Summary
Organization name
Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network
other names
RMIAN
2000
Tax id (EIN)
84-1565542
Category
Crime & Legal-Related
Organization Size
Large Organization
Address
7301 Federal Blvd. Suite 300Westminster, CO 80030
CO, US
About
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Individuals, children, and families going through high-stakes immigration proceedings do not have the right to court-appointed counsel. In Colorado, approximately 90% of individuals detained at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Immigrant Detention Center in Aurora do not have a lawyer, despite studies showing that detained individuals with lawyers are over ten times more likely to win their cases than those without. Additionally, over half of unaccompanied children before the Denver Immigration Court do not have a lawyer. The Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN) exists to fight these grave injustices.
Equipped with over two decades of experience and nationally recognized expertise, RMIAN fights to ensure access to justice for all by providing free immigration legal services to adults detained at the Aurora Immigration Detention Center and to non-detained children and families throughout Colorado, in pursuit of a world where every person going through high-stakes immigration proceedings has legal counsel by their side.
Your support makes a profound impact on the lives of immigrants and asylum seekers in Colorado. Every contribution helps us provide critical legal representation, social services, and advocacy for individuals and families navigating a complex, overwhelming immigration system. With your generosity, RMIAN can continue to stand up for justice and fight for due process for every individual going through immigration proceedings.
Mission
Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN) serves low-income adults and children in immigration proceedings. RMIAN promotes knowledge of legal rights, provides effective representation to ensure due process, works to improve detention conditions, and promotes a more humane immigration system, including alternatives to detention.
Background Statement
Founded as a nonprofit organization in 2000, RMIAN provides free and culturally relevant immigration legal services to adults in civil immigration detention, as well as to children and families throughout Colorado.
In 2003, RMIAN was selected to pilot the now-nationally recognized Legal Orientation Program at the Aurora immigration detention center, where RMIAN staff members continue to have a daily presence conducting "Know Your Rights" presentations, individual orientations, and self-help workshops to detained individuals.
While working in the detention context, RMIAN identified the critical needs of children in immigration legal proceedings who had fled persecution and other forms of violence in their home countries and who were often unaware of relief mechanisms available to them. Seeing another vastly unmet need, RMIAN launched its Children's Program in 2005 to provide free legal services to immigrant children, as well as to provide technical assistance to child welfare professionals.
To provide further support to the individuals held in the immigration detention center, RMIAN's Social Service Project (SSP) offers vital social services to detained immigrants who have survived crimes, experience difficulty being isolated from their families, or suffer from mental illness. Finally, the Human Trafficking Project provides support to the Children's Program and the Detention Program by screening clients for trafficking indicators and seeking appropriate immigration relief and protection accordingly.
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Organization Data
Westminster, CO 80030