It is important to remember that the armed, masked paramilitary force targeting people they think are undocumented immigrants is not normal. Mass detentions and mass deportations are not normal. In addition to these practices being inhumane, they erode due process and threaten our democracy. Here are additional resources to help immigrant communities.

 

Know Your Rights

• Know Your Rights | American Civil Liberties Union

• Know Your Rights | Immigrant Legal Resource Center | ILRC

 

Make a Plan

• Rapid Response Toolkit | Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC)

• How to Prepare Yourself and Others for Encounters With Immigration Enforcement – NILC

• Rapid Response Toolkit – Legal Aid Justice Center

 

Offer Help and Work In a Partnership

• Ten Ideas to Encourage Immigrant Engagement

• How to Support the Immigrant Community | MyLO

• Protecting Immigrant Families

 

Understand the Role of Local Law Enforcement

• ICE’s Work with Local Police Departments is Being Kept Secret – American Oversight

• The 287(g) Program: An Overview – American Immigration Council

• How is your local government collaborating with ICE? Here’s how to find out — and push back

 

Communicate and Document

• Observe & Document ICE Activity | NEA

• Documenting and Responding to ICE

• IDP’s Shareable Infographics – Immigrant Defense Project

 

Donate

• RAICES

• Stop the Mass Deportation and Detention Machine | Amnesty International USA

• Donate to Defend Immigrant Rights and Provide Legal Aid

 

Advocate

• Migration & Immigrant Rights | American Friends Service Committee

• Seven Ways You Can Take Action for Immigrants | HIAS

• Advocacy – Immigrant Defense Project

 

Organize and Engage

• United We Dream

• Grassroots Community Organizing for Immigrants’ and Refugee Rights – CWS

• Community Organizing Program – We Are CASA