Respond Blog
Newsletter January-June 2022
There is so much happening in the world that pulls us in many directions. One thing we know, the Respond community, has each other’s backs. Since the beginning of 2022 we’ve mobilized to help Haitians, Afghans, Ukrainians, and so many others.
Fighting for Language Access in our Education System: Partnership with ImmSchools
In partnership with ImmSchools, Respond Crisis Translation has worked to translate dozens of key resources for undocumented and mixed-status families navigating the educational system. In this interview, ImmSchools founders Viridiana Carrizales and Vanessa Luna discuss the critical importance of language access to their work…
Highlighting our Impact: Partnership with HIAS
HIAS has been around since 1881 as a refugee-serving organization. We protect the most vulnerable refugees, helping them build new lives and reuniting them with their families in safety and freedom. We advocate for the protection of refugees and assure that displaced people are treated with the dignity they deserve….
Highlighting our Impact: Partnership with RAICES
The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) is a nonprofit with a mission to defend the rights of immigrants and refugees, empower individuals, families, and communities, and advocate for liberty and justice.
Highlighting our Impact: Partnership with CLINIC
Estamos Unidos is a CLINIC’s asylum project based in Ciudad Juarez. It started as a response to the Migrant Protection Protocols program that puts asylum seekers at a major disadvantage by making them wait for their asylum hearings in Mexico. Our mission is to promote and protect human dignity …
Highlighting our Impact: Partnership with Southern Poverty Law Center
SIFI stands for the Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (La Iniciativa para la Liberación de los Inmigrantes en el Sureste). We are a pro bono legal services project initiated by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in 2017 to serve people detained at ICE detention centers across the Deep South United States.