Who We Support
Family Separation Response
Together & Free was one of the first organizations to swiftly take action by locating families, advocating for their release from detention and facilitating reunification.
What started as helping a couple hundred separated families in the Rio Grande Valley has bloomed into an effort that has helped over a thousand families.
As a critical partner in developing the Taskforce’s Family Reunification Program, we have participated in the reunification of hundreds of families who need access to flights, housing, food, legal assistance and case management services.
Borderwork
We work with vulnerable populations at the border to tell their stories and advocate for more access.
We have coordinated with partners at the border to provide direct support to families still stuck in Mexico and continue case management services to those families once they reach the United States.
We provided case management services, legal support and supplies to families stuck under MPP and Title 42 in the camps and in shelters that we partnered with in Matamoros.
Since the Asylum Ban began we have provided case management services and direct support to over a hundred indigenous Hondurans and Nicaraguans stuck in Matamoros, Reynosa and Tijuana.
To learn more about this effort read about our Climate Asylum work. We also work to document human rights and legal violations at the border to help with federal litigation and advocacy efforts.
Climate Change & Migration
In partnership with the National Immigration Project (NIPNLG), we work with indigenous populations at the border and in the United States who are seeking asylum due to the intersection of land dispossession by violent non-state actors (link to Carnegie) and severe weather patterns caused by climate change in their areas.
As governments grow more unable to govern due to climate instability some of the most remote and indigenous areas have become extremely vulnerable, Together & Free and the National Immigration Project are leading the national effort to build a framework for asylum for indigenous migrants based on climate change.