Here’s some resources and supports to help your organize locally in your community:
• Our Community Resource Defense Hub, with editable, tools, templates and graphics you can adapt for your community
• Our Campus Defense Toolkit, with strategies to defend students, faculty, and more
• Our Fourth Amendment Workplaces campaign, with strategies to grow businesses defending immigrants in your community
• Our YouTube account, with video uploads of all of our trainings
• Our how to build a group toolkit, if you want to start a new group doing immigration defense in your community
Resources from our community:
Below are resources we’ve collated from our community. Have other resources you think we should add? Send them to us! hola(at)defendandrecruit.org
- Know your rights
- Apps that play recording of your legal rights (available in multiple languages)
- Karen’s Guide to Disrupting ICE Operations
- Understanding the Trump Administration’s Harmful Actions on Immigration by AILA
- Spanish Phrases
- Resist Fascism podcast
- For Educators:
- Town Hall – We Protect Kids in an Era of Escalating Immigration Enforcement
- Campaign: Sanctuary Schools – Chicago Teachers Union (CTU)
- CTU Sanctuary Schools provisions (article 46-7; start on page 205)
- Sanctuary Toolkit (includes folder on KYR + Emergency Planning)
- School as Sanctuary – Learning for Justice
- Safe Schools for Every Student: A Comprehensive Guide for Action
- 2025 Sanctuary Resources for Teachers (Chicago Edition)
- Educator: Student/Community Self Defense from ICE Raids
- Sanctuary Lessons: How Chicago Teachers Are Defending Their Students
- Addressing Student Trauma, Anxiety, and Depression
- Immigration Lesson Plans and Resources for PreK-12
- Post-Election Resources for Teachers (2024)
- Ten Strategies for Supporting Immigrant Students and Families
- Teaching About Immigration – Social Justice Books
- Quick Reference for School Officials
- For university students: Trump administration to cancel student visas of pro-Palestinian protesters