National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild
The National Immigration Project was formed in
1974 as a committee of the National Lawyers Guild
and became a free-standing organization here in
Boston in 1980, as a “social justice bar group to
protect, defend, and expand the legal, civil and
constitutional rights of all immigrants in the United
States, regardless of legal status.” In addition to aiding
political refugees and working to expose violence
against immigrant women and their children, they
also provide training and technical legal support for
over 1,000 immigration advocates, domestic violence
shelter workers, and criminal defense practitioners
across the U.S. The Project has successfully petitioned
the Department of Homeland Security, published
extensively on immigrants’ rights, and has publicized
the plight of noncitizens with HIV. In Massachusetts,
they’ve trained judges on the consequences for immigrants
of criminal conduct in this state. In a country
rife with tension concerning the status of immigrants,
it is imperative that this kind of immigrant advocacy
continues. Because of the National Immigration
Project, families that would otherwise be separated by
political borders are able to live and thrive together.
This is an organization that works at the strategic
level, helping hundreds of thousands of people accede
simply to what is theirs by right, under our Constitution—
and they need your help.

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