. HUMAN RIGHTS .
Information from the The Detention Watch Network
Detention Watch Network (DWN) members are working at the international, national, regional and local levels to fight against detention and deportation, while advocating for humane and just immigration policies.
According to the Network, as of March 14, 2025, the US immigration authorities are holding 46,269 people in detention.
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Network members include formerly detained people and their families, community and faith-based groups, legal service providers, lawyers, national and regional advocates and organizers, and law school clinics.
Learn more about our diverse organizational membership.
International Organizations
National Organizations
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Friends Service Committee
- Amnesty International USA
- Asylum Seekers Sponsorship Project
- Black Diaspora Liberty Initiative Inc
- Center for Constitutional Rights
- Community Justice Exchange
- Freedom For Immigrants
- Friends Committee on National Legislation
- Immigrant Defense Project
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center
- Innovation Law Lab
- Just Futures Law
- LatinoJustice
- Latinx Therapists Action Network
- National Immigration Law Center
- National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild
- National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
- National Religious Campaign Against Torture
- Never Again Action
- Project ANAR
- Sheriffs for Trusting Communities
- Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
- Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Tsuru For Solidarity
- UndocuBlack
- United Stateless
Regional Organizations
- Alagape
- Amica Center for Immigrant Rights
- Envision Freedom Fund
- First Friends of NJ & NY
- Immigration Services & Legal Advocacy
- SouthEast Dignity Not Detention Coalition
- Southeast Immigrant Rights Network (SEIRN)
- Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice (UUSJ)
State and Local Organizations
Alabama
Arizona
- Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
- Mariposas Sin Fronteras
- Trans Queer Pueblo – Semilla de Liberación
California
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus
- Asian Prisoner Support Committee
- California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance
- Immigrant Legal Defense
- Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
- ÓRALE – Organizing Rooted in Abolition, Liberation & Empowerment
- Orange County Justice Fund
- NorCal Resist
- Public Counsel
- Union Trans-GNC
Colorado
- Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition
- Immigrant Freedom Fund
- Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network
Connecticut
Florida
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Georgia
- Community EsTr(El/La)
- El Refugio Ministry
- Georgia Detention Watch
- Team Libertad, a program of Inspiritus
- The ICEbreakers
Illinois
- Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
- Illinois Community for Displaced Immigrants
- Organized Communities Against Deportations
- Scott D. Pollock & Associates, P.C.
Indiana
Louisiana
Maine
Massachusetts
- Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network (BIJAN)
- Jewish Activists for Immigration Justice of Western MA
- MIRA Coalition
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
New Jersey
- Make the Road New Jersey
- Movimento Cosecha New Jersey
- New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice
- Resistencia en Accion NJ
Nevada
New Mexico
New York
- The Bronx Defenders
- Families for Freedom
- Lighthouse Equality Advocacy Project
- Make the Road New York
- Mami Chelo Foundation
- South Bronx Mutual Aid
- Una carta salva una vida
North Carolina
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Washington
- Jefferson County Immigrant Rights Advocates
- Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
- Washington Defender Association
- Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network
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