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Mission Statement
The Immigrant Defense Project is an organization that assists immigrants with legal proceedings in the United States. Their mission focuses on combating the perceived injustices regarding racial bias in the legal system of the United States. According to the Immigrant Defense Project, the racial bias found in the United States' criminal justice system leads to the violation of human rights, including the separation of families and entire communities. This project provides resources not only for immigrants that need litigation help but also for attorneys, lawyers, and prosecutors during these types of cases. Their aim is to set the status quo for future legal battles so that no racial group is discriminated and all proceedings are fair.

Strategies
Some of the strategies the Immigrant Defense Project uses to combat the injustices they mention include: legal advice, impact litigation, advocacy, community empowerment, and education.

Legal Advice
One of the Immigrant Defense Project's roles include being a support system for families, criminal defenders, and family court practitioners. Their legal advice provides background information on the proper ways court proceedings should be done during immigration cases. The project provides resources like the Padilla Support Center and a Helpline for those who need assistance with their upcoming court proceedings.

Impact Litigation
This aspect of the Immigrant Defense Project provides a more direct role in immigration lawsuits. This role of the project focuses on providing assistance with lawsuits at the federal court level. The project takes on a more active role in federal lawsuits because it wants to help create the foundation for a future law that allows for immigrants to stay in the United States. Working side-by-side with nonprofit organizations, pro bono law firms, and others, the Immigrant Defense Project's impact litigation provides immigrants with strong representation.

Advocacy
Immigration Defense Project's advocacy efforts include policy work, building alliances, and providing support for immigrant communities that are the most impacted by current treatment.* The project works to end the defamation of immigrants and seeks to provide support for all, including those who have criminal convictions. The Immigrant Defense Project works with communities to raise awareness about the current federal, state, and local policies regarding deportation and the explain how courts should be handling the proceedings without discriminating immigrants.

Community Empowerment
The Immigrant Defense Project aims to build alliances within communities so that they can support each other and work together to advocate for their rights. The creation and implementation of trainings for communities allows for them to understand more in depth the deportation system and their rights in the legal system.

Education
The project provides various booklets, posters, and other miscellaneous resources about raids, rights, and other topics related to immigration proceedings. The Immigrant Defense Project provides these resources in up to sixteen different languages, making their aim to provide immigrants from a variety of backgrounds with legal assistance.

Jobs and Internships
The Immigrant Defense Project provides a variety of opportunities for people to get involved. Some of these positions include jobs as attorneys and internships.

Advocacy Staff Attorney
An advocacy staff attorney's job at the Immigrant Defense Project includes community defense and advocacy duties at all levels of the government. The advocacy staff attorney would also provide support to the project's hotline system. This job position focuses more on the support system that the project provides.

Litigation Staff Attorney
The litigation staff attorney position works with other attorneys that are part of the Immigrant Defense project to create strategies for impact litigation.

Communications Internship
This internship focuses on the Immigrant Defense Project's communications skills and media presence. The position is unpaid but can provide college credit. Some of the position's requirements are researching and monitoring different materials that can be related to or can affect a court proceeding.

Legal Internship
This internship is for law-school students and is offered in the summer and term-time slots.