Colorado Legislature Considers a $2 Million Annual Fund for Legal Aid Organizations

RMIAN is part of a coalition with Colorado Legal Services, Colorado Center on Law and Policy, the Community Economic Defense Project, and others to support legislation to provide greater access to justice through more funding for legal service organizations in Colorado.

Please see this article in Law Week Colorado

Mekela Goehring, executive director of the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network, wrote in an email to Law Week that RMIAN’s staff attorneys represented 829 individuals in Colorado in their immigration cases. The cases included children who had been abused or neglected, survivors of human trafficking, asylum seekers and more. 

“But we had to turn away the vast majority of individuals who reached out to us for help,” wrote Goehring. “With additional funding, there is so much more that we could do.”