Stand With Our Immigrant Neighbors: Pro Se Clinic Wednesdays & Court Accompaniment

Each week, volunteers with the New Sanctuary Coalition show up in two powerful ways to support immigrants navigating a hostile legal system — often without lawyers, and often alone.

Pro Se Clinic (Wednesdays)
“Pro se” means for oneself. Because immigration court is a civil system, people facing deportation are not guaranteed legal representation. At Pro Se Clinics, trained volunteers work in teams to help Friends prepare paperwork, understand their cases, and advocate for themselves with dignity and clarity.

Court Accompaniment
In courthouses across NYC, New Sanctuary Coalition volunteers walk alongside Friends at their hearings and ICE check-ins — offering information, calm presence, and visible solidarity. Sometimes we’ve met before. Sometimes we meet for the first time in the waiting room. Either way, no one faces the system alone.

Together, these two practices form one movement: paperwork and presence, preparation and protection — real people showing up so our neighbors don’t have to face the system by themselves.

Get trained. Get involved.

Sign up for Pro Se Clinics, Court Accompaniment trainings, and more:
 https://www.newsanctuarynsc.org/events