization. This portfolio combines direct legal representation, detention defense, youth-led advocacy, statewide community organizing, and family accompaniment — so organizations working at different points in the system reinforce one another.
Organizations in this portfolio
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Casa de Paz
Role in the portfolio: Accompanies families through detention and release, meeting the human needs legal services can't cover.
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United We Dream
Role in the portfolio: Gives immigrant youth their own organizing power and voice in national policy fights.
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National Immigrant Justice Center
Role in the portfolio: Carries the portfolio's impact litigation and national policy advocacy alongside direct representation.
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CHIRLA - The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
Role in the portfolio: Provides large-scale statewide organizing and citizenship navigation in the country's largest immigrant community.
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The Florence Project
Role in the portfolio: Defends due process for detained people in Arizona who would otherwise face deportation without counsel.
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Portfolio composition
This portfolio brings together organizations playing different but complementary roles. Your donation is divided equally among the organizations; the categories below show the mix of strategies represented in the portfolio.
- Legal defense & representation
- Grassroots organizing & policy
- Youth & community advocacy
- Family support & accompaniment