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Donate to Support Our Mission-Driven Work

Pueblo Unido creates hope for and amplifies the voices of communities with vulnerable immigration status by making connections to legal, social, and Indigenous language interpretation services.

Can you make a one-time contribution or become a monthly sustaining member to support our work?

Pueblo Unido pursues high impact interventions that fill gaps in order to prevent detention and deportation, advance Indigenous language justice, and give our communities the tools they need to feel secure, achieve their goals, and thrive. We approach our work through a trauma-informed lens, and therefore prioritize interventions that we can sustain. Presently, these interventions are delivered through the following programs: 

• Legal and Social Service Navigation: Our navigators help orient community members to immigration processes and guide them to legal resources to help defend against deportation, seek release from detention as necessary, and ultimately try to obtain, maintain, or adjust lawful immigration status. Navigators also help community members access wraparound resources to ensure household stability, which is essential to supporting a strong legal defense.
• Community Engagement: The Community Engagement Department facilitates community education workshops on a variety of topics including legal rights, remedies, and resources; court proceedings and immigration documents; advocacy for detained loved ones; family preparedness; and, trauma healing. 
• The Collective of Indigenous Interpreters of Oregon (CIIO): The Collective serves as a reliable source of interpretation to address the language access barriers to legal and social services faced by Indigenous Oregonians, as well as to ensure just compensation, treatment, and opportunities for Indigenous language interpreters.

Our programs and services prioritize people with the highest risk of detention or deportation. We intentionally design our programs and services for people who speak Indigenous languages or Spanish, but we don’t turn anyone away, regardless of the language they speak or where they’re from.

What Your Donations Make Possible

Thanks to our community of donors, volunteers, clients, staff, and partners, we have served more than 15,000 individuals in 31 states across the country since our inception in April 2017.

• Through our Legal Navigation program, we have connected nearly 6,000 people to immigration legal aid.
• Through our Social Service Navigation program, we have provided financial assistance towards more than 180 rent and utility payments, and submitted more than 16,000 applications to financial assistance programs including the Oregon Worker Relief Fund, Quarantine Fund, Climate Change Fund, and Home Fund.
• Through our Community Engagement efforts, we have delivered nearly 600 workshops that provided over 5,000 individuals key information about legal rights, remedies, and resources; court proceedings and immigration documents; how to advocate for a detained loved one; how to implement a family preparedness plan; and how to process trauma.
• Through our partnership with the Collective of Indigenous Interpreters of Oregon (CIIO), we have provided Indigenous language interpretation during more than 1,000 appointments in legal, health, and community settings.

Your donations ensure that this work continues and grows.

Our Work--And Your Support--Is Needed Now More Than Ever

At a time when immigrant communities are facing escalating enforcement and uncertainty, this work is needed now more than ever. Since the second Trump administration took office, Oregonians have experienced an unprecedented level of surveillance, intimidation, and arrest by immigration officers, which has resulted in a sharp increase in the number of Oregonians detained for removal, and subsequently an increase in fear, anxiety, and demand for our services.

With specialized legal representation in acute demand, and with community members desperate to hire defense for their loved ones, scammers and other bad actors have jumped at the opportunity to take advantage of people in crisis. With constant changes to immigration policies and enforcement priorities, our communities are left struggling to understand their legal rights, relief options, available resources, and how to minimize risk and be prepared in the event that a loved one is detained. Language access gaps further compound these issues for Oregonians hailing from Indigenous communities in Mexico and Central America.

Our core programs are essential to meeting the needs of the moment: navigating community members to trustworthy attorneys and effective social services; sharing knowledge that empowers individuals to assert their rights, advocate for their families, and process their trauma; and, providing interpretation to ensure that Indigenous Oregonians are able to understand and be understood.

Pueblo Unido exists so that no one has to face these challenges alone. But the need is growing, and we can't meet it without you. Your contribution is crucial to our collective work to keep families together, protect immigrant rights, and restore human dignity.