Communities need to have systems and resources to prepare for President Trump’s mass deportation and detention agenda.
A time for relentless advocacy is ahead, but we want to support you with pressing and immediate needs.
Trump's Deportation Agenda and Faith Communities
- World Relief: Responding to ICE in places of worship
- Columbia Law School, Law, Rights & Religion Project: FAQs on Religious Liberty & Immigration covers how religious liberty laws like the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) could protect faith communities’ right to gather for worship without government interference.
- National Immigration Law Center: Trump’s Rescission of Protected Areas Policies Undermines Safety for All
Know Your Rights Resources from Partner Organizations
- National Immigration Project: A Guide to Changing Your Immigration Court Hearing from In-Person to Online
- Make the Road NY: a comprehensive deportation defense manual
- ACLU’s Know Your Rights: This resource has concrete scenarios you can review.
- We Have Rights: An empowerment campaign to prepare for and safely defend our rights during encounters with Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE).
- Informed Immigrant’s Know Your Rights: This resource gives preparation advice ahead of a possible immigration raid.
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center: Step-by-Step Family Preparedness Plan.
- National Immigration Law Center: What to Do if You Are Arrested or Detained by Immigration
- National Immigration Law Center: How to Find a Loved One After a U.S. Immigration Arrest
Your Rights while Protesting
- National Immigration Law Center: Know Your Rights: Immigrants’ Participation in Protests
- Muslims for Just Futures: Know Your Rights Protesting
- South Asian Coalition: Immigrant Students and Targeting on College Campuses
Your Rights at Work and Elsewhere
- Legal Aid at Work’s Employment Rights of Undocumented Workers
- Arkansas Immigrant Defense Fund’s Preparing for ICE Raids: A Guide for School and Community Partnerships
- National Immigration Law Center’s Health Care Providers and Immigration Enforcement: Know Your Rights, Know Your Patients’ Rights
Amnesty International Protest Monitoring
Amnesty International’s Citizen Evidence Lab is a digital protest monitoring that allows the organization to track multiple cities and locations across the United States. If you are at a protest and witness concerning action, or excessive use of force, such as the unnecessary and excessive use of rubber bullets, please email Amnesty to help with their protest monitoring at researchusa@amnesty.org.
Legal Referrals
Mental Health Support
National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI) Helpline: 800-950-NAMI (6264) or info@nami.org
Caged Dreams: Healing Horizons offers trauma informed care for immigrants and displaced individuals
Practical ways for allies to support
- American Bar Association: Immigration Court Observation and Awareness Project. Information, Registration
- Freedom for Immigrants: National Immigration Detention Bond Fund
- Black Immigrants Bail Fund
- Freedom for Immigrants: National Visitation Network, which builds and strengthens visitation programs for people in immigration detention
- American Friends Service Committee: How to create a mutual aid network
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