#nijc

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Everyone at TopatoCo supports today's ICE Out strike. Because we are a small business, we will be remaining open; however we will be donating 50% of our profits for today to the National Immigrant Justice Center.

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Donate to the Emergency Fund to Protect Immigrants

Your donation to the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) provides life-changing legal services that keeps families together and puts co

2X MATCH: Double the Impact of Your Passover Gift

Since taking office, the Trump administration has slashed refugee protections — cutting foreign aid, banning resettlement, and fueling dange

Both the NIJC and the HIAS are matching all donations right now (the NIJC for their emergency fund specifically), so this is an *extra* good time to donate whatever you can to them. Both help immigrants, refugees/asylum seekers, undocumented persons, and detainees in the US immigration system. (HIAS also does assorted other things worldwide, and is suing the Trump administration right now.)

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Know Your Rights: ICE

Know Your Rights | Immigrants' Rights | ACLU

Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant,

All individuals in the United States have rights, regardless of immigration status.  The following information can help you protect yourself

Here are some resources for you to know your rights if you encounter an ICE officer. Please, keep this information handy even if you personally are not (or think you are not) at risk of being victimized by ICE.

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All individuals in the United States have rights, regardless of immigration status.  The following information can help you protect yourself

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TODAY is the last day to register for the February16th FREE virtual legal clinic to renew your DACA! We still have a few spaces left! Register at: https://t.co/oSFqNIT8MZ https://t.co/H7XJVZcZSo

— National Immigrant Justice Center (@NIJC) Jan 25, 2022

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On Tuesday afternoon, we took a trip to the National Immigrant Justice Center, NIJC, to discuss what type of research we would help them with, but before we received our assignment we got some background information on the group. The NIJC works with immigrants who are seeking asylum in the US from their country because of either being attacked because of their sexuality, being stranded because of their sexuality, or fear of the above. The NIJC offers advice and pro bono work to LGBT individuals and couples who are trying to stay in the US to escape their home country where they could be harmed either by the government or by the people who the government turn a blind eye to.

The NIJC asked us to update their information about countries in which they work. In order to fully defend a person in court, the NIJC needs to show the judge that if the person was to return to their home country, they would face physical violence. In order to do so, they need to make sure that their information about the countries are up-to-date and accurate and so our job is to find articles from a few countries involving LGBT peoples and laws that either show support or objection towards the LGBT community. We're all super excited to start doing research and I think it will be pretty amazing to help out with such an amazing program.

- Tevin