About Us
We provide access to low cost and no cost ethical, excellent legal support. We also help bridge the “trust gap” that impacts people’s willingness to engage the robust services available in our valley. And we work to dismantle impediments to civic engagement and human flourishing.
—Our Story —
Imagine being pulled over for snow on your license plate after dropping your children off at school and then never coming home again. Imagine being held in a detention center for months due to a clerical error in your asylum application but not having the financial resources to hire a lawyer to plead your case. Imagine having an immigration attorney who demands thousands of dollars in payment and then disappears after you wire the funds. Imagine sitting in a detention cell in another state while your family struggles to make ends meet during a pandemic.
Many of our local families don’t have to imagine this. They are living it.
National and local policies and procedures that disproportionately affect our immigrant friends and neighbors are a mandate for us in the Wood River Valley to better support Latino/LatinX/Hispanic members of our community. The Alliance of Idaho has responded to that mandate with bold, community-building, justice-seeking action.
—Our Mission —
The Alliance of Idaho protects the human rights of immigrants and their families. Our goal is to build safe, just, and welcoming communities for all.
—Our Vision —
Immigrants are part of our national fabric, bringing energy, skills, values, and vision that benefit all Americans. The Alliance works toward building a community that supports fairness, equity, and justice for immigrants and advances a prosperous future for all. We envision a society where human rights are guaranteed, all people have the right to migrate, full civic participation is supported, and everyone, including the most vulnerable, can flourish.
—Our Core Values —
The Alliance of Idaho Believes:
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Listening to the experiences and expertise of the most vulnerable among us will show us what’s needed; and
Dismantling barriers to opportunity and full civic participation will benefit all of us.
—Our Work —
We Protects the Human Rights of Immigrants By:
Organizing opportunities for education, outreach, and advocacy; and
Centering the voices, insights, leadership, and needs of our immigrant neighbors.
Diverse communities are stronger when we take care of each other;
Immigrant rights are human rights;
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Dismantling systemic racism in our community;
Providing access to low-cost or no-cost legal services;