Immigration Justice Campaign is an initiative of American Immigration Council, American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Debbie Cooper is an attorney who has been volunteering with the Immigration Justice Campaign for over two years. Her interest in asylum work originated from her close relationship with her grandmother, who came to the United States as a refugee...
When an asylum seeker goes before a judge in immigration court to make their case for asylum, they are not guaranteed legal representation. All too often, asylum seekers must represent themselves before the judge. When that happens, it’s the judge’s...
The Immigration Justice Campaign is pleased to honor Juliana Madaki as Volunteer of the Year. Juliana’s name might be familiar to those of you who have been following our work for a while. She started volunteering with the Justice Campaign in 2019...
Legal help for immigration issues is not guaranteed or easy to find. And language barriers can make a challenging process impossibly frustrating. Retired nonprofit executive Stephan Russo is a volunteer interpreter for the Immigration Justice Campaign’s program for people who...
Volunteers join the Immigration Justice Campaign for lots of reasons – to give time to a cause they care about, to learn more about immigration law, to do meaningful work in retirement, and many more. No matter what brings them...
My parents came to the United States from Colombia and are therefore native Spanish speakers. My mother was a contract interpreter in the United States immigration courts for nearly twenty years. Sometimes, the immigration judges would permit her to bring...
I have been involved with immigration policy for quite some time, but until recently never direct representation. My first experience with immigration started with the Human Rights and Immigration Clinics at the University of Miami School of Law. We worked...
My first time inside an immigration detention facility was when my friend Marilyn McGinnis asked me to volunteer for a weekend at El Refugio, a nonprofit in Lumpkin, GA that serves detainees and their families at Stewart Detention Center. Stewart...
I am a lawyer by education, but a policy wonk by profession. It had been over 8 years since I practiced law as a Rule 16 student attorney in law school and 7 years since I clerked for an appellate...