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# Fairness Friday: California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance
- URL: https://werd.io/fairness-friday-california-immigrant-youth-justice-alliance/
- Published: 2021-08-21T02:29:08.000Z
- Updated: 2021-08-21T02:29:08.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

*I’m posting Fairness Fridays: a new community social justice organization each week. I donate to each featured organization. If you feel so inclined, please join me.*

![](https://old.werd.io/file/612064eea897541fd57acb62)

**This week, I’m donating to [the California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance](https://www.instagram.com/ciyja/?hl=en).** CIYJA is an organization run and developed by undocumented youth organizers. It describes its work as follows:

*CIYJA is a statewide immigrant youth-led alliance that focuses on placing immigrant youth in advocacy and policy delegations in order to ensure pro-immigrant policies go beyond legalization, and shed light on how the criminalization of immigrants varies based on identity.*

Its work includes pressure to divest from private prisons and to prevent deportations and family separations.

I donated. If you have the means, [I encourage you to do the same](https://www.maldef.org/donate/).

*[Photo by Peg Hunter](https://www.flickr.com/photos/43005015@N06/27444504667/).*