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.
Read More →CBP One Parolees
Written By: International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP)
Updated : 5/14/2025 Written : 5/14/2025This article explains what is currently happening with immigration enforcement for people who entered the United States on parole through a CBP One appointment at the U.S.-Mexico border. Available in French, Haitian Kreyol, Dari, Pashto, Arabic, Ukrainian
Read More →Challenges of Return After Deportation
Written By: National Immigration Project (NIPNLG)
Updated : 5/13/2025 Written : 5/7/2025Individuals deported from the United States face enormous legal and practical barriers to being able to return and rejoin their families and communities in the future. These barriers often convert deportation into a prolonged, if not lifetime, exile from the United States. This report provides an overview of the significant—often impossible—hurdles faced by deported individuals who seek return to the United States under the current legal regime and offers administrative and legislative policy recommendations to reduce these barriers and allow unjustly or wrongfully deported individuals to return home.
Read More →Community Explainer: Laken Riley Act
Written By: National Immigration Project (NIPNLG)
Updated : 5/13/2025 Written : 5/7/2025The Laken Riley Act exploits a tragic murder to criminalize immigrant populations, vastly expand immigration detention, and encourage anti-immigrant states to file lawsuits against the federal government for certain immigration decisions it makes. This explainer breaks down what the Laken Riley Act means for our communities and how we can protect each other.
Read More →Deportation Defense Manual
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.
Read More →My Community Member Was Arrested by ICE - What Do I Do?
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.
Read More →Navigating EOIR Directives Under Trump 2.0: Practical Guidance for Advocates and Programs
Written By: Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC)
Updated : 5/14/2025 Written : 5/14/2025Since returning to office, the Trump administration has issued a wave of executive orders, policy actions, memoranda, and guidance documents that significantly impact immigration law and the adjudication of cases. This resource seeks to highlight the key impacts of the new Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) and Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) memos for legal services providers (LSPs) and their clients and offers practical guidance for effective representation in immigration court. Last Updated: April 22, 2025
Read More →Post-Deportation Self-Assessment Guide
Written By: National Immigration Project (NIPNLG)
Updated : 5/14/2025 Written : 5/7/2025This guide is intended as a self-assessment resource for individuals who have previously been deported want to return legally to the United States. This guide provides general information about immigration law and and does not constitute legal advice. This guide was originally prepared by the Post-Deportation Human Rights Project (PDHRP) in 2011 and was updated in 2023 by the National Immigration Project and Boston College's Center for Human Rights & International Justice.
Read More →USCIS Issues New NTA Guidance Memo - English and Spanish
Written By: Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC)
Updated : 5/14/2025 Written : 5/14/2025This resource provides information for practitioners on a new policy memo issued by USCIS on Feb. 28, 2025, which revives previous Trump administration policies that expanded situations where USCIS was directed to issue Notices to Appear (NTAs) to individuals applying for immigration benefits. It includes a draft informed consent document for individuals who may be subject to NTA issuance.
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