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** Know Your Rights
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** IDP will join Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Know Your Rights webinar
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IDP will join the office of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for a Know Your Rights webinar to learn about information and resources to help protect our communities. This session will provide practical guidance on understanding and exercising your rights when interacting with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It can be viewed live on Representative Ocasio-Cortez's Facebook or via Zoom, registration for Zoom here ([link removed]) .
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** Know Your Rights Community Slide Deck
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In December 2024, IDP, Make the Road New York, and the Surveillance Resistance Lab presented a Know Your Rights Train-the-Trainer ([link removed]) workshop on ICE raids. The presentation has been viewed over 6,000 times. Since the training, we created Community Slide Decks in both English and Spanish, for people giving Know Your Rights presentations in their own communities to use. The workshop and slide decks ([link removed]) can be found on IDP's website.
View the workshop and get the slide decks ([link removed])


** Updated Know Your Rights Infographics
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Thanks to volunteer organizers and collectives, we now have some of our KYR infographic decks available in Mandarin, Korean, Maya Q'anjob'al, Kiwcha and Ixil! The infographics can be found on IDP's instagram ([link removed]) .

IDP also has a suite of Know Your Rights resources ([link removed]) , including English and Spanish infographics that cover who is at risk of an ICE arrest, best practices to document ICE, and rights-based information for encounters with ICE in locations like at home, on the street, and in cars.
KYR Infographic in Mandarin ([link removed])
KYR Infographic in Korean ([link removed])
KYR Infographic in Maya Q'anjob'al (1/2) ([link removed])
KYR Infographic in Maya Q'anjob'al (2/2) ([link removed])
KYR Infographic in Kiwcha ([link removed])
KYR Infographic in Ixil ([link removed])
IDP suite of KYR resources ([link removed])


** Resources
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** Legal Resource: Updated New York Quick Reference Chart
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The New York Quick Reference Chart ([link removed]) has been revised and is now available with updates current through the 2024 calendar year. Immigration law and practice are changing constantly. By subscribing to the 2025 Edition of the New York Quick Reference Chart ([link removed]) , attorneys can access newly updated information about the possible immigration consequences of specific, commonly charged New York offenses. The 2025 Edition ([link removed]) incorporates several updates, including:
* Criminal and removal defense tips based on 2024 Supreme Court decision in Loper-Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 144 S. Ct. 2244 (2024);
* Immigration consequences analysis and criminal and immigration practice tips for multiple New York offenses based on new 2024 and other agency and federal court decisions, including links to unpublished BIA decisions;
* Immigration consequences analysis of New York sex offenses based on new 2024 New York “Rape is Rape” legislation; and
* Additional criminal statutes added to the chart, including NY gang offense and bribery and related offenses.

Get the 2025 New York Quick Reference Chart ([link removed])


** Policy Explainer: Trump Day One Orders: Focus on Criminalization and Detention
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On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump issued more than a dozen Executive Orders (EOs) that seek to sow fear in immigrant communities. These orders seek to militarize our borders and immigration enforcement more broadly, massively expand the existing deportation and detention machinery, punish organizations that care for immigrants as well as local governments that prioritize protecting their residents, and misinterpret the U.S. Constitution and immigration laws. They attempt to do everything from effectively ending asylum and birthright citizenship to teeing up immigration bans and expansive indefinite detention. They are steeped in white supremacist ideology and criminalizing narratives about immigrants. Together, the EOs create a web of entanglement among immigration, military and criminal law enforcement at federal, state, and local levels.

Along with partners, IDP outlined portions of the EOs that use contact with the criminal system and immigration detention to further criminalize, detain and deport immigrants. ([link removed])
Read about Trump’s Day One Orders to Criminalize, Detain and Deport Immigrants ([link removed])


** Messaging Guidance: Messaging to Challenge Detention, Deportation, and Criminalization of Immigrants
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We updated our resource: “Messaging Guidance to Challenge the Detention, Deportation and Criminalization of Immigrants ([link removed]) .” This document equips the immigrant justice movement with cohesive messaging to challenge the detention, deportation, and criminalization of immigrants. As we respond to an increase in rhetoric and policies that are steeped in white supremacy and xenophobia, and the demonization of community members who have arrests or convictions, this document is a go-to resource to stay principled in our response on immigration policing issues.

This guidance was created by IDP’s Comm/Unity and its organizational members, including: Detention Watch Network, Immigrant Defense Project, Latino Justice, Just Futures Law, UndocuBlack, National Immigrant Justice, Immigrant Justice Network, SEARAC, United We Dream, National Immigration Project, National Immigration Law Center, NDLON, and Freedom to Thrive. It is informed by messaging research led by Detention Watch Network and IDP through the Comm/Unity network.
Read Messaging Guidance from Comm/Unity ([link removed])


** New Ways to Support IDP!
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Riobamba’s APOCALIPSIS ([link removed]) and Nino Augustine’s FELIZ GLOBAL ([link removed]) have teamed up to release a limited-edition tee to raise funds and awareness for immigrant defense organizations. The funds they raised will be donated to IDP, Detention Watch Networ, and United We Dream.

"This collaboration is about using art as a tool for resistance and solidarity," says Nino Augustine, Artist and collaborator of FELIZ GLOBAL. "We want to create an impact that extends beyond the music and fashion worlds, directly supporting organizations doing vital work for immigrant communities."

APOCALIPSIS is a record label amplifying artists de aquí y de allá, and celebrating music as a site of joy and resistance. FELIZ GLOBAL is the brainchild of a diverse collective of Latinx creatives, created to remind everyone to never allow anyone or anything to steal their joy.
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