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 : 5/14/2025 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.
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Written By: Make The Road New York
Updated : 5/13/2025 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.
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Written By: National Immigration Project (NIPNLG)
Updated : 5/14/2025 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.
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