CMN was co-founded by Stefanía Arteaga and Becca O’Neill in 2019. Stefanía and Becca met in 2017 doing legal advocacy work in the non-profit sector in Charlotte, NC. Together they worked to create and implement a policy limiting Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) access to the Mecklenburg County Jail, which had one of the oldest 287(g) agreements in the country. Born out of their collective understanding of the urgent unmet legal and organizing needs of community members in removal proceedings, the Carolina Migrant Network fuses legal services and community advocacy to provide holistic support for our clients and their families.
Carolina Migrant Network’s mission is to build and sustain services for people targeted by the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration (DHS). We provide compassionate and competent pro-bono legal representation. We organize with communities to disrupt the deportation pipeline/ system. We envision a world of empowered, self-determined, organized communities, free from the fear of deportation and family separation. Your donation will go towards supporting our work!