General Resources
Freedom for Immigrants
Freedom for Immigrants is the leading national organization dedicated to abolishing immigration detention and ending the suffering of detained immigrants. FFI operates the nation’s largest immigrant detention and family support hotline.
Justice for Migrant Families
Justice for Migrant Families is a nonprofit that provides support to individuals in the federal detention facility in Batavia, New York.
ICE Detainee Locator
To locate an immigrant in detention in the United States.
Dignity Not Detention Act
Information on how to support and sign on to legislation that ends all current and future contracts between ICE and facilities that detain immigrants in New York State.
New York 4 All Act
Information on how to support and sign on to legislation that protects immigrants from ICE custody on a local level.
Know Your Power
Resources for immigrants and their advocates on navigating encounters with immigration officials.
ACLU Immigrant Rights and Detention
Overview of landscape of immigrant detention in the U.S., including conditions, human rights violations, and legislative advocacy. Also provides know-your-rights information.
Local Ithaca Resources
Cornell Immigration Legal Clinic
The 1L Cornell Immigration Legal Clinic works to support individuals with precarious immigration status on a pro bono basis.
Cornell Farmworkers’ Legal Assistance Clinic
The Cornell Farmworkers’ Legal Assistance Clinic works to support individuales, primarily children, who have arrived to the United States as an unaccompanied minor. They assist them with changing their migration status and establishing permanent residency in the United States.
American Civic Association
Assists with completing forms required by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. They assist with anyone who is seeking to adjust their migration status.
Erie County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project, Inc.
Assists with filings preparing and acquiring representation for Asylum Interviews (Credible Fear Interviews, Reasonable Fear Interviews). They are willing to represent you in front of the immigration courts.