Organization Overview 

Safe Passage Project (SPP) is a highly-focused nonprofit immigration legal services organization  that provides free lawyers to immigrant children facing deportation. Founded in 2013, SPP has  grown to include 60+ employees, two offices, and an annual budget of over $10 million. It  manages over 1,600 open cases a year. 

To date, SPP has supported more than 3,000 young people in NYC and Long Island. The New  York Immigration Courts, some of the busiest immigration courts in the U.S., have more than  15,000 juveniles on their dockets, many of whom are fleeing trauma in their countries of origin  such as gang violence and recruitment, abuse, and sexual assault. Immigrant children are not  afforded free legal representation by the government, regardless of their age. As a result, more  than half of immigrant children in immigration proceedings must go to...