"Defend and Recruit Playbook" for Trump 2.0 immigration detention defense & laying the groundwork
to build anti-MAGA local governing majorities; revised January 22, 2024
Spanish and English
Defend and Recruit is a project of Siembra NC, a Latino base-building organization in North Carolina. "Download the playbook to learn how we built local defense networks, turned fear into power, and organized to step out of the shadows – into the light – to bring about a new day for all of us."
A Know Your Rights presentation from the National Partnership for New Americans: February 2026
English
A current summary of KYR in a new landscape: increased funding for ICE, increased and more aggressive immigration enforcement. We still have rights, even though they may be ignored! This slide show covers situations at home, in public, in your car, at work. “Knowing your rights and making a plan can help you stay calm and prepared.”
Civic Shutdown Protocol
English
A standing, nonviolent, civilian response to federal terror operations. This protocol uses economic disruption as leverage, forcing corporations and institutions to absorb the cost of ICE activity in their cities and transfers that pressure upward to the federal government. The goal is not to influence ICE. The goal is to make continued terrorist operations incompatible with normal economic life in targeted cities.
Education Providers and Immigration Enforcement
English
This factsheet from the National Immigration Law Center provides information and best practices for public K-12 school leaders, administrators, educators, faculty, and staff (“education providers”) to ensure they can
continue to provide a safe and welcoming learning environment for students and their families
Expedited Removal and Unaccompanied Children: November 21, 2025
English
An 18 page resource examining the question of whether expedited removal can be applied to children and young people. From the Immigrant Legal Resource Center and other legal advocacy groups. "This resource answers common questions about expedited removal and its application to children and offers arguments against its application to young people who were processed as UCs and young people with approved special immigrant juvenile status (SIJS), should the government attempt to apply it to those groups." Published on www.ilrc.org/ on 11/21/25.
Form a Crowd: Whistle Resources from Minnesota Freedom Fund
English and Spanish
This link includes downloadable guides to using whistles (why and how) in English and Spanish. The website has resources on detention, arrest, bail, court files, warrants, media coverage and safety planning: from our sisters and brothers in Minneapolis!
ICE Protocols and Policies for Episcopal Churches
English, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole
This guide has been designed for Episcopal Churches in Massachusetts that are interested inplementing protocols and policies to provide safe places to worship and to protect ministry services despite the potential threat that ICE might seek access to church buildings, individuals, or data.
Immigration Preparedness Kit from Immigrant Legal Resource Center
English and Spanish
This toolkit is a resource-packed informational document designed to help immigrants with no legal status or in mixed status families begin to understand the immigration legal landscape and plan for their own journey through an ever-changing, complex system in the United States.
Know Your Rights Resource Library: an amazing collection of resources!
English and many other languages
A comprehensive resource library of KYR information for immigration enforcement encounters at home, work, school, healthcare facilities, and public spaces. Updated for 2026. An amazing resource from Austin Kocher.
Know Your Rights Training from Connecticut: December, 2025
English and some Spanish
An excellent Powerpoint that covers Know Your Rights, with additional information on court hearings, protecting yourself, creating a family safety plan, detention and deportation. Some information is specific to Connecticut, for instance Slide 16 on the Trust Act that limits police roles in immigration enforcement.
Know Your Rights: Trump's Registration Requirement for Immigrants
Spanish
This resource in Spanish provides critical information for community members about the newly announced registration process for some undocumented immigrants, including potential risks such as detention, deportation, and legal consequences.
Know Your Rights: Trump's Registration Requirement for Immigrants
English
This resource provides critical information for community members about the newly announced registration process for some undocumented immigrants, including potential risks such as detention, deportation, and legal consequences.