RESIST! A RAPID RESPONSE TRAINING RESOURCES

ACT

• Support the National Immigration Project (NIP)

• Read Panelist Slides With Context, Rapid Response Background, Know Your Rights vs. Reality, and Calls to Action:

       

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• For attorneys: Sign up for Habeas Projects. The National Immigration Project is partnering with local groups in different parts of the country (including Louisiana & Southeast region, DC/Maryland/Virginia, Minnesota, New Mexico, and Texas) to set up habeas referral pipelines, place habeas cases, and train and mentor attorneys to deepen the bench of available representation. If you are an attorney who wants to help meet the expanding need for representation, please sign up! We will reach out to you about training opportunities as well as relevant case referrals if needed.
• More on NIP’s community trainings here
• Request form you can complete and, depending on the nature and context, NIP can figure out if we’re the right people for the job.

• Support JusticeAid - 100% of proceeds go to the National Immigration Project
• • To request JusticeAid NYC Spring Concert tickets: admin@justiceaid.org
  • Click to donate to JusticeAid

• Call your Congressional Representatives and tell them not to support increased ICE funding

HELPFUL MATERIALS FOR ENGAGING IN RAPID RESPONSE

• Plug into your local networks with the 2026 Rapid Response Spreadsheet (this is being continually updated)

• How to film ICE, Wired 

• My Community Member Was Detained by ICE, What Do I Do?, National Immigration Project
• • Online Detainee Locator System
  • Search commissary systems by detention center (these vary by detention center)
• U.S. Citizen Kids and ICE Check Ins: How to Prepare, National Immigration Project

• Sample Immigration Court Watch Observation Form, National Immigration Project

• ICE Check-In Monitoring Form, National Immigration Project 

• Challenges In Identifying People Arrested In An Ice Raid: Short- & Long-Term Strategies, National Immigration Project 

• Toolkit: How We Dealt With Border Patrol, from Make North Carolina Work, Defend and Recruit, Siembra NC

• Community Explainer: The Leaked Internal ICE Memo on Home Arrests, National Immigration Project 

STUDIES ON THE POSITIVE IMPACTS OF IMMIGRATION

• David Bier of the Cato Institute discussing immigration on the “Why Is This Happening?” podcast with Chris Hayes

• Testimony of David Bier, Director of Immigration Studies at the Cato Institute, to the Congressional Budget committee on the cost of the border crisis

• The Economic Case for Mass Immigration Is as Strong as Ever, The Cato Institute

• The Importance of Immigrant Labor to the US Economy, The Center for Migration Studies