The Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (SIFI) provides pro bono legal representation to immigrants detained in the southeastern United States. By ensuring that skilled attorneys are available, at no charge, to protect the due process rights of detained immigrants, SIFI endeavors to win every meritorious deportation defense case arising out of recent and anticipated immigration enforcement actions.
The project is led by the Southern Poverty Law Center. It will begin at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, in collaboration with the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the American Immigration Council, the Innovation Law Lab and the American Immigration Representation Project. It will then be expanded to other immigrant detention centers throughout the Southeast.
For more information or to get involved, visit SIFI's website.
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Welcome to Team SIFI
Removal Defense
Understanding U.S. Immigration Framework & Key Legal Concepts
Understanding Immigration Adjudication
Understanding Immigrant Detention Authority under the INA
Understanding the Grounds of Inadmissibility
Understanding Removal Proceedings
Understanding the Grounds of Deportability
Fleeing Persecution
Asylum Overview - Module 1
Persecution - Module 2
Persecutor - Module 3
Well Founded Fear - Module 4
Political Opinion - Module 5
Particular Social Group - Module 6
Race, Religion, Nationality - Module 7
Nexus - Module 8
One Year Bar - Module 9
Discretion, Other Bars - Module 10
Credibility- Module 11
Asylum Experts - Module 12