These are difficult times for immigrant communities, with harmful policies and practices continuing to shape people’s lives in profound ways. And in this moment, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) is working to ensure that strategic, persistent legal advocacy can deliver real and impactful wins.
After years of litigation, NWIRP and our partners in co-counsel recently reached a settlement with the federal government in our challenge to its secretive CARRP program—a system that delayed and denied immigration applications, disproportionately targeting Muslim immigrants and communities from the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa, often without explanation or recourse.
This is a significant victory.
The settlement—once approved by the court, likely at the end of June—will rescind CARRP. It reflects years of legal strategy, persistence, and the willingness by those directly impacted to persevere through an enormity of hardship.
But it’s not the end of the story.
Programs like CARRP don’t exist in isolation. They’re part of a broader system that relies on delay, detention, and other harmful tactics to control people’s lives. Challenging one piece doesn’t dismantle the whole, we know, but it creates an opening.
This kind of legal advocacy work is slow. It’s strategic. And it requires sustained collective support.
GiveBIG, Washington’s annual statewide fundraising campaign for nonprofits, begins today and runs through next Tuesday, May 5.
This is where you come in.
Your donation today would help sustain the work that makes outcomes like these possible. Because the systems that created CARRP are still with us, and the need for justice and accountability hasn’t gone away.
Thank you for making this work possible. With you and so many others on our side, we can meet the challenges of today while helping build a more just system in its place.
With care and resolve,
Malou Chávez (she/her/ella)
Executive Director
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