Volunteer Opportunities
Texas Border
Team Brownsville is an excellent place to start for those who want to activate their networks to assist migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES-Texas) has a service program at the Karnes County Detention Center for law students, lawyers, translators, as well as other volunteer opportunities in other Texas cities.
Refugee Services of Texas helps refugees, immigrants, and other displaced peoples integrate and thrive in their new communities.
Al Otro Lado welcomes volunteer attorneys, doctors, social workers, mental health and tech professionals to work (in person or remotely) in the Los Angeles area, Tijuana, and at the Otay Mesa detention center.
American Gateways welcomes doctors, counselors, and other professionals to offer volunteer services throughout Texas.
Vecina is an Austin-based non-profit that trains and mentors volunteer lawyers seeking to take asylum cases at the U.S.-Mexico border. They work with advocacy groups in Texas in the Laredo area and in California in San Diego/Tijuana. Vecina is seeking additional pro bono attorneys as well as technical and administrative assistance in their Austin office.
We Are Alight, formerly known as American Refugee Committee, welcomes volunteers at the U.S.-Mexico border who want to extend simple human justice to families in crisis who fled their homes fleeing violence and because of COVID related complications are stuck in migrant shelters. We Are Alight focuses on turning those shelters into livable, human-centered spaces where people can gather, heal and support each other.
Austin and San Antonio
Austin Sanctuary Network (ASN) conducts campaigns for public awareness about unjust threats of ICE arrest and deportation. ASN also drives immigrants to court appointments and ICE check-ins. During the pandemic, ASN is working closely with Food Not Bombs and Refugee Services of Texas (Austin) to help families who lost their jobs because of COVID-19 with shelter, rent and groceries.
Grassroots Leadership works against prison profiteering, deportation and unjust criminalization. They welcome help with office work, fundraising, translation.
Casa Marianella provides shelter, legal and medical assistance, ESL classes and more to refugees in Austin, Texas. Volunteers are needed in all aspects of their work.
Justice for our Neighbors Austin, a chapter of National Justice for our Neighbors, needs volunteers for document translation, research, client transportation, and pro bono legal services.
Interfaith Welcome Coalition provides assistance to refugees at the border and at ICE drop-offs in San Antonio.
San Antonio Region Justice for Our Neighbors provides legal assistance and transportation to immigration court and ICE appointments.
DuPage County/West Chicago
People Made Visible is dedicated to creating community through cultural, educational, and artistic events in the West Chicago area.
Immigrant Solidarity DuPage educates, organizes, and mobilizes around rights and issues affecting the Latinx community in Chicagoland.
6000 Moms is a non-partisan group of people who are actively involved in preventing the separation of children from parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.