Videos

When local organizations join together to share resources and expertise, change is inevitable. Hear more from our partners at the Community Resource Center in Mamaroneck — Executive Director Jirandy Martinez and Managing Attorney Bertha Rodriguez — about our latest efforts to support refugees...and why we keep doing what we’re doing.

One by one, our refugee families are receiving short-notice requirements to appear in court. The emotional and financial strain is extraordinary. Hear more from immigration attorneys Jeffrey Feinbloom and Sharyn Bertisch on the realities today, and why community-based organizations are so critical right now. The costs for immigration legal services are mounting and we have pivoted resettling new refugee families to defending and protecting the ones who are here. Please consid

Bertha Rodriguez and Jirandy Martinez from CRC are on the front lines of the legal battle. "Unfortunately, we have had ice encounters both locally and also at immigration courts. So when families are scheduled to attend their immigration courts, unfortunately they have been detained and because we have our community justice program that can support that family and just provide those services, especially in such a scary time When we get in front of the courtroom, we have ICE a

They're detaining people even with pending cases that had never been done before in the history of our country.