Migrant Advocacy and Support
MAS promotes justice, dignity and equity by partnering on migrant-identified health, legal, and educational needs.
These are frightening and uncertain times for our migrant neighbors, with heartbreaking reports of masked federal agents raiding workplaces and homes to violently arrest, detain, and deport migrant workers. Increased immigration enforcement is separating U.S. born children from their parents, often without due process or a valid legal basis. Migrant
Advocacy and Support (MAS) partners with migrants to respond to this changing environment by:
Assisting families in completion of emergency preparedness documents to prepare for the event of one or both parents being separated from their children: • temporary guardianship • parental permission to travel, • power of attorney, and • authorization to pick up paychecks)
Helping migrant understand their rights in a changing legal environment and how to respond in an encounter with federal agents.
Trainings on “How to Speak with Children about Immigration Rights, Detentions and Family Separation” to prepare for the event of family separation.
Training volunteers to meet the needs of migrants.
Providing health, legal and educational referrals to migrants.
Ithaca, NY
Donors
Barbara Lynch MAS builds on the strengths of the former Cornell Farmworkers Program to support families whose work is essential to the continuing survival of the New York State Dairy industry, but who find themselves increasingly vulnerable and isolated ...
Karen Friedeborn It is critical to support migrant families as they are so cruelly being discriminated against at this moment in time. This program has the deep connections with the families I want to support.
Ra Ruth Because people I care about are at risk
Madeline Turner Minka Farthing-Kohl Jim Shultz