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Walter is 30 years old and is sitting in an ICE detention center where he’s been held for the last 3.5 years despite winning his case before the immigration court twice. Each time he has won, DHS has appealed and he has remained in custody. Walter’s story highlights the lack of due process protections in deportation proceedings as well as severe government neglect and misconduct. ICE is attempting to deport Walter due to convictions (including from over 10 years ago) for whi...ch he has fully served his sentences. Ironically, the longest period Walter has ever served in jail on any criminal conviction is 6 months but Walter has now been in immigration custody for 6.5 times longer than that period of time. If released, Walter would immediately check into the 6 month alcohol recovery program that he has been admitted to in order to address his alcohol dependency. Walter has courageously shared his story as a survivor of sexual assault and the impact it has made on his mental health, pushing him to resort to alcohol as a coping mechanism. Walter’s continued detention is inhumane. He deserves to be released so that he can get the community services he deserves and make his way home to his family! #100DaysforFreedom

Join us Saturday, February 13 at 10am for an Immigration Forum and Free Attorney Clinics (partnering with Faith in Action East Bay)! Learn about your rights, updated legal immigration information, and free attorney consultations. Please share! **** ¡Únese con nosotros este Sabado, el 13 de Febrero, a las 10 de la mañana para un Foro de Inmigracion y Consultas de Abogado Gratuitas (con Faith in Action East Bay)! Conozca sus derechos, información de inmigración legal actualizada, y consultas de abogado gratuitas. Porfavor comparten!

An East Bay women's prison facility had a coronavirus outbreak. Susan Beaty, a lawyer with Centro Legal de la Raza, which provides legal services to immigrants, said one of their clients in FCI Dublin is infected. She has been sick since Dec. 6, Beaty said.

We're excited to announce that Maria Hinojosa, host of Latino USA and author of Once I Was You, will be our key note speaker at this year's "La Gala: Take a Chance on Justice." Register today at centrolegal.org/lagal. Community member tickets are FREE. We hope to see you there!

Happy New Year! We are humbled by your support and thrilled for what’s ahead in 2021. We wish you all the best in this new year! Make your year-end gift before midnight tonight! Thank you for your support and generosity. centrolegal.org/donate

The Immigrants’ Rights team at Centro Legal has advocated tirelessly for the abolition of detention centers and jails across the state, taking direction from community members personally impacted by detention and incarceration. This week, detained community members and advocates joined the #Somos15 campaign to raise awareness to the fifteen undocumented immigrants who are still being held in the immigration wards of Yuba County Jail, and who bravely speak out against the injustices they face there. No one got us the way our community got us. Check out our chat with Centro’s immigration paralegal, Deyci Carrillo Lopez, to learn about our bold advocacy efforts to #FreeThemAll! Visit centrolegal.org/donate to support this work.

Thank you for being part of Centro Legal in 2020. Our commitment to our clients profoundly shapes our work, year after year and 2020 was no different. In the upcoming year, we hope to continue to break the mold as we fight for justice. We hope you will join us in making 2021 impactful. Thank you for your consideration! centrolegal.org/donate Happy New Year!

Let’s ring in the new year together. THANK YOU for supporting Centro Legal de la Raza during this unprecedented year. It’s not too late to make a year-end tax-deductible gift! Join us as we continue the fight to protect and advance the rights of low-income, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and Immigrant communities. It takes all of us! Tis the season of giving: centrolegal.org/donate

You are warmly invited to join us for LA GALA Take a Chance on Justice centrolegal.org/lagala Please join us on March 11, 2021 at 6:00PM to celebrate our work in advancing and protecting the rights of the communities we serve together. We have an exciting virtual program planned! You’ll learn about our transformative legal services and advocacy efforts in our practices areas of Tenants’ Rights, Immigrants’ Rights, Workers’ Rights, affirmative litigation, and our youth dev...elopment program - the Youth Law Academy. Maria Hinojosa, acclaimed journalist, author, and founder of Futuro Media Group, joins Centro Legal as our keynote speaker. We are honored to have Ms. Hinojosa join us, and hope you will too!

Centro Legal hopes that you find balance with your mind, body, and soul as this year winds down. Thank you for being with us in 2020. It’s been a tumultuous time, but we made it! Together, we will continue to stand and fight for justice in 2021! Support Centro Legal’s work today: centrolegal.org/donate.

Centro Legal de la Raza is hosting a Facebook Live event for the tenants of Alameda County. Get your questions answered by our tenants’ rights attorneys. Please join us to learn more about your rights.

When local government leaders stand up for immigrant communities, it offers a necessary and powerful counter-narrative to the federal government’s relentless anti-immigrant policies and dangerous, divisive rhetoric. If we wish to truly live our values as Americans, we must encourage all local leaders to get behind the growing movement for universal representation to help to ensure that due process is a right for all, not just a privilege for some.

Follow Alameda County Immigration Legal & Education Partnership, visit https://www.centrolegal.org/acilep/ to access Know Your Rights flyers in Spanish, Arabic, Korean, Mandarin, and other languages. ACILEP provides a rapid response to the legal needs of Alameda County residents and families facing imminent deportation or other adverse action as a result of immigration enforcement activities like raids in homes, workplaces, schools, and neighborhoods.

City of Oakland - Local Government passed key tenant protections this summer, and City Attorney Barbara K. Parker’s Housing Justice Initiative puts those protections into action. #ProtectOakland https://www.housingjusticeoakland.org

Looking for a temporary job? Have experience talking to clients? Join Centro Legal’s Workers’ Rights team! Visit centrolegal.org/careers to access the full application. #jobsearch #job #jobopportunity #forhire

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a Ninth Circuit decision that held illegal a Trump administration policy that sends asylum seekers to wait in Mexico in dangerous conditions as their claims for protection in the United States are considered.

Don't delay, respond today! Time is running out to secure the federal funding and political power that our community deserves. www.my2020census.gov ¡No se demore, responda hoy! Se está acabando el tiempo para asegurar la financiación federal y el poder político que nuestra comunidad merece. https://2020census.gov/es.html #DaleFormaATuFuturo #OurCommunityCounts #OurCommunityBelongs

Last week, immigration attorneys, advocates, and organizers in California fighting for mass releases from jails, prisons and immigration detention centers led a... united effort to coordinate a Banner Drop Statewide Day of Action to bring attention to the impact of California Governor Gavin Newsom's lack of actions. We are calling on California Governor Gavin Newsom to immediately: -Use power, including mass clemency and emergency release, to free people in state prisons -Stop transfers from California custody to ICE and between California prisons -Stop the expansion of immigration detention in California -Hold the detention industry accountable #FreeThemAll #StopICEtransfers Video edited by Jonatan Garibay.

As partners and supporters of Vera’s SAFE Initiative, we are dedicated to publicly funded, universal representation for immigrants facing detention and deportation. We are committed to efforts that advance and grow local and state deportation defense programs and we are proud to be part of a movement calling for the creation of a federally funded right to counsel system. Learn more about Vera's SAFE Initiative: https://www.vera.org//support-universal-representation-saf SA...FE 2020 Convening: Local Action on Immigration, Universal Representation, and the Path Forward to Federal Change Register at: https://verainstitute.zoom.us//r/WN_g9yz-MWkR-KyMbA8PycqAA See more

Tue, October 13, 2020 12:00 PM 1:00 PM PDT Registration: FREE Join in at 12PM today for this panel that will discuss the importance of Rebellious Lawyering in advocating for immigrant clients during a global pandemic. Our very own Aidin Castillo, Directing Attorney at Centro Legal de la Raza, will be a panelist.

Now hiring for our Tenants’ Rights team! Visit centrolegal.org/careers for the full application details. #GrantsManager #attorneys #lawyer #lawyerforhire #nowhiring #tenantrights #tenantrepresentation #jobopportunity

The Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership invites you to join our team of volunteer responders to resist the raids and deportations. Learn how to verify IVE activity and be a legal observer to protect our communities from ICE! TinyURL.com/ACILEP-Volunteer ICE La asociación de educación legal de inmigración del Condado de Alameda lo invita a unirse a nuestro equipo de respondedores voluntarios para resistir las redadas de deportaciones. ¡Aprenda a verificar la actividad de ICE y sea un observador legal para proteger a nuestras comunidades! TinyURL.com/ACILEP-Volunteer

Bienvenidos a todos a nuestro foro sobre Liberación no Encarcelamiento vamos a platicar más sobre los maneras en que la comunidad está combatiendo el encarcel...amiento masivo de inmigrantes en centros de detención. Thank you everyone for joining us in our forum Liberation not Incarceration we will be talking about ways the community is fighting the mass incarceration of immigrants in detention centers. For English interpretation One tap mobile +16699006833,,99526962543# US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 995 2696 2543 Passcode: 189002

The Worker's Guide: Your Rights During the Coronavirus Pandemic has been updated. Visit our Website for the full guides in English and Spanish: https://www.centrolegal.org/covid-19/ La guía del trabajador: Sus derechos durante el coronavirus, ha sido actualizado, visita nuestra pagina web: https://www.centrolegal.org/covid-19/