Beyond Sanctuary: Local Reforms in Conservative Regions
In conservative and anti-immigrant areas, it may not be possible to pass sweeping sanctuary laws that prohibit collaboration between local law enforcement agencies and ICE. This is especially true if anti-sanctuary statutes like Texas’ SB 4 and...
Understanding Targets in Texas: City and County Government Structures
Identifying the right local targets is a crucial step in an organizing campaign. Before advocates and community members start to push for a policy, it is important we understand the structure of our local government, the authority and jurisdiction of...
Messaging to Make Our Vision a Reality
This webinar provides key communications tools to uplift a values-based narrative and push back against anti-immigrant scapegoating, in support of the VISION Act (pending state bill which strengthens the CA Values Act) and other similar policy asks...
Enforcement 101: How Ice Arrests and Deports People
In this recording, we discuss how ICE operates and goes about detaining and deporting hundreds of thousands of people a year. Designed for those new to the fight against ICE, we provide an overview of how ICE operates as well as an overview of local...
FOIA Requests and Other Background Checks
FOIA Requests and Other Background Checks: A Practical Guide to Filing Records Requests in Immigration Cases provides practitioners with a one-stop guide for information about why, when, where, and how to file background checks in immigration cases...
Stop 287(g) Now!
All seventy-eight 287(g) agreements in the country will expire on June 30, 2019. This is a crucial opportunity to prevent your community from continuing its participation in this terrible program, which incentivizes racial profiling and has led to...
Dismantling Detention Webinar
Immigration detention has been expanding at record rates under the Trump Administration, but many of us are fighting detention in all kinds of new and innovative ways. This webinar will provide new advocates and organizers with important background...
Police-ICE Collusion: Essential Knowledge and Interventions
This webinar digs into how ICE operates and how local law enforcement agencies are really involved, so that we can demand strategic reforms. SComm is not the only way ICE gets information from localities, the Criminal Alien Program and 287(g) are...
Crimes & Immigration Law (LA)
Location: Southwestern Law School, 3050 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90010
Crimes & Immigration Law (SF)
Location: University of San Francisco School of Law, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA 94117