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.

Dona Ana County Colonias Development Council

1050 MONTE VISTA AVE, LAS CRUCES, NM 88001-5626

Dona Ana County Colonias Development Council is a nonprofit organization in Las Cruces, New Mexico that serves immigrants and refugees.

Serves immigrant and Latino families in the colonias of Doña Ana County, New Mexico with citizenship classes, immigration legal services, promotora-led family education, early childhood education and afterschool programs, affordable housing, and community organizing/advocacy.

Mission

TO PROMOTE GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING IN THE COLONIA DESIGNATED COMMUNITIES; TO PROMOTE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SELF SUFFICIENCY THROUGH ADVOCACY, COLLABORATION AND FACILITATION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ACCESS TO SAFE, DECENT AND SANITARY HOUSING IN THE COLONIAS; TO DEVELOP MULTI ISSUE, SELF HELP COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS TO RESPOND TO COMMON NEEDS; TO CREATE A COALITION AMONG COLONIAS COMMUNITIES BY PROVIDING LEADERSHIP TRAINING, ORGANIZING CAPACITY AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO EXISTING COLONIAS AND FUTURE COLONIA ORGANIZATIONS; AND TO ADVOCATE FOR MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS ON ISSUES SUCH AS FUNDING AND POLICIES RELATED TO COLONIAS AT THE COUNTY, STATE, AND FEDERAL LEVELS.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “TO ADVOCATE FOR MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS ON ISSUES SUCH AS FUNDING AND POLICIES RELATED TO COLONIAS AT THE COUNTY, STATE, AND FEDERAL LEVELS”
  • Childcare: “PROVIDED CHILD CARE SERVICES”
  • Citizenship: “WE HAVE CONTINUED TO OFFER CITIZENSHIP CLASSES THROUGHOUT THE DONA ANA COUNTY”
  • Civic engagement: “through civic engagement activities for colonia residents”
  • Education / youth: “AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMMING”
  • Health education
  • Housing
  • Legal / immigration: “THE LEGAL IMMIGRATION SERVICES OFFICES RECEIVES THOUSANDS OF WALK-IN INQUIRIES”

Languages

Services delivered in Spanish.

Website offers an automatic translation widget only.

Communities served

Hispanic/Latino.

Federal recognition and registries

  • DOJ-recognized immigration legal provider

Contact

Founded 1995. IRS NTEE code S20. Revenue $2,511,937. Latest Form 990: 2022. EIN 85-0418376.

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).