Cambridge Commission on Immigrant Rights and Citizenship
About
The Cambridge Commission on Immigrant Rights and Citizenship is a city department that welcomes, informs, connects and supports the city’s immigrant community. It includes 11 volunteer commissioners who are immigrants themselves or have experience serving immigrant communities. Staff help residents reach local services and resources, offer a guide for newly arrived individuals and families, and provide information on reporting discrimination based on national origin, race and other protected classes.
An Immigrant Services Liaison meets regularly with service providers, immigrant groups and individuals across the city. The commission arranges Know Your Rights trainings led by immigration attorneys from groups such as MIRA, the PAIR Project and De Novo Center for Justice and Healing, and it points residents to free, confidential legal help. Its work builds on the city’s Welcoming Community Ordinance, passed in 2020.
What to Know
- Know Your Rights red cards are available in Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Spanish and Somali.
- Red cards can be picked up at trainings or the commission office, or requested by mail.
- The commission has put out a call for volunteer attorneys.
- Bystander intervention training slides are offered in English, Spanish and Urdu.
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