Dear Readers,
Immigrants and their families—regardless of status—deserve to be treated with humanity. The recent ICE raids in Los Angeles do the exact opposite: they risk public safety, terrorize families, and undermine the rule of law.
Let us be crystal clear: ChangeLawyers stands firmly with immigrants, and will continue to fund immigrant justice work.
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California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice (Statewide)
Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (National)
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights (Bay Area)
AROC (Bay Area)
OC Rapid Response Network (Orange County)
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Stay safe and united,
California ChangeLawyers
Activists warn Bay Area could be next
Stay Vigilant
Sean McMahon, a lawyer at California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, warns Bay Area communities after witnessing four people arrested outside a courtroom in Concord.
I’m an immigration lawyer, and I can no longer tell my clients this is a nation of laws
Speaking Of...
Paul Zoltan is an immigration lawyer based in Dallas, and in his powerful essay, he argues that ICE courthouse arrests violate due process.
“Such trickery is beneath this great nation, especially in its treatment of those who dutifully attend their appointment to see a judge. A “government of laws, not of men” does not penalize the pursuit of justice or an appeal to mercy.”
