Amica Center Facts
Previous Name of Amica Center
What is Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition?
Most common country of origin for DC immigrant residents.
What is El Salvador?
Most popular volunteer opportunity at Amica Center
what is document translation?
True or False: All Immigrant indivudals in detention and in removal proceedings are entitled to legal representation.
FALSE
First Latino and Spanish-speaking performer to headling the Super Bowl Halftime show as a solo act.
Who is Bad Bunny?
We confront the impact that the unjust immigration system has on our clients and communities through direct legal representation, impact litigation, education, and client-centered advocacy.
What is Amica Center's mission statement?
Percentage of DC residents who are foreign born.
What is 13-15%?
Number of active volunteers in 2025:
a) 154
b) 287
c) 302
d) 433
what is c) 302?
Names of the detention centers where our KYR team works.
What are Farmville and Caroline?
Number of U.S. residents who are immigrants (as of June 2025 according to Pew Research Center)
What is 51.9 million?
Amica Center's 3 main programs
What are detained adult program, children's team, and immigration impact lab?
Top 3 languages spoken by immigrants in the DMV (not including English)
What are Spanish, Amharic, and French?
Number of hours given by volunteers in 2025.
What are 5,600 hours?
The speed dial code for the detention hotline
What is 1686#?
Largest percentage of Immigrants in the U.S. are from this country.
What is Mexico? (22% in 2023)
Year of Amica Center's Founding
What is 1999?
As of 2023, number of U.S. born DC residents who live with at least one immigrant parent
What is over 32,000?
Any 5 Volunteer Opportunities at Amica Center
A key legal tool to challenge unlawful immigration detention, such as being held without a legal basis, being held for an unduly long period, or being subjected to impermissible detention conditions.
What are Habeas petitions?
First Latino EGOT winner (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony)
Who is Rita Moreno?
In American Gateways v. DOJ, Amica Center and it's partners successfully challenged the government's decision to take away this federally-funded program, which provides legal counsel to detained immigrants with serious mental health needs or cognitive disabilities.
In this lawsuit, a federal court judge has temporarily blocked the Trump Administration from continuing to carry out unlawful civil immigration arrests in DC.
What is Escober Molina et al v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security et al.?
Top 3 language needs for translation and interpreting in 2025.
What are (1) Spanish, (2) French, and (3) Haitian Creole?
3 main fear-based defenses to removal.
What are Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and protection under CAT (convention against torture)?
Providing a pathway to citizenship for the roughly 11 million immigrant individuals who are undocumented would boost the U.S. GDP by this amount.
What is 1.2 trillion?