Immigrant Support Atlas

Foreign-born share over time

How the immigrant share of the population shifts across the country. Press play to animate. Source: US Census ACS 5-year.

Access to immigrant-serving organizations

Spatial access by the enhanced two-step floating catchment area method (E2SFCA). Darker green = better access; orange = a service desert (people who need it, but no organization within reach); gray = no foreign-born population. Source: org locations + US Census ACS 2023.

Immigrant Policy Inclusion Index

How inclusive each state’s policies are toward immigrants, across seven domains: health coverage, language access, higher education, identification, integration & licensure, legal protection, and economic inclusion. Darker green = more inclusive; orange/red = more restrictive or limited. Click any state for its full profile.

Immigrant–Native Disparity Index

Standardized gaps between foreign-born and US-born residents (uninsured, crowded housing, rent burden, education, home internet, vehicle access, homeownership) from US Census ACS. Green = smaller gaps; red = larger gaps. This is an outcome measure, separate from the Policy map: it describes how immigrant and US-born residents differ, and is shaped by who has immigrated where (recency and composition), not by state policy alone. Click any state for its full profile.

English assimilationism

Project Implicit is a self-selected volunteer sample, not a representative survey; within each area, respondents are reweighted to the Census population by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and citizenship. Higher = less welcoming. Areas with too few respondents are left blank. See the note below for the exact survey item. Source: Project Implicit 2023-2025.

Immigrant attitudes

Project Implicit is a self-selected volunteer sample, not a representative survey; within each area, respondents are reweighted to the Census population by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and citizenship. Higher = less welcoming. Areas with too few respondents are left blank. See the note below for the exact survey item. Source: Project Implicit 2023-2025.

Aldea - the Peoples Justice Center

532 WALNUT ST, READING, PA 19601-3419

Aldea - the Peoples Justice Center is a nonprofit organization in Reading, Pennsylvania that serves immigrants and refugees.

Aldea provides free and low-cost immigration legal representation—including removal defense, humanitarian relief, family reunification, and citizenship help—to immigrants in Berks County and beyond, with dedicated programs for unaccompanied minors and Haitians.

Mission

The mission of ALDEA The Peoples Justice Center is to provide a holistic approach to meeting the multi-faceted needs of our immigrant community members, including through legal, social, educational, and medical services...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “Appeals & Federal Litigation Fighting for justice through the Board of Immigration Appeals and federal courts.”
  • Citizenship: “providing a low-cost pathway to citizenship for qualifying permanent residents”
  • Family reunification: “humanitarian relief (T, U, SIJS, VAWA, asylum), family reunification, green cards, work permits”
  • Legal / immigration: “Our attorneys represent clients before USCIS, the Immigration Courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and federal courts.”

Languages

Services delivered in Spanish, Haitian Creole.

Website offers an automatic translation widget only.

Communities served

Haitian.

Service area: Berks County, Pennsylvania, with services extending across Pennsylvania and nationally.

Federal recognition and registries

  • On EOIR’s list of free legal service providers

Contact

Founded 2017. IRS NTEE code I80. Revenue $500,000-999,999. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 81-3635849.

Other organizations in Reading

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Sources: IRS exempt-organization records, Form 990 filings, federal and network directories, and the organization's own website. Data as of October 19, 2026. Information here can change; contact the organization to confirm.

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Immigrant profiles by origin, language, and race / ethnicity

Pick a group to see its own profile: how large it is and how it lives, with the all-foreign-born and US-born averages shown for context. National estimates from US Census ACS 1-year microdata (PUMS).