Learn more about our holistic approach to legal services, which includes social services tailored to meet basic needs and allow clients to participate in their own defence. IDP designs training courses for a wide range of lawyers. Since the landmark decision Padilla v. Kentucky, IDP has focused on training public defenders, but we also customize training for immigration attorneys, attorneys of record, family court practitioners, BIA-accredited representatives, judges, prosecutors, and community lawyers. Maura can finally live in dignity thanks to ImmDef`s legal support. The Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef) is a next-generation social justice law firm that defends our immigrant communities against the injustices of the immigration system. The NNLP develops innovative strategies to respond to illegal immigration enforcement, government encroachments and efforts to undermine immigrant rights. Join! Read our latest alerts here. Learn how ImmDef provides access to legal advice and education at all stages of the immigration system, including our cross-border initiative.
The AILA Mesa Verde Pro Bono project was created by Centro Legal de la Raza and Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto to coordinate pro bono legal representation for asylum seekers in immigration detention under the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Immigration Court. JDC is the lead coordinator for business orientation and placement for the volunteer consultant project. JDC also provides ongoing mentorship to pro bono lawyers in partnership with the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies and the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, as well as additional legal assistance to unrepresented asylum seekers. Since its inception, IDP has been committed to legal education at the intersection of criminal and immigration law. Although IDPs cannot provide direct representation in immigration deportation proceedings, we can provide individual advice. If you are an immigrant or the parent of an immigrant in need, please leave a voicemail message at the Displaced Persons Helpline and someone will call you back within two business days. Please be prepared to provide information about immigration, criminal court and family court history. Lawyers of the Day (AOD) are experienced immigration attorneys who appear before the San Francisco Immigration Court to assist unrepresented defendants in their initial deportation proceedings. AODs defend defendants before the immigration judge on detained, undetained and juvenile waybills. They provide one-on-one advice, legal advice, and referrals to connect respondents with additional support, including full remote defense. The San Francisco Immigrant Legal Defense Collaborative (SFILDC) is a coalition of 15 San Francisco organizations that provide free, high-quality, and culturally competent legal services to adults, children, and families in deportation proceedings. JDC is the legal lead of SFILDC, providing coordination, legal training, technical support and advocacy support to member agencies.
As part of the AOD program, JDC provides specialized training and interpretation services to immigration attorneys interested in serving as DOAs and providing relocation defense services to Santa Clara County residents. JDC has also developed special admission and referral procedures for Santa Clara County residents, especially those with criminal convictions who cannot challenge them for county-funded services. The IDP Padilla Help Center provides FREE legal advice to New York-appointed criminal and family attorneys. IDPs offer the only toll-free helpline for offenders in the country. We provide criminal immigration analysis for defense attorneys, immigration advocates, and immigrants and their dependents. IDP provides expert legal advice on the immigration consequences of contact with criminal and family courts. We support immigrants and their dependents, criminal defence lawyers, family court practitioners and immigrant lawyers through a range of services, including the IDP Helpline and the newly created Padilla Support Centre. Due to the high demand for our services from impoverished immigrants and designated lawyers, we are currently unable to advise individual private lawyers. Your donation helps us expand and protect the rights of all immigrants. The National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild (NIPNLG) is a national organization of lawyers, law students, legal workers, lawyers, and prison guards who work to defend and expand the rights of all non-citizens in the United States, regardless of immigration status. We pursue all forms of legal representation on behalf of immigrants.
We also provide technical assistance, training and support to lawyers, community immigrant organizations and advocates who work to promote the rights of non-citizens. The Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) promotes fundamental fairness for immigrants who have been charged or convicted of crimes. We seek to minimize the harsh and disproportionate consequences of contact with the immigration criminal justice system by (1) working to change unfair deportation laws and policies, and 2) educating and advising immigrants, their defense attorneys, and other attorneys. This episode focuses on DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an immigration program introduced by the Obama-Biden administration in 2012 and made possible by the advocacy of undocumented youth itself. We have had the DACA program for almost nine years and the program has now been threatened with termination several times, particularly under the Trump administration. We have seen several lawsuits challenging efforts to end the program, and we are very pleased to have Araceli as a guest today as she and her organization, the National Immigration Law Center, or NILC, have been fighting for many years to protect DACA and the rights of all immigrants. In this episode, she shares with us her litigation and advocacy efforts and experiences to protect the DACA program. Districts served: Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Oneida, Otsego, Schoharie Episode 2 – The Trajectory, Advocacy Efforts and Future of DACA – with Araceli Martínez-Olguín Monday, November 14, 2022 – 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET The National Immigration Bill calls on President Biden to include all immigrants in marijuana pardons (October 6, 2022) Counties served: Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Delaware, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins Visit us on the 16th. November for a private screening of the film, a discussion and a celebration! We believe that all immigrants have the right to a free lawyer In this episode of Conversations that Matter, we talk to Diana from the State of Fresno and Carlie from the State of San Francisco about sharing their experiences as students as “dreamers”, their experiences with LTD services, and the impact of dream centers from their CSU perspective on their academic journey.
Stay informed about our recent efforts to defend due process and asylum. Subscribe to our Defender newsletter below. Supervised counties: Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren, Washington Supervised counties: Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, Wyoming, Yates IDP Calls on Biden to Extend Marijuana Pardon Protection to Immigrants to Be Sued and Serve in Immigration-Related District Court Cases (September 14, 2022) Illegally detained as a juvenile in an adult detention center, Jose`s case highlights the underlying systemic injustices within the U.S. immigration justice system. Episode 1 – The first year of the CSU Immigration Legal Services project For more information, visit our Community Advocacy page. In this episode of Conversations that Matter, we`re joined by Gaby Encinas, coordinator of the Dream Success Center at Fresno State and Luis De Paz Fernandez, AB 540 Dream Coordinator at the Dream Resource Center in San Francisco. In this episode, they discuss their role at each of the sites and what each of their dream centers is doing to ensure their students` success. Our flawed immigration justice system is designed to undermine asylum and immigration channels. Welcome to Conversations that Matter with Immigrant Legal Defense and Fresno State`s Dream Success Center. In today`s episode, we`ll talk to LTD lawyers Barbara Pinto and Eleni Wolfe-Roubatis about the first year of the UHC Immigration Legal Services project.