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.

Catholic Charities of Southern New Mexico

125 W MOUNTAIN AVE, LAS CRUCES, NM 88005-1826

Catholic Charities of Southern New Mexico is a nonprofit organization in Las Cruces, New Mexico that serves immigrants and refugees.

Catholic Charities of Southern New Mexico provides low-cost immigration legal services, mental health counseling, emergency economic assistance, financial literacy, and youth scholarships to immigrants and people in need across southern New Mexico.

Mission

To serve others and create opportunity and hope by offering assistance to people in need, advocating for human dignity and social justice, and calling all people of good will to do the same.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Citizenship: “Naturalization/Citizenship”
  • Education / youth: “Scholarships for Unhoused / Low-Income High School Students in Las Cruces, NM.”
  • Emergency / basic needs: “EMERGENCY ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE TO THE HOMELESS AND INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES WHO ARE ABOUT TO BE EVICTED FROM THEIR HOMES”
  • Family reunification: “Family Based Petitions Family Petition (I-130)”
  • Financial literacy: “FINANCIAL LITERACY PROGRAMS”
  • Interpretation / translation: “TRANSLATING DOCUMENTS FROM SPANISH TO ENGLISH”
  • Legal / immigration: “COMPREHENSIVE LOW-COST LEGAL SERVICES FOR IMMIGRANTS”
  • Mental health: “MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING SERVICES TO ADULTS AND CHILDREN WHO ARE IN CRISIS”

Languages

Services delivered in Spanish.

Website in English only.

Service area: southern New Mexico.

Federal recognition and registries

  • DOJ-recognized immigration legal provider

Contact

Founded 2004. IRS NTEE code P20. Revenue $500,000-999,999. Latest Form 990: 2022. EIN 20-1144913.

Other organizations in Las Cruces

All organizations in Las Cruces | All organizations in New Mexico

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).