Immigrant Justice
Every person, regardless of citizenship status, should be able to thrive and feel safe in our communities. Our immigrant justice work focuses on ending the pipeline from jails/prisons to ICE custody and working to dismantle our carceral system in order to achieve freedom for all people.
Here are some of the ways we’re fighting for freedom:
- Providing orientation, support, and resources to community members who have a loved one in immigration detention.
- Advocate for the release of community members from detention centers and jails through public pressure, legal support and challenging local policies that support police-ICE collusion.
- Training community members to “Know Your Rights” with ICE and police.
- Participating in a Rapid Response Coalition of organizers and volunteers who mobilize to respond to reports of ICE activity in our community.
- Training and coordinating a group of volunteer witnesses to accompany community members to court hearings, probation appointments, and check-ins with immigration authorities.
- Supporting the Shut Down Etowah Campaign and other efforts to reduce and ultimately end immigrant detention and mass incarceration.
- In 2020 we hosted our first ever multi-week training for formerly detained and incarcerated individuals with the goal of channeling participants into the movement to abolish detention centers and prisons in Alabama and across the country.