Al Otro Lado is a bi-national advocacy and legal aid organization serving migrants, refugees and deportees in the United States and Mexico.
Al Otro Lado leverages vital partnerships and engages volunteers to increase capacity and help build a broad-based immigrant justice movement. Their approach is multidisciplinary, client-centered, and trauma-informed, combining fierce legal advocacy with holistic support. The clients they serve include medically vulnerable and disabled migrants, people in detention, and all families who have been separated by unjust US immigration policies. Al Otro Lado conducts human rights monitoring in immigration prisons and at the border, informing their impact litigation and policy advocacy strategies with a focus on dismantling systems of oppression.