California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice (CCIJ)

Following the 2016 elections, NCCIJ* and NCRRIDN**, two immigrant removal defense collaboratives, joined efforts to provide better legal assistance to the detained immigrant community in Northern and Central California. CCIJ was born of this merger. After several years of incorporating rapid response, detained representation, legal screenings, and data strategy into our work, we realized that traditional ideas of lawyering and non-profit work were not resulting in the systemic change we desired. We realized that the only truly effective way to do this work is through community-legal partnership and power-building of impacted communities. Seeking justice in a system that criminalizes people...

Immigrant justice,removal proceedings,representation for immigrants in detention,and legal services

California collaborative for immigrant justice (ccij) operates in the Legal services industry.

California collaborative for immigrant justice (ccij)'s revenue is 11m - 100m

California collaborative for immigrant justice (ccij) has 11 - 50 employees.