Fellowship equips community members as nonlegal representatives in immigration cases
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Graduates clap for the first-ever Colibrí Fellowship class on May 26, 2023. The fellowship is an eight-month program providing Department of Justice accreditation through the Immigrant Justice Leadership Academy at The Resurrection Project.
From January through March, there were more than 400 legal screenings of asylum-seekers in a program established by the Department of Human Services of Illinois, said Erendira Rendon, vice president of immigrant justice at Chicago’s Resurrection Project, and not enough attorneys available to help them file their cases.
Illinois is home to 425,000 immigrants without permanent legal status, according to a research study by Rob Paral and Associates. That is not counting the new arrivals in the last few months, accounting for more than 10,000 asylum-seekers, according to city officials. So even though Illinois has expanded its support for not-for-profit organizations to provide immigration services or outreach through several programs, including the Illinois Access to Justice program, funded by the state and The New Americans Initiative, “it is not enough to meet the extreme need,” Rendon said.
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