Mission
The Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition strives to ensure equal justice for all immigrant adults and children at risk of detention and deportation in the Capital region area and beyond through direct legal representation, know your rights presentations, impact litigation, advocacy, and the enlistment and training of attorneys to defend immigrants
Ruling year
1999
Executive Director
Kathryn M Doan
Main address
1025 Connecticut Avenue NW Suite 701
Washington, DC 20036 USA
EIN
52-2141497
NTEE code
Civil Rights, Social Action, and Advocacy N.E.C. (R99)
Community Coalitions (S21)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Detained Adult Program
CAIR Coalition staff visit all Maryland and Virginia immigration detention centers and provide the following services to detained adults:
Group Orientations: We provie detained immigrants useful information about their basic rights in Immigration Court, the deportation process, and different defenses against deportation.
Individual Orientations: Staff members and volunteers conduct confidential individual intakes with any unrepresented detained immigrant in their preferred language. We ask people questions to get a sense of their individual story and help them learn about how immigration law may apply to their case.
Connections with Pro Bono Attorneys: If detained immigrants cannot afford an attorney and qualify for a defense against deportation, we will try to connect them with a pro bono attorney to represent them in applying for relief from detention and removal.
Provide Pro Se (self-representation) Assistance: If a detained immigrant cannot afford an attorney and we cannot connect them with a pro bono attorney, we will teach them how to represent themselves.
Send Volunteers to Credible or Reasonable Fear Interviews: We can send volunteers to observe credible and reasonable fear interviews conducted by the local asylum office. These interviews constitute the first step that an arriving asylum seeker takes toward securing protection and safety in the United States.
Detained Children's Program
Our services include “Know Your Rights” presentations, individual consultations, and accompanying children to their first immigration court hearing in Arlington, Virginia, or Baltimore, Maryland. We also provide direct representation in removal proceedings to children seeking repatriation, children reunifying from ORR programs in Virginia with family members in Maryland, DC, and Virginia, and to children facing prolonged detention. We serve children through a combination of in-house representation and pro bono placement with local law firms.
We provide legal referrals for children reunifying outside of our local area, post-18 planning services, and social services referrals. In addition, we also provide backpacks to unaccompanied children through the Safe Travels Backpack program and regularly participate in presentations in the community on immigration options for children. Our staff also has a practice manual on representing unaccompanied children which can be found here
Immigration Impact Lab
The Immigration Impact Lab is CAIR Coalition’s first concerted appellate impact litigation project. Through impact cases in our Lab, we respond proactively to these injustices via appeals on issues that have the potential to improve the law for broad groups of immigrants
Where we work
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of immigrant children and adults who were provided with direct legal representation in court.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Immigrants and migrants
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Immigrants in detention with attorneys are 3.5 times more likely to be granted bond and up to 10.5 times more likely to establiahs a right to remain in the U.S. than those without representation.
Number of immigrant children and adults who received Know Your Rights presentations.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Immigrants and migrants
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of clients referred to other services as part of their support strategy
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
CAIR Coalition's Social Services Program endeavors to provide a holistic model of service that addresses our client's legal, as well as social services needs.
Number of Detention Hotline calls answered.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Our free Detention Hotline helps connect immigrants in detention with CAIR Coalition staff and other legal service providers.
Number of pro bono hours contributed
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
CAIR Coalition partners with law firms, corporate legal departments, and law school clinics to expand our reach and provide tens of thousands of hours of free legal assistance to immigrants.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition is aiming to ensure equal justice for all immigrant men, women, and children at risk of detention and deportation in the DC metropolitan area and beyond.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Our strategies for ensuring equal justice for all immigrant men, women, and children include direct legal representation of detained immigrant men, women and children, know your rights presentations, impact and advocacy work, and the training of attorneys defending immigrants in the immigration and criminal justice arenas.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Having highly skilled attorneys and support staff in the field of immigration law and detention work as well as support from our pro bono partners.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
CAIR Coalition is continuing our working to increase the number of individuals we are able to provide with pro bono legal representation while also working to decrease the number of non-citizens that enter the immigration system.
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Capital Area Immigrants' Rights (CAIR) Coalition
Board of directorsas of 05/23/2023
Andrew Genz, Esq.
Robert R. Lawrence, Esq.
Freddie Mac
Nadeam Elshami
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
Daniel s. Blynn, Esq.
Steptoe & Johnson
Himedes V. Chicas, Esq.
Jezic & Moyse, LLC
Robert Nicholas, Esq.
Tracy Roman, Esq.
Crowell & Moring LLP
Vincent C. van Panhuys, Esq.
Caterpillar
Jonathan M. Fee, Esq.
Alston & Bird LLP
Karen T. Grisez, Esq.
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
David Friedland, Esq.
Beveridge & Diamond PC
Sharita Gruberg, Esq.
Center for American Progress
Brendan Carroll, Esq.
Alston & Bird LLP
Sheena Pegarido
LINK Strategic Partners
Henry Liu, Esq.
Covington & Burling
Lee Neel Davis, Esq.
Baker Botts
Margaret Daum
Ford Motor Company
Lynne Cripe, PhD
Konterra Group
Deeona R Gaskin, Esq.
Sidley Austin LLP
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Board orientation and education
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CEO oversight
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Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? No -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? No -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
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Equity strategies
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- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
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