The Immigration Justice Campaign
Urgent Call: Interpreters Needed to Serve Over 400 New Detainees
Posted February 19, 2019
This month, the government abruptly sent hundreds of asylum seekers, including individuals who traveled with the caravan, to the Denver Contract Detention Facility. The facility, located near Denver, is now filled to capacity, and most of the asylum seekers there have no attorneys to help them demonstrate that they fear return to their countries of origin.
Our local partner, the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network, is working around the clock to respond, but needs extra hands on deck. Your help is needed now to prepare these individuals for credible fear interviews (CFIs). Receiving a positive decision in the CFI is the first step towards safety for these detainees.
Who can help:
• Interpreters for in-person or telephonic (remote) interpretation (Spanish, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali, Mandarin, Nepali, Uzbek, Urdu, Tamil, Sinhala, Swahili, Lingala, Georgian, Portuguese, French, Russian, Tigrinya, Arabic, and Vietnamese).
*Lawyers are also needed for in-person client assistance with credible fear interviews - if you are interested in volunteering for direct client work (rather than interpretation assistance), please see the accompanying Project description "Urgent Call: Lawyers Needed to Serve Over 400 New Detainees"
The Immigration Justice Campaign
The Immigration Justice Campaign is a joint initiative between the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and the American Immigration Council (AIC) to mobilize and train volunteer lawyers inside and outside the immigration bar to provide deportation defense to immigrants.
The Immigration Justice Campaign
The Immigration Justice Campaign is a joint initiative between the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and the American Immigration Council (AIC) to mobilize and train volunteer lawyers inside and outside the immigration bar to provide deportation defense to immigrants.