Represent
Represent
Direct Legal Representation
Pangea provides full-scope legal representation to immigrants in both detained and non-detained immigration court proceedings. Our services are low fee and free, and our clients are newcomers and long-term residents in the United States. We focus on providing representation in the area of deportation defense; approximately 80% of our clients are in deportation proceedings.
DETAINED REMOVAL DEFENSE
We represent detained immigrants in bond proceedings, removal hearings, and in encounters with ICE and asylum officials. We believe that no person should be detained for exercising their freedom to move, and are working hard with our clients, families, and our partner organizations to expose the harm immigration detention inflicts on individuals and entire communities.
non-detained REMOVAL DEFENSE
We believe that everyone has the right to move and resettle around the world with dignity and respect. That’s why we work to stop deportations in immigration court and find a way for people to remain in the U.S. with their families and loved ones.
OUR FEES
Pangea is dedicated to making high quality legal services more accessible to immigrant communities. We offer pro-bono and low-bono services for individuals in removal proceedings and those currently being held in immigrant detention.
Empower
Empower
Community Empowerment
Pangea marries high-quality legal representation with community organizing in an effort to transform the immigration system. We create space for our clients to become agents of change in their communities by connecting them with local grassroots groups and opportunities to share their stories with the public, media, and elected officials. Our goal is to educate, organize, and mobilize the approximately 500,000 undocumented immigrants living in Northern California to lead policy changes in support of a pathway to citizenship for all undocumented immigrants, and the closure of all immigration detention centers.
PAPELES PARA TODXS
Pangea’s base-building driving force, Papeles Para Todxs is organizing and mobilizing to end immigrant detention in California and win citizenship for all nationally. The group meets twice a month to cultivate leadership and organizing skills. We’re building the power of undocumented communities together.
Disability & Immigrant Justice Coalition
The DIJC works with the community to identify and propose systemic changes that address the unique needs of immigrants with disabilities, including but not limited to: making disability, healthcare resources and spaces more responsive and accessible to immigrants with disabilities and ending the detention, solitary confinement, and institutionalization of immigrants with disabilities.
THE ASYLEE LEGAL EMPOWERMENT PARTNERSHIP
ALEP trains asylum-seekers to represent themselves in court and win using their own skills, knowledge, and voice. During a series of in-person workshops, asylum applicants learn about key legal tools and concepts, experience a hearing simulation, and receive support from organizers and therapists.
Leadership & Organizing Meetings
Pangea’s Leadership Meetings are a space for and by formerly detained individuals, immigrants fighting deportation, asylum seekers and their families. Led by a core group of 30 Pangea members and former clients, the group meets monthly to cultivate leadership and organizing skills, learn restorative justice practices and host quarterly community events with the goal of ending immigrant detention and stopping deportations.
PUBLIC CAMPAIGNS
Pangea attorneys create space for community-led deportation defense strategies through public campaigns, which involve creating petitions, outreach to media, and engagement with elected officials. Public campaigns provide an avenue for our clients to speak up about the wider systemic issues that their cases embody.
COMMUNITY FORUMS
Pangea’s Community Forum Project creates a safe space for clients to openly share their experiences and common fears without feeling targeted and exposed. The project aims to end isolation, explore possible solutions to our struggles, and identify ways to come together as a community.
MIGRA-WATCH
Migra Watch is a network of neighborhood defense teams across the Bay Area and the United States that protects immigrant communities against ICE raids. Our teams employ rapid response technology to provide impacted community members with a 24/7 hotline (203-NO-MIGRA) to report raids.
healing justice bbqs
Pangea and Colibrí Collective launched an innovative four-month long Healing Justice program for members of the community who were formerly detained by ICE and their family members to come together in a held space to meet others navigating shame/stigma, grief/re-building, and trust/accountability. Participants use art to process these topics and break bread together.
Advocate
Advocate
Policy Advocacy
We recognize that laws have a direct impact on our lives. We create space for our clients and community to advocate for pro-immigrant legislation and policies at the local, state and international levels. Our advocacy is informed by and centered on the community we serve.
Art by Rini Templeton
LOCAL ADVOCACY
Pangea works with coalitions at the local level in San Francisco (FREE-SF), San Mateo (SMCCIR) and Santa Clara County (FIRE) to enact pro-immigrant legislation that protects our communities from detention and deportation.
Art by Rini Templeton
STATE & NATIONAL ADVOCACY
Pangea advocates for immigrant-friendly legislation on the state and national levels. Our priorities are led by the voices of our clients and community members.
Illustrations by Rini Templeton
INTERNATIONAL
Pangea believes that every person, including those who have crossed international borders, has the right to be treated with dignity. These human rights exist in international law, and can be found in the International Migrants Bill of Rights. Pangea uses the International Migrants Bill of Rights to engage in regional and international human rights advocacy.