Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network

A nonprofit organization

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 empirical 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 endeavors 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.

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Mission

The 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.

Organization Data

Summary

Organization name

Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network

other names

RMIAN

Year Established

2000

Tax id (EIN)

84-1565542

Category

Crime & Legal-Related

Organization Size

Large Organization

Address

7301 Federal Blvd. Suite 300
Westminster, CO 80030

Service areas

CO, US

Phone

303-433-2812

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