Immigrant Legal Rights Project
The Immigrant Legal Rights Project assists people in protecting their legal rights. The Project works hand-in-hand with RMM’s Rural Academy of the People and our long tradition of advocacy to utilize popular education as well as impact litigation and legislation to build capacity and ensure the just treatment of immigrant families.
A prime focus of the Project is to help immigrants understand and protect their rights so that they may advocate for themselves as they navigate the legal system and local police, as well as workplace and school systems in rural New York.
Read more...The Project also stands with immigrants as they initiate legislative efforts at town, county and state levels to introduce policies that both honor the humanity of immigrants and counter anti-immigrant policies. In addition, the Project, in partnership with other legal services organizations, law clinics and pro bono law firms, undertakes impact litigation to ensure the just treatment of immigrant families.
Finally, the Project is also partnering with immigrant legal services organizations to ensure individual legal services at some of our Centers.
What’s at Stake: The personal liberty of immigrants, who arrive in the U.S. from countries where they often are not physically safe or economically secure, is a basic human right. Immigrants and asylum-seekers come seeking freedom, with a strong desire to work and to contribute to our communities.
Why It Matters: Our immigrant brothers and sisters deserve a life that allows them to thrive, not merely survive, in a just society, free of intimidation and fear for their safety. The anti-immigrant vitriol and racism they face is at the heart of the systemic injustice that keeps them oppressed and vulnerable.
