LWV Diablo Valley Immigration Team
LWV Diablo Valley Immigration Team
Over a quarter of Contra Costa residents are immigrants who come from all over the world. LWVDV and other local organizations are working together to support our immigrant neighbors.
The LWVDV Immigration Team educates members and the public about immigration and deportation issues, advocates for immigration policies aligned with League positions, and supports our immigrant neighbors as they go through the court process. We invite you to join us!
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Local Resources:
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Know Your Rights Resources:
- American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) provides Know Your Rights handouts at this website. Handouts include: ICE worksite raids (for employers), ICE home visits, and ICE public stops.
- The Immigrant Legal Resource Center has red cards to help people assert their rights. They also have an Immigration Preparedness Toolkit and a Know Your Rights toolkit.
- Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of LA (CHIRLA: Know Your Rights video.
- We Have Rights: a national immigrant empowerment campaign to inform people of what to do when interacting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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More Resources for Supporting Immigrants:
- The National Partnership for New Americans and the League of Women Voters have identified ways you can defend America’s immigrant communities. See: How to Support the Immigrant Community (LWVUS).
- The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) has an excellent listing of immigration hotlines at this link. It has resources to report raids in your area, to seek help if being detained or at risk of being deported, and to report missing migrants.
- Just Security, Immigration section: Just Security is an online forum for the rigorous analysis of security, democracy, foreign policy, and rights.
- American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) will be tracking Trump’s immigration-oriented Executive Orders.
- Immigration Policy Tracking Project: This is a project of Lucas Guttentag, professor at both Stanford and Yale and founder of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project (IRP)
- Witness at the Border: Tracks ICE flights
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Community Conversations - Webinars
Community Conversation webinars on immigration were presented earlier this year to provide information about national, state and local immigration laws, and to demystify myths that contribute to misunderstanding and false information about immigrants. Videos of the presentations are now available:
- New Economic and Social Realities of Immigration 2025
- Deportation and the Courts - Promoting Human Rights at Home
- What Is the Reality of Immigration?
See below for related news, announcements and events.
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