ALDEA - The People's Justice Center

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ALDEA - The People's Justice Center Aldea PJC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Reading, PA, that protects immigrant children, families, and vulnerable populations

Can you believe we're turning 10!? 🎂 🎉Celebrate this huge milestone with us at The People's Gala on October 24th!This is...
09/30/2026

Can you believe we're turning 10!? 🎂 🎉

Celebrate this huge milestone with us at The People's Gala on October 24th!

This is our chance to look back on everything we've done together over the past decade. We'll have a photography showcase, a great dinner by Chef Hector Ruiz, a keynote address, live music, and a dance floor with your name on it.

Every ticket helps us keep showing up for immigrant families in Berks County and across the state. Clients attend free. Come celebrate with us!

Friends! We are thrilled announce that Berks County native Dr. Amelia Frank-Vitale will join us as the keynote speaker f...
09/14/2026

Friends! We are thrilled announce that Berks County native Dr. Amelia Frank-Vitale will join us as the keynote speaker for The People’s Gala, celebrating Aldea’s 10th anniversary on October 24.

For ten years, Aldea has stood alongside people navigating an immigration system that too often reduces human lives to cases, numbers, and legal categories. Dr. Frank-Vitale’s work asks us to look more closely at the people behind those systems, and at the courage, creativity, and community that emerge even under extraordinary circumstances.

An Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Princeton University, Dr. Frank-Vitale has spent years studying migration, violence, and deportation in Central America and Mexico. Her research has taken her alongside people migrating across Mexico and into the lives of young Hondurans rebuilding after deportation.

Her book, "Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds", traces overlapping systems of control, from gangland borders inside San Pedro Sula to the long reach of U.S. border enforcement. It makes a hard case: deportation doesn’t stop migration. It keeps people moving. And U.S. policy is helping fuel the very “crisis” it claims to solve. Drawing on years spent accompanying migrant caravans, Dr. Frank-Vitale shows how those caravans become both protest and survival strategy, a direct response to a border regime that keeps expanding.

At The People’s Gala, she’ll bring that perspective into conversation with the work Aldea and our community have carried forward for the past decade: What does it mean to defend human dignity in a world increasingly defined by borders? And what can we learn from the people who refuse to let those borders define them?

We are honored to welcome her home to Berks County as we celebrate ten years of Aldea and imagine what the next ten can look like.

We hope to see you there!

YOU'RE INVITED! 🎉 Join us in celebrating ten years of justice, dignity, and community.Aldea warmly invites YOU to The Pe...
08/25/2026

YOU'RE INVITED! 🎉 Join us in celebrating ten years of justice, dignity, and community.

Aldea warmly invites YOU to The People's Gala, as we mark a decade of standing with immigrant families in the fight for safety and belonging. For ten years, we have fought in courtrooms, communities, and the halls of government, side by side with our neighbors, to ensure that everyone has the right to live in safety with the people they love.

Everyone who has supported us along the way has played a role in this work, and we have not forgotten a single one of you.

This celebration belongs to all of us.

Come share a meal, celebrate the families whose courage inspires this work, and honor the community whose strength has carried us every step of the way. Together we have built something powerful, and together we begin the next ten years of this fight.

Click the link to reserve your tickets!

08/20/2026

Last week our Executive Director, Bridget Cambria, joined Jacob Soboroff to discuss the end of a decades long federal contract that ensured legal representation for unaccompanied immigrant children in the United States.

These kids are survivors of abuse, trafficking, neglect, and abandonment and they do not have the right to an attorney. Now, they’re appearing in court alone and without their trusted attorneys.

Aldea remains committed to our child clients with or without federal funding. It is our obligation to protect the most vulnerable.

Watch the full interview to learn more about our work with immigrant children.

Missed Bridget's appearance on Connect with Jacob Soboroff?Check out the full interview below as Bridget and Jacob discu...
08/17/2026

Missed Bridget's appearance on Connect with Jacob Soboroff?

Check out the full interview below as Bridget and Jacob discuss how the administration cancelled a decades-long contract funding legal representation for thousands of abused, neglected, and trafficked immigrant children, and who they awarded the new contract to.

08/14/2026

Friends! Tune in TOMORROW at 11:00 AM (ET) to hear Aldea’s Executive Director, Bridget Cambria, talk with Jacob Soboroff about the loss of federal funding for thousands of immigrant youth and the ongoing threat of detention.

"Connect with Jacob Soboroff" begins at 10 AM ET on MS NOW and Aldea’s segment will be broadcast live starting at 11:00 AM.

Stream the show live through Youtube TV, Sling TV, or another TV provider. Additionally, you can listen via Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Click the link below to learn how you can tune in.

Over the past few weeks, we've witnessed something heartbreaking.Clients who arrived at the airport excited to begin wel...
07/27/2026

Over the past few weeks, we've witnessed something heartbreaking.

Clients who arrived at the airport excited to begin well-earned vacations with their families instead found themselves living one of the worst days of their lives. Rather than boarding their flights, they were apprehended by ICE through enforcement practices and surveillance technology that we are only beginning to understand.

We wish we weren't writing this. But because we care deeply about our community, we feel a responsibility to share what we're seeing.

We strongly urge immigrants to avoid air travel whenever possible. If travel is unavoidable, please consult your immigration attorney beforehand and make an emergency plan with your loved ones.

To everyone who has reached out with concern, support, and solidarity: thank you. Your kindness reminds our immigrant neighbors that they are not alone.

Please stay safe. 💙

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En las últimas semanas, hemos sido testigos de algo desgarrador.

Clientes que llegaron al aeropuerto con la ilusión de comenzar unas vacaciones bien merecidas junto a sus familias terminaron viviendo uno de los peores días de sus vidas. En lugar de abordar su vuelo, fueron detenidos por ICE mediante prácticas de vigilancia y control que apenas estamos comenzando a comprender.

Nos duele tener que compartir este mensaje. Pero porque nos importa profundamente nuestra comunidad, sentimos la responsabilidad de informar lo que estamos viendo.

Recomendamos enfáticamente a todos los inmigrantes evitar los viajes por avión siempre que sea posible. Si el viaje es inevitable, consulte con su abogado de inmigración antes de viajar y prepare un plan de emergencia con sus seres queridos.

A todas las personas que nos han brindado su apoyo, solidaridad y preocupación: gracias. Su bondad les recuerda a nuestros vecinos inmigrantes que no están solos.

Por favor, cuídense. 💙

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Nan dènye kèk semèn ki sot pase yo, nou wè yon bagay ki vrèman fè nou mal.

Kliyan ki te rive nan ayewopò a ak kè kontan pou yo te kòmanse vakans yo te byen merite ansanm ak fanmi yo, olye yo monte nan avyon an, yo te arete pa ICE atravè metòd siveyans ak aplikasyon lalwa nou fèk kòmanse konprann.

Sa fè nou mal pou nou oblije pataje mesaj sa a. Men paske nou pran swen kominote nou an anpil, nou santi se responsabilite nou pou fè moun konnen sa n ap wè.

Nou ankouraje tout imigran evite vwayaje pa avyon chak fwa sa posib. Si vwayaj la pa ka evite, pale ak avoka imigrasyon ou anvan ou vwayaje epi prepare yon plan ijans ak fanmi ou.

Pou tout moun ki te montre sipò yo, solidarite yo, ak enkyetid yo: mèsi. Jantiyès nou fè vwazen imigran nou yo sonje yo pa poukont yo.

Tanpri, pran prekosyon. 💙

Address

532 Walnut Street
Reading, PA

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

(484) 877-8002

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