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“I don’t know what they look like, but they know The hotline also lets detained immigrants know
Feeling Isolated and Forgotten, Immigrants in
my voice, and I know theirs,” Mindy shared. “I they’re not alone. We provide a sympathetic ear
can sense relief in their voice when I pick up the as they share their struggles. We listen to their
Detention Find a Lifeline During the Pandemic phone.” concerns and advocate alongside our clients to
blow the whistle on inhumane conditions inside
In addition to the fear and desperation people these facilities.
were experiencing because of the isolation of being
When COVID-19 hit, Florence Project staff were forced to pivot immediately to provide our free,
detained during a global pandemic, many expressed Thanks to your generosity, we were able to quickly
high-quality legal services remotely to people in detention. While providing legal services via phone
feeling lost and confused about their cases; some adapt during the global pandemic, providing high-
or video-teleconference is far from ideal, we had no other choice during a deadly global pandemic.
didn’t understand why they were detained or what quality legal services remotely, a lifeline to clients
was happening. The hotline has proved vital in during the COVID-19 pandemic.
helping people understand their legal options and
Our team scrambled to set up a free telephone Many of the calls we receive on the hotline are
making sure they have the resources they need to
hotline for people in immigration detention in extremely difficult to hear, especially day after day,
advocate for themselves.
Arizona, and for over a year now, members of our when we often feel like we can do so little to help.
Detention Action & Response Team (DART) have People who call us from immigration detention are
In 2020, the Florence Project served over 7,000 people:
been fielding calls on a daily basis, rotating to make processing trauma that they experienced in their
sure there is always someone available to pick up home countries, during their journeys to the United
the phone during designated hotline hours. The States, or trauma from being separated from their
hotline has been a critical way we can provide legal loved ones. They’re also living through a traumatizing
services and connect with people in ICE detention experience, isolated in detention centers that have
during this crisis. become COVID-19 hotspots.
“We are the frontline workers,” Mindy Butler- A lot of the people who called us over the past year Our Children’s Program Our Social Services Team
Christensen, a DART attorney, reflected. “When had medical conditions and were worried about provided legal services to served 529 people and safely
there’s a crisis, clients reach out, hoping that becoming ill with coronavirus in the crowded “pods” 2,457 unaccompanied children, conducted an estimated 280 to
we’re able to answer. And I believe we have.” or “tanques” where people can be held for months including full legal representation 300 emergency supply and food
to 299 children, a 15% increase drops during the pandemic.
or even years while fighting their immigration case.
over 2019.
The experience was harrowing for those who didn’t
become infected with COVID-19 or don’t have pre-
existing medical conditions as well.
Our Adult Program provided
People often told us that they have been locked up
legal services to 3,672 adults,
in their cells for longer periods of time during the Our Advocacy Team participated
including full legal representation
pandemic, and that there’s extremely limited time in 11 habeas lawsuits. The
to 236 adults, a 21% increase
to make calls, take showers, or send and receive Florence Project Adult Program
over 2019. We also won more
also supported the releases of
mail. Active outbreaks meant that people were cases, placed more cases with
354 individuals from detention.
regularly put into quarantine and constantly fearful pro bono attorneys, and filed
of becoming sick. more appeals.
One such client, who actually contracted COVID-19
in detention, spent fourteen days in isolation,
dangerously ill and very much alone. “I had to fight Our Border Action Team
against COVID-19, but I also had to fight the provided 570 individual The Florence Project served
depression, fear, and loneliness that grew worse consultations with people at the people from 67 countries, and
each day.” Kino Border Initiative migrant aid our clients spoke a combined
center in Nogales, Sonora, up 31 languages!
Every time we picked up the phone, we heard details 47% from 2019.
Florence Project Staff Attorney Camilo Rodriguez
serves clients through a free detention center hotline. of the crushing reality of life in detention.
THE FLORENCE PROJECT 3
with a Florence Project attorney who she described Belinda misses helping people feel confident in
as “a light in my life.” Liz Bradley told Belinda about their appearance. When she was a child, she didn’t
her rights and what types of relief she might qualify for always feel confident, which she relates to her
under immigration law. “Super Chica” fandom.
“It meant a lot to realize there are citizens of this “Wonder Woman is my favorite. Perhaps because my
country that support me,” Belinda says. “Liz told me childhood wasn’t pretty, I want to recover what I never
she would fight for me. She looked at my case and felt by watching these types of films.”
told me, ‘We’re going to do everything possible to
help you.’ Despite the dangers faced by transgender women in
MEET BELINDA
Mexico, Belinda can still be deported. She remains
“I thought to myself, ‘I’m going to get out of resilient and thanks the Florence Project attorneys,
here.’ I’ve felt better ever since the first day we legal assistants, social workers, and supporters for
met and she said, ‘I’m your attorney. I work for their vigorous support.
the Florence Project.’”
“All those I’ve met have given me lots of
Belinda walks through her favorite park in Phoenix, isolated and trapped. “They call it ‘the hole,’” Belinda After six months in detention, Belinda was released. understanding,” she says. “It lifted me out of
a community she has called home for many years. recalls. “I was crying and asking God to get me out of But her case remains open, and the Florence Project loneliness, because I was so lonely, not seeing
She looks pensive while pausing on a footbridge, there. I figured they would send me to my country. Not continues to fight for her in court. anyone who was close to me. I was alone in a situation
and she smiles by a tree that is not native to once did I think I would be like I am now, outside.” that I’d never been in. The Florence Project gave me
Arizona, but with care has thrived here, nonetheless. Belinda now works as a custodian. She still cuts her confidence, peace of mind, and so much strength
Belinda struggled with the uncertainty about how long friends’ hair and takes pride in the fact that during her inside. I’ve believed in them since that moment, and
“I love superhero movies, and I wished I had a she would be detained. “For your sanity, you have to years at the salon, she retained some customers from I’m here, look, talking to you now.”
superpower in certain moments of my life,” Belinda know those facts,” she says. Over time, Belinda’s panic when they were babies until they were teenagers.
says. “All I have is my voice.” She hopes to raise and sorrow transformed into numb despair.
awareness for what it’s like to be detained by
immigration authorities. “That’s my superpower.” “When you’re detained, what you feel is immense
sadness. After feeling this great sadness, there’s a
Several years ago, Belinda worked as a hairstylist in great loneliness. You suffer depression,” Belinda
Casa Grande, Arizona, until one day, an illness explains. “Eventually, it’s like being submerged in a
overwhelmed her on a night out with friends. Someone pool up to your head. You don’t have many thoughts.
called an ambulance, and the emergency escalated The few thoughts you do have, realistically, you can’t
into a crisis when law enforcement responded. Belinda use because you’re locked up. You bury your feelings
was placed in immigration removal proceedings in your body and mind, and that makes you very sick.”
because she is a noncitizen.
Belinda missed being around her loved ones; she
“I believe all humans deserve respect, whether we’re migrated to the U.S. with her family many years ago.
trans, gay, men, women—we’re human beings,” The minimal access to sunlight, the cold air-conditioned
Belinda says. She experienced verbal abuse from temperature, and mistreatment from guards also
facility guards, she says. As a transgender woman, affected her.
Belinda felt unsafe incarcerated in the men’s facility
and at one point she was assaulted. Allegedly for her She passed her time “in tears,” but hid her anguish
protection, Belinda was placed in solitary confinement. inside. “I don’t like to be one of those people that
Transgender women are often put into segregation, shows I’m sad. I cried on the inside. Then when I laid
punishing them rather than the people who victimize down, I let myself cry. At times I didn’t sleep because
or harass them. I’d been crying. These months, for me, were hard.”
Suddenly, the sensitive woman whose favorite activity Belinda fantasized that a superhero would rescue her.
was to chat with customers at the salon found herself Empowerment came instead when she connected
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After testing negative for COVID-19, this family smiled get the blockbuster decision we may have hoped Our Children’s Program formed a rapid response
with their Florence Project advocates Alex Miller (left) for, we celebrate the victory of both the initial ruling team to immediately intervene when we received
and Chelsea Sachau (right) in Tucson, Arizona. about the unconstitutionality of the conditions and reports of children held in Arizona hotels, an
the release of 21 clients. unregulated shadow detention system formed to
enforce the border closure against minors. When
When people detained in La Palma and Eloy we learned about this dangerous practice, our
detention facilities blew the whistle on the abhorrent Children’s Program immediately established a
conditions during the height of the COVID-19 rotation of “on-call” attorneys and legal assistants
outbreak, we worked with national media outlets to who were able to drop everything and intervene
share the letters they sent begging for help. in a child’s case, to ensure they had access to legal
counsel. We advocated for children to be removed
“This place is a concentration camp where we can from these unlawful rapid expulsion proceedings
only wait for the worst,” reads one letter. “We’re and be instead placed in traditional immigration
begging you for help because this is a life-or-death proceedings, while in the custody of the Office of
situation,” reads another. Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
Our Advocacy Team also coordinated with teams Our Adult Program filed countless humanitarian
across the Florence Project to submit comments parole requests and habeas petitions to secure
opposing proposed rules that sought to further releases for adults who were detained in ICE
decimate access to asylum and due process in our facilities that were proving to be COVID-19
immigration system, including one that would have hotspots. In addition to fighting for clients’ release,
rendered virtually all applicants ineligible for asylum. we established a legal help hotline and continued
to provide legal orientation presentations and legal
However, advocacy at the Florence Project goes representation remotely throughout the pandemic.
even deeper than the work of our Advocacy Team. We secured release from immigration detention
for over 160 people and assisted countless others
Our Border Action Team continues advocating in navigating the system and advocating for their
tirelessly for the end of dangerous, cruel policies own release.
Advocacy During a Global Pandemic like the border closure under Title 42 and the
Migrant Protection Protocols, as well as for Our Social Services Team safely completed over
countless individuals impacted by these policies. 280 supply drops to clients, including emergency
2020 brought dramatic changes to the world at large and to the Florence Project. In January, the food bags, basic hygiene supplies, and necessities
Florence Project formed an Advocacy Team, bringing together our legal director, two attorneys, a for families such as diapers. Florence Project social
Title 42 is a provision through which people
legal assistant, and the communications manager to focus on legal and legislative advocacy, impact workers also supported many requests for release
seeking safety in the U.S. are immediately
litigation, media, and communications campaigns, amplifying the important everyday work of our from detention with travel and lodging plans and
expelled to Mexico or their country of origin,
legal and social services teams. advocated for at least 20 children to be released
under the guise of a public health measure. on their own recognizance on their 18th birthdays
Lawyers and public health experts alike have instead of being transferred to adult detention.
called for this dangerous and unjust policy to
Throughout the year, the Advocacy Team demanding the release of medically vulnerable be revoked. Advocacy at the Florence Project during the global
collaborated with other teams at the Florence people from immigration detention. We filed a pandemic, and in the face of unrelenting attacks on
Project, partner organizations, and pro bono second lawsuit in June. In the first case, the judge the asylum system, took many forms and was a true
attorneys to expose the dismal conditions in ICE ruled that the conditions of confinement violated team effort. We’re so grateful for each and every
The Migrant Protection Protocols (also known
detention that our clients reported during the the constitution and gave ICE the opportunity to member of our team, including you, our supporters,
as “Remain in Mexico”) were a Trump-era
COVID-19 pandemic and to advocate for their remedy the situation, and the last client was released for this tireless advocacy in partnership with the
policy that essentially blocked access to asylum
safety and human rights. before the judge issued any subsequent ruling. In people we serve.
for all those seeking safety in the U.S. and
the second case, our clients were released before
forced them to wait in dangerous conditions in
In April, we joined the law firm Perkins Coie, the ACLU, a ruling could be made. This type of advocacy was
Mexico for their asylum claims to be resolved.
and the ACLU of Arizona to sue the government, a first for the Florence Project and while we did not
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MEET
The Florence Project Children’s Program serves assisted her with the daunting application process and
many of its young clients for several years. Seeing represented her in both Arizona state juvenile court
SONIA
them grow up and pursue their dreams is incredibly and immigration court.
rewarding, and we want to share that joy with you.
Sonia migrated from Guatemala at age 16 and now, “I had never been to court before. I was very worried,
at 22-years-old, she has finally received her Legal thinking they wanted to deport me to Guatemala, and
Permanent Residency! because everyone was a stranger,” Sonia recalls. “But
there was an interpreter and they treated me well, as
Standing with Hugo Rodriguez, one of eight Florence did the judge and the Florence Project lawyers who
Project advocates to assist her over the years, Sonia were with me. They did everything possible to win
expressed thanks and celebrated the impact the Green my case.”
Card will have on her life, and her baby’s.
“I trusted the Florence Project a lot, and this
Sonia is pregnant. Her first child is due soon. As a is the result of the work of all those who
Legal Permanent Resident, Sonia won’t have to fear supported me.”
being separated and removed from him and his father.
A stressful 2020 ended with new beginnings for Sonia, Florence Project Legal Assistant Ana Maria Miranda
both in her legal status and now with motherhood on says Sonia was always in a joyful mood when they
the horizon. Sonia and her partner live in the Phoenix spoke, even though she knew that she had a long
community and are thrilled for the security the Legal road ahead of her: “Having Legal Permanent Resident
Permanent Residency provides them as a family. status here in the U.S., Sonia can now chase her goals
and dreams. She can live in the U.S. with less fear and
“She stressed a lot,” Hugo says regarding the final anxiety than before. I am ecstatic for Sonia and what
steps of Sonia’s adjustment of status. “When we got her future holds.”
her approval, she choked up because of what it means
for her to be able to stay with her child.” Back in 2016, when the Florence Project took on Sonia’s
case, work permits were quickly granted for young
The Florence Project first connected with Sonia in migrants pursuing the Special Immigrant Juvenile
2016, shortly after her release from a children’s shelter Status visa. The work permit helped immensely in
in Texas. She had moved in with a family member in lifting Sonia’s spirits and giving her confidence in the
Phoenix. Having fled extreme neglect in Guatemala, immigration process. Sadly, due to current backlogs,
she was eligible for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status it can now take several years to obtain work permits,
(SIJS). The Florence Project Children’s Program making life difficult for those with pending applications.
Hugo Rodriguez, a Florence Project DOJ
Accredited Representative, stands behind his
client Sonia.
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The Future of Immigration
Is in Your Hands
You can make a gift that will strengthen the future
of the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights
Project and protect our mission to provide free
legal and social services to immigrants in Arizona
by making plans for the organization in your will
or estate plan.
A planned gift as part of
your estate:
• Is easy to arrange—a simple paragraph added
to your will is all it takes.
• Preserves your savings and cash flow.
• Can be changed or revoked as needed.
• Allows you to be far more generous than you
ever thought possible.
• Costs you nothing during your lifetime.
You can also:
Sonia currently works for a company that packages What seemed most foreign at the time was the way
• Make the Florence Project a beneficiary of your
jellies and syrups, and recently she was promoted from strangers room together to afford housing in the U.S.
life insurance policy by simply requesting a form
the assembly line to a quality control position. She “In Guatemala, you live in a house with your parents
from your insurance company and filing it.
intends to continue her education soon to improve her or your kids, but here in the United States, I’ve seen
English with hopes of working in an office someday people live together that barely know each other, • Contribute some or all of your IRA. If you are
as a receptionist. Sonia enjoys conversing with people because they’re renting a room. That seemed odd 70.5 years of age or older, you can make a
and helping others in a bilingual environment. to me.” qualified charitable distribution (QCD) from
your IRA.
Hugo believes she will succeed: “She’s one of the most Sonia has proved clever and resilient throughout her
attentive clients I’ve worked with.” Ana Maria also journey and is now adjusting to pregnancy. “No one is
mentions that Sonia “was very responsible about her ever truly ready to be pregnant,” she admits. “It feels Interested?
legal case and attentive to anything we needed from strange at times. It’s something new for me that I’m Contact Anthony Pelino, Mission Engagement Manager
her. I can’t wait to see what her future holds.” experiencing day by day and I’m trying to do well.” (602) 795-7288 | apelino@firrp.org
Upon reaching this milestone, Sonia reflected on her “I want the best education for my son,” Sonia adds, Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project
first months adapting to life in Phoenix. The hardest “and that he has great opportunities in his life, and P.O. Box 86299 | Tucson, AZ 85754 | (520) 777-5600
part was getting to know the city -- recognizing the that when he grows up, he can become a doctor, or EIN: 86-0658103 | www.firrp.org
streets and avenues, finding a pharmacy and a whatever he wants.”
supermarket, learning the bus system.
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2020 Financials
Byrd-Borland Foundation Steele Foundation, Inc.
Child Welfare Fund Tawingo Fund Program Thanks to your generosity, the Florence Project has been able to build a reserve to sustain
Community Foundation for Southern Texas Access to Justice Foundation The Walt Disney Company our growth, handle the drastic increase in detention and the COVID-19 pandemic, and to
Arizona The Donnelley Foundation Foundation strategically respond to further attacks on immigrants’ rights. As always, we will put every 1%
Thrivent Financial Foundation dollar available toward meeting the needs of detained immigrants. Thank you for joining us
Dunn Family Charitable Foundation The Endeavor Foundation 25%
VMware Foundation in defending due process and human rights!
Emanuel & Anna Weinstein The Global Whole Being Fund of RSF
Foundation Social Finance Walton Enterprises
Feldman Family Foundation REVENUE
The Greenwall Foundation Contracted Legal Services: $8,956,492 56%
Foundation Beyond Belief Individual Contributions: $2,996,584 18% 56%
The Gumbo Foundation
Revenue Foundations: $3,936,517 25% 18%
Frankel Family Foundation The Lynn Stern and Jeremy Lang
Other: $107,783 1%
Freidberg Family Foundation Family Foundation Total: $15,997,377
FWD.us Education Fund The Marilyn & Bob Laurie Foundation,
Gerson Family Foundation Inc.
Program Services: $11,129,958 86% 6%
Harold K. Raisler Foundation The McCutcheon Foundation Operating Costs: $1,017,486 8% 8%
Expenses
Hill Snowdon Foundation The Morningstar Foundation Fundraising: $753,274 6%
Hispanics in Philanthropy The Rudolph J. and Daphne A. Total: $12,900,718
Holder Family Foundation Munzer Foundation EXPENSES
Howard G. Buffett Foundation The Smith Family Foundation Inc Total Net Assets Beginning of 2020: $ 13,149,670
HS Lopez Family Foundation The University of Arizona Foundation Temporarily Restricted by Donor: $3,622,641
Assets
Temporarily Restricted by Board: $6,100,000
Isabel Allende Foundation Troper Wojcicki Foundation Ending Assets for 2020: $ 16,246,329 86%
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Our new booklet, “Together: The Florence Project’s Response to the Family
Separation Crisis” is available now at firrp.org/familyseparation.
Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project
Phoenix | Florence | Tucson
P.O. Box 86299 | Tucson, AZ 85754
(520) 777-5600 | www.firrp.org | firrp@firrp.org
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