Research Guides: Resources for Undocumented Students: Legal Resources/ Recursos Legales

Legal Resources for International and Undocumented Students

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Free or low-cost immigration legal help is available from a number of organizations in New York:

The New York Immigration Coalition has a list of non-profit immigration legal service organizations at www.thenyic.org/legal-orgs
The Immigration Advocates Nonprofit Resource Center also provides a list of immigration legal services in New York https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/nonprofit/legaldirectory/search?state=NY
New York City provides “free, safe immigration help at ActionNYC (or call the ActionNYC hotline at 1-800- 354-0365 during business hours Monday to Friday)
The Legal Aid Society hotline for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention cases 844-955-3425. For important information, visit legal-aid.org.

Many other organizations provide important timely information about the evolving immigration situation and the rights of immigrants:

American Civil Liberties Union https://www.aclu.org/issues/immigrants-rights?redirect=immigrants-rights
Catholic Legal Immigration Network https://cliniclegal.org/
Immigration Legal Resource Center https://www.ilrc.org/
National Immigration Law Center https://www.nilc.org/
Immigrant Defense Project (212) 725-6422
United We Dream hotline 1-844-363-1423

U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
Enforces several federal civil rights statutes, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Includes Division press releases, cases and briefs.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Defends the Bill of Rights in advocating issues such as capital punishment, disability rights, immigrant rights, religious liberty and racial equality. The ACLU works daily in court, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the U.S.
Institute for Justice
Libertarian public interest law firm, aiming to preserve freedom of opportunity and challenge government control over the lives of individuals. Areas of expertise are economic liberty, school choice, private property rights, and first amendment issues. Site includes publications, press releases and background on cases.
Human and Constitutional Rights
Maintained by Columbia University School of Law, this site contains A Comparative Constitutional Rights Chart, Bill of Rights Comparative Law Materials, a list of Hot Topics, International links, Web resources, Country Reports and Documents, and National and Regional Links. It also includes a special exhibit, "WASN'T THAT A TIME: A Century of Repression" with statements and portraits excerpted from It Did Happen Here: Recollections of Political Repression in America, and from a companion volume in progress to be entitled, The Price of Dissent.

Recursos legales para estudiantes internacionales y no documentados

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La ayuda legal de inmigración gratuita o de bajo costo está disponible en varias organizaciones en Nueva York:

La Coalición de Inmigración de Nueva York tiene una lista de organizaciones de servicios legales de inmigración sin fines de lucro en www.thenyic.org/legal-orgs
El Centro de Recursos para Beneficiarios de Inmigración también ofrece una lista de servicios legales de inmigración en Nueva York https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/nonprofit/legaldirectory/search?state=NY
New York City ofrece "ayuda de inmigración gratuita y segura en ActionNYC (o llame a la línea directa de ActionNYC al 1-800-354-0365 durante las horas de oficina de lunes a viernes)
La línea directa de la Sociedad de Asistencia Legal para los casos de detención de la Agencia de Aduanas y Inmigración (ICE) 844-955-3425. Para obtener información importante, visite legal-aid.org.

Muchas otras organizaciones proporcionan información importante y oportuna sobre la evolución de la situación migratoria y los derechos de los inmigrantes:

Unión Americana de Libertades Civiles https://www.aclu.org/issues/immigrants-rights?redirect=immigrants-rights
Red de Inmigración Legal Católica https://cliniclegal.org/
Centro de Recursos Legales de Inmigración https://www.ilrc.org/
Centro Nacional de Derecho de Inmigración https://www.nilc.org/
Proyecto de Defensa de Inmigrantes (212) 725-6422
Línea directa de United We Dream 1-844-363-1423