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Building Community-Driven Legal Services to Empower, Protect, and Defend Our Communities: Field Guide for Deportation Defense
Written By: National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA)
Updated : 10/8/2025 Written : 5/7/2025Under the incoming Trump administration, all immigrants and refugees, regardless of status, must know their rights and information on available immigration relief and community resources. Legal capacity is critical but sorely limited and in need of robust expansion. Community education and guidance, through a Community Navigator training program, will be essential. Through the Legal Services Collective, NPNA will continue to strengthen the field’s legal infrastructure for service delivery and deportation defense; share and develop public education resources; assist and provide education to immigrant community members in applying for DACA renewals, TPS, Other Forms of Relief, and Naturalization; and expand our "Know Your Rights" community education work to protect and defend our communities.
Read More →Deportation Defense Manual
Written By: Make The Road New York
Updated : 10/8/2025 Written : 5/7/2025The purpose of this manual is to provide information, resources, and a guide to create a plan of action to protect targeted communities against the ongoing anti-immigrant attacks of the Trump administration. It is important to remember when we act together, we have the power to protect one another even when immigration laws and agents do not respect our community. This manual contains three sections: (1) Know Your Rights, (2) Rapid Response to Raids, and (3) Deportation Defense.
Read More →My Community Member Was Arrested by ICE - What Do I Do?
Written By: National Immigration Project (NIPNLG)
Updated : 10/8/2025 Written : 5/7/2025The checklist is meant to be used in the aftermath of an ICE arrest to determine the next steps to find the person who was detained and identify what assistance and support they and their family need. Available in English and Spanish.
Read More →Naturalization Alert: Memos on Good Moral Character (GMC) and Neighborhood Visits
Written By: Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC)
Updated : 11/11/2025 Written : 11/11/2025This practice alert covers recent U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) policy statements announced in August 2025 that could affect naturalization applicants. On August 15, 2025, USCIS issued a memo which states an intent to change how the agency will assess whether applicants meet the good moral character (“GMC”) requirements for naturalization. On August 22, 2025, USCIS issued a memo that prescribes neighborhood visits to investigate naturalization applicants for scrutiny of the applicant’s residency, GMC, and attachment to the U.S. Constitution. As with the GMC memo, this memo does not exist in the official repository of USCIS policy, the USCIS Policy Manual. At this time there are no instructions on how these memos will be implemented by USCIS.
Read More →Practice Alert: Impact Of HR-1 On Trafficking Survivors
Written By: ASISTA
Updated : 11/11/2025 Written : 11/11/2025This Practice Alert will first explain the changes to USCIS and EOIR filing fees, and the new penalty fees to be imposed for certain immigration violations. Second, it will review changes to immigrant eligibility for public benefits as they relate to immigrant survivors of human trafficking. Finally, this Practice Alert will discuss how immigrant survivors of human trafficking are affected by these changes and what practitioners can do to address the potential negative impact HR-1 will have on their clients.
Read More →Screening for Immigration Relief: Client Intake Form and Notes
Written By: Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC)
Updated : 11/11/2025 Written : 11/11/2025This resource is a comprehensive client intake form meant to assist practitioners in screening for immigration relief options and assessing red flags. Accompanying the intake form are notes to assist practitioners in spotting issues and relief options as well as a summary of common forms of relief. This sample client intake form is generic, to screen for general relief since the goal at the screening stage is not to make a final determination of eligibility but to assess pathways for relief.
Read More →Southern District of California - Immigration Habeas Filing Checklist
Written By: ACACIA Center for Justice
Updated : 11/11/2025 Written : 11/11/2025Use this checklist to stay on track when filing and serving in the Southern District of California (S.D. Cal.).
Read More →Three BIA Decisions Severely Limit Bond Eligibility
Written By: Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC)
Updated : 11/11/2025 Written : 11/11/2025The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) recently issued three precedential decisions relating to custody redetermination, or “bond,” proceedings before immigration judges (IJs) that limit — or eliminate altogether — bond eligibility for many detained individuals. This article analyzes these three decisions.
Read More →U.S. Citizen Kids and ICE Check Ins: How to Prepare
Written By: National Immigration Project (NIPNLG)
Updated : 10/8/2025 Written : 7/11/2025This community resource will provide preparedness information for parents or guardian who may be subject to deportation who have a U.S. citizen child or children. The explainer offers options for getting ready for an ICE or ISAP check-in, a template checklist, and information about ICE's own policies.
Read More →What's Happening With Immigration Court Arrests and Bonds
Written By: National Immigration Project (NIPNLG)
Updated : 10/8/2025 Written : 7/8/2025This explainer goes over the ICE enforcement tactic of arresting people at their immigration court hearings as well as a recent Board of Immigration Appeals Decision that further restricts who can ask an immigration judge for a bond to get out of detention. That decision is called Matter of Q. Li.
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