Community Resources

Advocacy off Campus: DC

Amica Center for Immigrant Rights

The Amica Center is the only non-profit organization in the Capital region focused on providing free legal and social services to immigrant children and adults who are detained and at risk of deportation. Their resources include the Children’s Program, which assists unaccompanied immigrant children in detention, and the Immigration Impact Lab, which uses impact litigation to seek to usher in systematic change.
Website: https://amicacenter.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amicacenterforimmigrantrights/

Central American Resource Center (CARECEN-DC)

The Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) is a community-based organization that seeks to foster the comprehensive development of the Latino community in the Washington metropolitan region. CARECEN was founded in 1981 to protect the rights of refugees arriving from conflict in Central America and to help ease their transition by providing legal services. Today our programs provide direct services in immigration, housing and citizenship while also promoting empowerment, civil rights advocacy and civic training for Latinos.
Website: http://www.carecendc.org/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/CARECEN.DC

Advocacy Off-Campus: National Organizations

United We Dream

United We Dream is the largest immigrant youth-led organization in the nation. Our powerful nonpartisan network is made up of over 100,000 immigrant youth and allies and 55 affiliate organizations in 26 states. We organize and advocate for the dignity and fair treatment of immigrant youth and families, regardless of immigration status.
Website: http://unitedwedream.org/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/UnitedWeDream

Detention Watch Network

The Detention Watch Network works through the collective strength and diversity of its members to expose and challenge the injustices of the U.S. immigration detention and deportation system and advocate for profound change that promotes the rights and dignity of all persons.
Website: http://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/DetentionWatchNetwork

Advocacy Off-Campus: Northern Virginia

Undocu@Mason

UndocuMason works to create a more inclusive environment for undocumented immigrants through education and advocacy.
Website: https://mason360.gmu.edu/dreamers/home/

Dream Project – VA

The Dream Project empowers students whose immigration status creates barriers to education by working with them to access and succeed in college through scholarships, mentoring, family engagement, and advocacy. They partner with Mason DREAMers.
Website: http://www.dreamproject-va.org/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/DreamProject.VA

Virginia Coalition of Latino Organizations (VACOLAO)

The Virginia Coalition of Latino Organizations (VACOLAO) is a coalition of non-profit organizations serving and supporting the Latino/Hispanic immigrant communities in Virginia. Since its foundation in 2002, VACOLAO has been advocating for the rights of Latino immigrants in the Commonwealth. VACOLAO works to empower, secure equal treatment, opportunity, and representation for Latinos/Hispanics. To achieve this mission VACOLAO has provided leadership for education and advocacy for Latino immigrants and immigrant advocate supporters.
Website
Facebook

Legal Aid Justice Center

The Immigrant Advocacy Program represents low-wage immigrant workers in court and administrative proceedings, counsels them about their rights under federal and state law to be paid for their work, recovers unpaid wages they have earned, and fights workplace discrimination. With a special focus on day laborers and migrant farmworkers, we seek to stop unjust employment practices and assist hard-working immigrants throughout Virginia who face discrimination and exploitation.
Website: https://www.justice4all.org/get-help/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/LegalAidJusticeCenter