We believe in the freedom of movement and migration for all people.
The immigration system is designed to exclude, surveil, and punish immigrants of color to uphold white supremacy. As community lawyers, we believe that our role is to support directly impacted immigrant communities of color who are leading movements to change this racist, imperialist, violent system.
Our Immigrants’ Rights team partners with community-based organizations rooted in such communities to support their work to build power by:
- Assisting their members in obtaining and maintaining immigration status through staffing community-based legal clinics, providing screenings and consultations, as well as direct representation;
- Offering popular education workshops and Know Your Rights trainings to provide essential and up-to-date information on changing immigration policies;
- Providing rapid response and support for individual members targeted by ICE;
- Working in coalition with local and national immigrants’ rights groups;
- Providing technical support for partners’ campaigns for legislative and policy changes; and,
- Challenging harsh immigration laws and enforcement practices.
In addition, we believe that the struggle for immigrant justice is deeply connected with the struggle for all working class people. Thus, we provide immigration support to community partners of TakeRoot’s other practice areas and support the broader immigrants’ rights movement in New York City where we can.
