Deportation Defense Legal Network
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Help us establish a toll-free legal hotline in ICE detention centers so detainees can make free calls for bond representation. This campaign will help pay for multilingual staff to answer detainee calls.
Securing release on bond is the most important thing we can do for detainees. Release on bond reunites families and allows them to seek long-term legal solutions to their immigration status.
Immigrants have a right to counsel in immigration court but, because deportation is classified as a civil rather than a criminal sanction, immigrants are not afforded the constitutional protections under the Sixth Amendment of being provided with an attorney if they cannot afford one. Detained immigrants face additional obstacles of accessing counsel from behind bars.
In every immigration case, the government is represented by a trained attorney who can argue for deportation, yet only 14% of detained immigrants receive legal representation, and the lack of appointed counsel has a profound impact on immigrants’ ability to receive a fair hearing. Only 2% of detainees without council are able to receive a favorable ruling. According to the American Immigration Council:
• Immigration detainees with representation are ELEVEN TIMES more likely to seek relief (32% with counsel vs 3% without).
• Immigration detainees with representation are FOUR TIMES more likely to be released (44% with counsel vs 11%without).
• Immigration detainees with representation are TWO TIMES more likely to obtain the immigration relief they sought (49 % with counsel vs 23% without).
DDLN's mission is : To assure the preservation of Justice and Human Rights by pursuing legal representation for all immigrants.
The increase in detentions and new threats to DACA are having a profound effect on immigrant families, as well as communities; causing economic hardship, emotional distress, and family separation; leaving children without one or both parents in some cases. Providing legal counsel is the single most effective way to assure that Human Rights are protected and that Justice is served.
• DDLN is training non-immigration attorneys to provide pro-bono Bond Hearing representation to immigrant detainees.
• DDLN is providing Know-Your-Rights videos and Legal Orientation Presentations in ICE detention centers.
• DDLN is working to establish a toll-free hotline so detainees can make free phone calls for legal assistance.
Your contribution to DDLN makes it possible for detainees to receive the legal representation they deserve, keeping families united and assuring that the rule of law is maintained.
Learn more at DDLNKC.org.
Thank you for your support!
PS: If you're a non-immigration attorney or foreign language interpreter, please join the Network at Volunteer.DDLNKC.org .
Securing release on bond is the most important thing we can do for detainees. Release on bond reunites families and allows them to seek long-term legal solutions to their immigration status.
Immigrants have a right to counsel in immigration court but, because deportation is classified as a civil rather than a criminal sanction, immigrants are not afforded the constitutional protections under the Sixth Amendment of being provided with an attorney if they cannot afford one. Detained immigrants face additional obstacles of accessing counsel from behind bars.
In every immigration case, the government is represented by a trained attorney who can argue for deportation, yet only 14% of detained immigrants receive legal representation, and the lack of appointed counsel has a profound impact on immigrants’ ability to receive a fair hearing. Only 2% of detainees without council are able to receive a favorable ruling. According to the American Immigration Council:
• Immigration detainees with representation are ELEVEN TIMES more likely to seek relief (32% with counsel vs 3% without).
• Immigration detainees with representation are FOUR TIMES more likely to be released (44% with counsel vs 11%without).
• Immigration detainees with representation are TWO TIMES more likely to obtain the immigration relief they sought (49 % with counsel vs 23% without).
DDLN's mission is : To assure the preservation of Justice and Human Rights by pursuing legal representation for all immigrants.
The increase in detentions and new threats to DACA are having a profound effect on immigrant families, as well as communities; causing economic hardship, emotional distress, and family separation; leaving children without one or both parents in some cases. Providing legal counsel is the single most effective way to assure that Human Rights are protected and that Justice is served.
• DDLN is training non-immigration attorneys to provide pro-bono Bond Hearing representation to immigrant detainees.
• DDLN is providing Know-Your-Rights videos and Legal Orientation Presentations in ICE detention centers.
• DDLN is working to establish a toll-free hotline so detainees can make free phone calls for legal assistance.
Your contribution to DDLN makes it possible for detainees to receive the legal representation they deserve, keeping families united and assuring that the rule of law is maintained.
Learn more at DDLNKC.org.
Thank you for your support!
PS: If you're a non-immigration attorney or foreign language interpreter, please join the Network at Volunteer.DDLNKC.org .
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