Immigrant Justice Corps (IJC)

Immigrant Justice Corps is the only organization in the nation that champions access to Justice for immigrants by training and mobilizing a new generation of leaders to cultivate innovative models for representation and support a network of organizations to build a humane immigration system. The Immigrant Justice Corps fellowship program places lawyers and college graduates in two-year assignments at over 100 partner organizations in more than 30 states, offering a blueprint for providing high-quality legal assistance to immigrants in need, while building network capacity on the ground. There are millions of immigrants facing deportation in removal proceedings and more than half cannot afford counsel. There are far too few free, skilled lawyers and paralegals, resulting in an unprecedented...(continued on schedule o)due process crisis, placing hundreds of thousands of immigrants at risk of being unfairly deported, separated from their families, and returned to life-threatening situations. Immigrant Justice Corps fellows have served over 100,000 immigrants and their families since 2014, obtaining positive outcomes in over 90% of closed cases.