Freedom for Immigrants
Civic and Social OrganizationsCalifornia, United States11-50 Employees
Freedom for Immigrants is a nonprofit organization in the civic and social sector, based in Oakland, California. Its work centers on abolishing immigration detention and ending the isolation of individuals held in the detention system. The group operates inside 69 immigrant prisons and jails through a network of visitation groups that provide routine presence, monitoring, and documentation, and it runs a national abuse documentation hotline that receives over 40,000 calls per year. By collecting data and personal narratives from inside facilities, the organization aims to illuminate injustices and support systemic reform. Positioned within the civic and immigrant-rights landscape, the organization emphasizes direct engagement with detainees and community-based advocacy to promote alternatives to detention. In 2021, Freedom for Immigrants released a report describing how the detention system conceals detainee locations from families and advocates, illustrating the group’s efforts to illuminate hidden aspects of detention.
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