Advocates for Immigrant Rights
Non-Profit Organisation
To meet the needs of immigrants in the Regional South, three non-profit immigration legal service providers formed a coalition called Welcome South (WS) - Advocates for Immigrant Rights, Community Legal Center (CLC) and the Mid-South Immigrant Advocates (MIA). It was designed to encourage agencies across the Deep South to communicate, coordinate and collaborate in a holistic approach to the representation of a person throughout their immigration life cycle. Welcome South is working to provide a network of support and continuity of representation, pulling together disparate resources to increase our capacity for legal service throughout the region. Through the WS coalition, we are developing an online platform through Innovation Law Lab to facilitate cross-network referrals from social service agencies to our legal programs, between our programs, to pro bono counsel and to other legal programs across the country. This online portal will help solve the problems created by distance and service gaps. With this technology, the case travels with the client during their unpredictable movements among remote detention facilities, and also increases the efficiency--and thus capacity--of our organizations to serve clients. We envision Welcome South integrating additional partnerships to grow a strong and healthy ecosystem of legal and social services for immigrants throughout our region with the core group of three organizations propelling legal strategy for economy of scale representation.
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