The Andrew Carnegie Foundation announced its annual list of “Great Immigrants, Great Americans” yesterday, recognizing 25 distinguished naturalized citizens whose contributions have strengthened America. We are excited to share that the honorees include RMIAN Founding Board Member, Hiroshi Motomura! Professor Motomura, a leading scholar of U.S. immigration and citizenship law, said “I’m honored to be part of the 2026 Class, especially at this moment. Immigrants have been part of this nation since its inception, though it is sometimes forgotten in these times. And I am a small part of a greater story that reminds us that those who come to the United States help create a stronger union. I am grateful to Andrew Carnegie Foundation for this recognition.”

This article from CPR News highlights the relief felt by immigrants and allies after SCOTUS upheld the right to birthright citizenship. Tami Goodlette, RMIAN's Vice President of Legal Programs, said the alternate decision would have sparked widespread chaos for the organization’s hundreds of clients.

“Children who would have been born to our clients here in this country would not have been citizens and that would have had a devastating effect,” Goodlette said. “And that’s not only on their families but also on hundreds of thousands of children and babies born in the United States going forward.”

Refugee Action Coalition of Colorado and Keep Families Together Coalition, including RMIAN, respond to recent Supreme Court decisions.

We welcome the U.S. Supreme Court's June 30, 2026 decision affirming birthright citizenship, but are deeply concerned about the harmful implications of two U.S. Supreme Court rulings issued on June 25, 2026, affecting asylum seekers and individuals with Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Read the full statement here.

RMIAN has an immediate opening for a full-time Litigation Senior Staff Attorney who will work within RMIAN’s Advocacy & Litigation Program.

RMIAN seeks a litigator experienced in immigration and constitutional law as well as detention issues. This role is designed for someone who has experience with civil litigation. The caseload will primarily involve habeas corpus challenges to unlawful detention and subsequent appeals as well as other civil litigation before the district court and petitions for review before the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.

RMIAN has an immediate opening for a full-time Resource Coordinator who will work within RMIAN’s Social Service Project (SSP) and will be supervised by RMIAN’s Supervising Social Worker. The Resource Coordinator is bilingual in Spanish and English, provides case management support to clients receiving legal representation from RMIAN, and supports SSP in resource development and internal organization.

RMIAN has an immediate opening for a full-time Pro Se Staff Attorney in our Detention Program to provide legal information for clients detained at the Aurora Contract Detention Facility. RMIAN’s legal orientation program is a know-your-rights program that seeks to educate and inform individuals detained at the Aurora immigration detention facility about their rights in removal proceedings, court procedures, release options, and relief from removal.

This position is meant for an attorney dedicated to equal justice for all - someone who has experience in immigration law, particularly removal defense (and preferably in a detained setting).

As a member of Colorado’s Keep Families Together coalition, RMIAN strongly condemns the recent USCIS memorandum that may require certain green card applicants to leave the country to continue their applications. This policy risks disrupting the lives and livelihoods of international students, tourists, individuals on certain temporary work visas, humanitarian parolees, certain family members of U.S. citizens, and many others by forcing them to bear burdensome travel requirements, including the potential emotional, developmental, and social toll of separation from dependents or other loved ones. Read the full statement here.

This recent piece from The Denver Post examines how fear of detention, legal uncertainty, and mounting pressure are impacting immigrants and their families across Colorado. “When we’re working with folks who are detained, the financial strain and emotional strain on the family and community is making it less likely that people will fight their case when they have a legal right to do so,” said Cindy Schlosser, a social worker who oversees the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network’s social service project.”…It’s not just the detention, but the detention without the hope of reasonable release that puts families and their loved ones who’re detained in these impossible situations to decide, ‘Should I be deported or not?’”

The Colorado Sun ran this moving and insightful opinion piece, written by an attorney who attended a RMIAN immigration training, about his experiences with immigration court and a habeas case.

As ICE enforcement increases in our communities, many more of our clients are being wrongfully detained and held in prolonged detention. RMIAN is fighting to ensure immigrants' rights are protected by utilizing its litigation expertise to bring habeas petitions before the federal court—a way to challenge this unlawful confinement. This Denver Post article covers the surge in habeas cases. As Shira Hereld, RMIAN Staff Attorney, said in the article "habeas is the only way that most folks are getting out of detention, and more folks are being both arrested and held in detention than ever before.”