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This year, Vermont’s immigrant communities faced escalating detention, widening enforcement, and growing threats to safety and due process. More people were detained at work, during traffic stops, and in everyday life—placing families at immediate risk and increasing the need for rapid legal intervention. In the face of this unprecedented need, your support made the difference.
Because of you, no one had to face detention or deportation alone. VAAP’s attorneys, volunteers, and partners were able to show up in moments of crisis—inside detention facilities, during medical emergencies, and on the brink of deportation—to defend people’s freedom, families, and futures. You helped stop wrongful removals, prevent people from signing away their rights, reunite families, secure asylum, and win releases from detention through bond and habeas litigation.
This fall alone, your investment made possible dozens of legal consultations, active removal defenses, detention interventions, bond hearings, and habeas actions—mobilizing nearly 100 volunteer attorneys, interpreters, and students across Vermont.
The demand continues to rise, and systemic barriers make this work more urgent than ever. But with you by our side, VAAP can continue to defend due process, dignity, and human rights—when they are most under attack.
Your support doesn’t just change individual lives. It strengthens Vermont’s commitment to fairness, accountability, and justice for all.
Thank you for standing with VAAP!
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