Job o' the Day: Intern with Americans for Immigrant Justice in Miami, FL!
Americans for Immigrant Justice (AI Justice), which helps advocate for immigrants’ rights nationwide, is seeking motivated interns interested in immigration, civil rights, and criminal legal issues. Interns will assist on a project that works with a large immigration detainee population in South Florida. The focus of the project is to help provide legal representation to immigration detainees at underserved facilities. In addition, the project seeks to provide advocacy for and assistance to detainees who have suffered constitutional rights violations.
In Florida, the recent expansion of programs that allow state and local law enforcement to identify deportable immigrants has raised serious civil rights issues. AI Justice is one of the few organizations providing pro bono services at Broward Transitional Center, Florida’s largest immigration detention facility and the only one that houses immigrants with little or no criminal history. Interns will allow AI Justice to provide legal representation to a large, underserved population and to systematically identify and address civil rights violations in immigration enforcement.
This project is headed by an Equal Justice Works Fellow at AI Justice. Interns will work under the supervision of the Fellow. View the full listing on PSLawNet (login required).