Our approach to helping in this crisis moment is to collaborate: We reach out to organizations with longstanding trusting relationships in and with immigrant communities and rely on them to tell us what help is truly helpful.
In Washtenaw County, we have terrific partners, described below. We are currently working on four projects:
All of this fits into the Sanctuary movement, broadly defined.
We invite your help with a project to gather up information about other similarly dedicated and effective immigrant rights and services organizations: just go to Ideas for New Collaborations and fill out the survey.
The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center (MIRC) is a legal resource center for Michigan’s immigrant communities. MIRC works to build a thriving Michigan where immigrant communities are fully integrated and respected.
More About MIRC: See their website.
The Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights (WICIR) is an organization of morally c
onscious people who are members of numerous community groups and faith-based organizations. We are diverse in race and ethnicity, national origin, language, gender, age, abilities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and socio economic class status, and immigration status. We work together in coalition because we understand that the oppression of one group of people endorses the oppression of any group of people, at anytime.
For more information, see WICIR’s Facebook page.
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