FINDING LEGAL HELP FOR A NON-CITIZEN
LEGAL SERVICE NON-PROFITS :
Make sure to carefully look at the websites to see what services are offered and how they would like to be contacted. It is important to understand that legal service organizations often do not have the capacity to respond to an emergency situtation
New Mexico Immigrant Law Center
Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center
Las Cumbres
(For this check out link up top that says “Community Defense”— this is my project)
PRIVATE ATTORNEYS WHO ARE GREAT:
Kitson Law Firm (505) 508-4015
Victoria Ferrara (505) 690-2583
Evelyn Herrera (505) 216-6658
Scott Weaver (505) 218-7265
Vrapi Weeks (505) 466-5600
ORGS THAT SUPPORT OUR NON-CITIZEN NEIGHBORS
Donate! Follow their work! Volunteer! Be patient! Remember not to center your need to help over their need to help our neighbors!
New Mexico Immigrant Law Center
These are not all the great places just some that I support. Remember that Immigrant Justice is:
Housing justice
Food Justice
Educational Justice
Economic Justice
Health Justice
There are not wrong places to support if they are out there doing the work for our community!
WHAT ABOUT DETENTION?
DETENTION CENTER INFORMATION:
The following detention centers are located in ICE’s El Paso ERO (which includes all of NM)
Torrance County Detention Facility
-Located in Estancia, NM
- Privately operated by Core Civic
Cibola County Correctional Center
-Located in Milan, NM
- Privately operated by Core Civic
Otero County Processing Center
-Located in Chaparral, NM
- Privately operated by Core Civic
El Paso Service Processing Center
-Located in El Paso, TX
- Federally operated
El Paso Camp East Montana/Fort Bliss
- On Ft Bliss military base North of El Paso
- Federally Operated