Immigration
A step-by-step guide for what to do if Immigration Agents come to your door based on your rights, along with an instructional video.
What you need to know about the rights of immigrants and the threat of deportation.
ACLU has been our nation’s guardian of liberty, working in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.
AILA provides Know Your Rights handouts for several scenarios: ICE worksite raids (for employers), ICE home visits, and ICE public stops.
CLINIC’s Emergency Planning Guide helps you formulate an emergency plan and helps you think through steps you can take before an emergency to best protect your family.
This guide is focused on lifting a case publicly in traditional and social media and placing pressure on immigration services with the help of congregations, the community, and elected officials. Although there is no guarantee, PICO has learned that in lifting up a case in the public sphere, each letter of support from a legislator, each newspaper article, each call from a community member to ICE, and each action taken by those advocating can help stop a deportation.
The Detention Watch Network works through the collective strength and diversity of its members to expose and challenge the injustices of the U.S. immigration detention and deportation system and advocate for profound change that promotes the rights and dignity of all persons.
A basic guide for New Yorkers on what to do before and after detention or deportation of a family member.
This site has identified more than 1,200 trusted non-profits, clinics, and immigrant-serving organizations that are able to connect with you directly in your community.
Forced Migration Online (FMO) is home to a growing collection of free resources relating to refugees and forced migration. FMO is designed for use by students, academics, practitioners, policy makers, the media, forced migrants or anyone else interested in the field of forced migration. By bringing together these useful and timesaving resources, FMO aims to support research and policy making in the field.
Given increased enforcement activity in recent years by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), it is important that immigrant rights advocates and local communities be prepared in the event of a raid.
It is important to be prepared and to know your rights and your family’s rights in case of a raid or other encounter with ICE or local law enforcement.
Everybody has rights under the U.S. constitution that you may exercise in such a situation. There are also a number of steps you can take ahead of any encounter to minimize panic, family separation, and loss of financial assets. This guide provides helpful information on preparing as well as responding to a raid in your home, workplace, or in a public space.