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Local Policy Interventions for Protecting Immigrants

Local policies are the main drivers of policing, prosecution, and the deportation machine. This resource provides examples of effective policy language localities can use to protect community members.
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Issues/Areas of Expertise

Asylum
Citizenship and Naturalization
Civic Participation
Community Resources
Crimes
DACA
Detention
Enforcement
Family-Based
Immigrant Youth
LGBT
Policy Advocacy
Post-Conviction Relief
Prosecutors
Public Charge
Removal Defense
U Visa/T Visa/VAWA

Projects and Networks

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Immigrant Justice Network

The Immigrant Justice Network (IJN) engages in advocacy, education, technical assistance, training, communications, and litigation to address the needs of those caught in the intersection of the criminal justice and immigration systems.
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New Americans Campaign

The New Americans Campaign (NAC), a project of the ILRC, is a nonpartisan, groundbreaking national network of legal-service providers, faith-based organizations, businesses, foundations and community leaders that is paving a better road to citizenship.
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Collective Freedom Project

The Collective Freedom Project tells the stories of the local efforts where people — both U.S. citizens and non U.S. citizens — came together to fight unique campaigns against criminalization in their communities.

What's New

Practice Advisory
Practice Advisory
An Overview of USCIS’s New SIJS Regulations
Date Published:
01/23/2023

Special immigrant juvenile status (SIJS) provides a way for certain young people who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected by a parent to obtain immigration status.

Public Comments / Sign-on Letters
Public Comments / Sign-on Letters
ILRC Comments to USCIS on Policy Manual Changes to Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility
Date Published:
01/23/2023

On December 19, 2022, USCIS published updates to its Policy Manual on how adjudicators should assess applications under the Public Charge ground of inadmissibility. This guidance accompanies the new final rule on Public Charge which took effect on December 23, 2023.

FAQs & Explainers
FAQs & Explainers
Changes to Green Card Renewals for Naturalization Applicants
Date Published:
01/20/2023

On December 9, 2022, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that they will automatically extend the validity of Permanent Resident Cards—also known as green cards—for those who apply for naturalization on or after December 12, 2022.

FAQs & Explainers
FAQs & Explainers
California Appellate Law on Special Immigrant Juvenile Status
Date Published:
01/06/2023

In recent years, California’s appellate courts have provided guidance on the state court’s role in Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) cases.

Practice Advisory
Practice Advisory
Introduction to Federal Rulemaking and Public Participation
Date Published:
01/05/2023

Federal Rulemaking is one of the most direct ways that the public can participate and shape policies and practices of executive agencies.

Practice Advisory
Practice Advisory
How to Defend Immigrants Charged with Drug Offenses, Including New Penal Code § 372.5
Date Published:
01/05/2023

Drug offenses cause the harshest, most disproportionate immigration penalties of any offense. Criminal defenders and immigration advocates need information to work aggressively to defend immigrant clients.

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