GREAT IMMIGRATION ORGANIZATIONS
- NILC the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) is one of the leading organizations in the U.S. exclusively dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of immigrants with low income.
- AILA American Immigration Lawyers Association
- SONG Southerners of New Ground
- TQP Trans Queer Pueblo
- Familia: TQLM Familia:Trans Queer Liberation Movement
UNDERSTANDING SANCTUARY
- SONG/Mijente Expanded Sanctuary toolkit https://mijente.net/2017/01/27/sanctuary-report/
- Crowdsourced toolkit on expanding sanctuary: https://mijente.net/2017/02/16/sanctuary-policies/
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
Deportation Defense Card to Know Your Rights & information for United We Dream hotline to report ICE activity. This one pager can be kept on mobile devices for brief, easily accessible info.
Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests [In English– Full Guide & Spanish– Know Your Rights two-pager] from Immigrant Defense Project and the Center for Constitutional Rights
A report from Immigrant Defense Project providing comprehensive toolkit for raids (requires email for download).
Know Your Rights: If you are stopped by police, immigration agents or the FBI from ACLU
A concise know your rights legal resource on what to do if you are stopped by police, in your car, asked about your immigration status, detained, arrested or believe your rights have been violated. Available in English, (Arabic) العَرَبِيَّة, 中文(简) (Chinese), فارسی (Farsi), Français (French), Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian), 한국어 (Korean), Soomaali (Somali), Español (Spanish), (Urdu) اُردُو, and Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese).
Is It A Raid? From Organized Communities Against Deportations – OCAD [In English & Spanish]
How to report immigration activity and avoid creating panic and confusion one-pagers.
ACTION PLANNING
Creating an Action Plan from Make the Road New York [In English & Spanish]
Brief tips on how to prepare if you, your family or friends are at risk of a home raid by ICE. Includes suggestions about document preparation, contact information, planning for family and specific guidelines for action planning during a raid.
What if I’m Picked up by ICE in Arizona?: Making a Family Plan [With relevant national content – in English & Spanish]
Information on preparing for possibility of detention, separation and deportation, family security kit, and state-specific details on navigating child welfare systems.
Detainee Support Toolkit from Black Immigration Network [In English, Kreyol & Spanish]
Toolkits for visiting immigrants in detention and creating a visitation program. This guide provides additional information about how to locate immigrants in detention for family members and visits as well as creating a detention center visitation program.
ORGANIZING RESOURCES
Expanding Sanctuary Policy Solutions – A Crowdsourced Guide from Mijente
A compilation of current bills and analysis pointing toward what’s needed but not yet drafted to serve as a starting place for policy solutions to expand sanctuary at the city level. It suggests 8 policies that expand sanctuary (and benefit/ do no harm) for the following constituencies: undocumented people, Muslims, LGBTQ folks (Trans people specifically) and Black activists in cities.
It is meant to help answer the question, “We want to be a sanctuary. How do we do it?” and a repository for solutions and visions of what is and could be done to defy Trump, defend our cities, and expand sanctuary.
Community Defense Zone Guide [in English & Spanish] from GLAHR, Mijente & Puente Human Rights
This document lays out a roadmap for setting up Community Defense Zone campaigns in local communities. We know that many people are doing different kinds of work right now, but we also have heard from many that templates are needed for where to start under the new reality of the Trump Era. The lessons here are pulled from successful campaigns in red states, under hostile state government, to run Community Defense Zone campaigns (some often called ‘ICE Free Zone campaigns’ or ‘Human Rights Zone’ campaigns).
It is meant to be adaptable for small towns and big cities, relevant to red state and blue, meant to get us beyond our usual circles, and it’s best paired with other ‘know your rights’ materials.
Tell Your Mayor to Defy Trump, Expand Sanctuary – Local Campaign Petition Platform from Mijente
Find or create a petition to tell the mayor of your city or town to defy Trump and expand sanctuary! We’re demanding expanded sanctuary as an opportunity to create policies that keep us safe and expand sanctuary to provide the protection and security all city residents need.
Resistance and Solidarity: Sanctuary Congregations in an Era of Mass Deportation from UU College for Social Justice and UU Refugee and Immigrant Services and Education
A toolkit for faith communities and congregations exploring individual sanctuary including laying the groundwork, discernment, legal questions and spiritual grounding for contextualizing site-specific sanctuary within broader expanded sanctuary work.
DOCUMENTING RAIDS
A brief guide for sharing reports on raids on social media responsibly from Desis Rising Up and Moving
A brief guide for sharing reports on raids on social media responsibly and communicating in a way that supports our communities to best protect themselves.
Immigration Raids Rapid Response: For Faith Allies Inspired by Sanctuary in the Streets from New Sanctuary Movement Philadelphia
A brief toolkit for faith communities including how congregations and denominations can prepare and respond to immediate threats of ICE/police raids.
SITE-SPECIFIC SANCTUARY RESOURCES
Sanctuary Movement Webinar from Auburn Seminary
A series of short videos from a webinar discussing sanctuary in the era of Trump featuring Rev. Alison Harrington – Southside Presbyterian Church, Raul Alcaraz Ochoa – Protection Network Organizing, Peter Pedemonti – New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia, Rev. Alexia Salvatierra and Rabbi Jonathan Klein – Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice.
New Sanctuary Movement Legal Toolkit from the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law
A toolkit covering legal implications and know your rights for congregations offering sanctuary to individuals and/or families. Most recently updated in 2007 but with relevant information.
BACKGROUND READINGS/RESOURCES
Expanding Sanctuary – What Makes a City a Sanctuary now from Mijente
A February 2017 report from Mijente on expanding sanctuary cities to protect all residents from criminalization and deportation.
A Radical Expansion of Sanctuary: Steps in Defiance of Trump’s Executive Order from Marisa Franco
An overview of Expanded Sanctuary under the Trump regime including first steps for local organizing campaigns by Marisa Franco, co-founder of Mijente and a part of the #Not1More campaign.
An exhaustive resource site from immigrant justice, rights and service organizations including information and recommendations responding to Trump’s Executive Order, Resources for Immigrants and allies and legal information on employment, DACA the BRIDGE Act and beyond.
A growing movement of immigrant and over 800 faith communities doing what Congress and the Administration refuse to do: protect and stand with immigrants facing deportation.
HIVenas Abiertas: A Network of Latinx Immigrant People Living with HIV/AIDS, a group that has worked for the past two years by embracing intersectionality and inclusion is relaunching its efforts via a new landing page, join them and have your voices be heard!