Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AtlantaImpact Litigation
Our litigation team combines civil rights litigation with other strategies to expand legal protections for…
Immigrants, refugees, and people of color; voters of color and Asian American voters
From advancingjustice-atlanta.org/impact-litigation ↗About this program
AANHPI and other marginalized communities and to advocate against unjust, oppressive laws and policies. We focus on the areas of immigrant justice and voting rights. Outside of the courtroom, we use tools like community education and policy advocacy to advance community-driven social and political movements. At the heart of all of our work is the fight to protect and empower immigrants, refugees, and people of color.
In our immigrant justice work, we fight to free people from immigration detention. We have represented a nationwide class of Vietnamese refugees subject to indefinite detention, medically vulnerable people facing a high risk of serious injury, and many other individuals held in ICE prisons.
Our voting rights work combats a variety of voter suppression tactics and has included litigation expanding language access at the polls and ending a discriminatory voter registration policy that impacted thousands of voters of color.
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- Immigrants, refugees, and people of color; voters of color and Asian American voters
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Policy AdvocacyWe defend, protect, and advance the rights of Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, Native Hawaiians and other immigrants at all levels of government.
Civic Engagement & OrganizingWe aim to build a sustainable, community-centered movement to affect deep, long-term shifts in power, behavior, and culture through community-building and education, leadership development, issue-based and electoral campaigns, and multicultural, multiracial coalition building.
Legal ServicesSliding scale based on household income for legal services; certain humanitarian forms of relief and removal defense are free of charge; Know Your Rights presentations and citizenship application workshops are freeAsian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta’s legal services department provides comprehensive, high-quality direct immigration legal services to immigrants in Georgia.