Refugee Children at the U.S. Border

KIND was founded to provide quality and compassionate pro bono legal representation and protection of basic human rights for unaccompanied refugee and immigrant children in the United States. KIND is the leading organization protecting children who enter the US immigration system alone and strives to ensure that no such child is without a legal advocate. KIND also assists in safe repatriation to the child's home country or safe integration into the U.S. as appropriate and works to shift both the public conversation and policy in a sustainable and humane direction.

The Florence Immigration and Refugee Rights Project is a nonprofit organization providing free legal services to men, women, and unaccompanied children detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Arizona. Although the federal government provides public defenders for indigent criminal defendants, it does not provide attorneys for people in immigration removal proceedings. As a result, an estimated 86 percent of immigrant detainees go unrepresented due to poverty. The Florence Project strives to address this inequity through direct service, partnerships with the community, and advocacy and outreach efforts.