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Stronger Together!
The Yakima Immigration Response Network (YIRN) is a Yakima County-based network of volunteers working to support immigrant communities throughout the Yakima Valley.
So many ways to Get Involved!
Advocacy and Education Efforts
Latest News
How to Stay Safe while Observing ICE Actions
While all Yakima residents, citizen and non-citizen, have the [...]
5% of People Detained By ICE Have Violent Convictions, 73% No Convictions
5% of People Detained By ICE Have Violent Convictions, 73% [...]
U.S. Bishops Issue a “Special Message” on Immigration from Plenary Assembly in Baltimore
The bishops issued a Special Message addressing their concern for [...]
How to get a suitcase of clothing to your family member before deportation
Cómo solicitar dejar una bolsa con ropa para un [...]
Donate to support YIRN
YIRN distributes Know Your Rights information to community members and handouts for trainings at no cost to participants. Your donations also help us provide humanitarian assistance to affected families! Between the Ridges is a 501(c)(3) and our fiscal sponsor [Tax ID No. 46-3102292]. YIRN volunteers organize and provide services for free, enabling 100% of donated funds to go directly to families and advocacy efforts.
Ways to Donate
Gas Cards – Our Faith Communities committee is collecting $50 gas cards for the families of detainees so they can visit their detained family member in Tacoma.
PayPal – You do not need a PayPal account to Donate Online via PayPal.
GoFundMe – YIRN’s GoFundMe page is raising money for phone and commissary funds for detainees in NW Detention Center, gas cards, initial legal consults, and other financial assistance for detainee’s families.
Our Humanitarian Assistance Committee is starting a bi-weekly news brief that will be emailed out 1-2 times a month with specific needs for families. If you’d like to receive those emails, please let us know by completing this form or emailing yakimaresponsenetwork@gmail.com and we’ll add you to the notification list.
Donate by Check
If you’d like to donate by check, please make the check payable to “Between the Ridges” and make a note on the check that the donation is for YIRN. Then, mail it to:
YIRN c/o Surkatty
101 No. 58th Ave. #5
Yakima, WA 98908
Your support is appreciated! If you have any questions, please contact us.
Thank you to our incredibly generous donors and supporters!
Yearning and YIRN
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
“The New Colossus” by American poet Emma Lazarus
Upcoming Trainings & Events
SAVE THE DATE - February 4 & 5th Immigration Enforcement in Washington: Flock Surveillance & DOL Data Sharing Hear from the Researcher who put the [...]
WAISN Rapid Response Training February 6, 2026 6:00 PM Zoom Register Get Involved Learn how to become part of our statewide network of volunteers. As [...]
Clinica Legal Ciudadania / Citizenship Legal Clinic Sabado / Saturday, Feb 7, 2026 9:00am - 1:00pm Perry Tech 2011 W. Washington Ave. Yakima, [...]
