Know Your Rights
& Rapid Response
Organizations & Resources
This will be evolving over time. We welcome your suggestions!
In alphabetical order
ACLU
Know Your Rights
The ACLU has KRY resources specific to a large variety of real-life situations.
Rapid Response Plan if ICE Comes to Your Community
ACLU Oregon
If you or someone you know is being deported — This resource includes scripts for a number of different scenarios.
American Immigration Council
"We envision a nation where immigrants are embraced, communities are enriched, and justice prevails for all. We strive to create a society that values immigrants as vital contributors to our nation and where everyone is afforded an equal opportunity to thrive socially, economically, and culturally.
Get News & Analysis
Immigrant Defense Network (IDN)
"Established in 2025, the Immigrant Defense Network (IDN) is an alliance of over 90 immigrant, labor, legal, faith, and community organizations dedicated to protecting and advancing the constitutional rights of immigrant communities across Minnesota. In the face of ongoing and escalating threats to immigrant rights, IDN delivers trusted information, referrals to legal support, and coordinated educational activities. Immigrants are the backbone of Minnesota’s economy, cultural richness, and civic life. We all deserve to live with dignity and without fear."
Resources
Learn which protections apply to everyone, regardless of status.
**Note that this includes important KYR info for employers (What to do if ICE comes to your workplace.)
CLINIC
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.
"CLINIC provides training and support to a dedicated network of more than 400 Catholic and community-based immigration law providers in 49 states.
"Migration is as old as human experience. People migrate today for the same reasons as throughout history: to escape oppression, famine, war and danger; to search for justice and security; and to create better and safer lives for themselves, their families and future generations. But the issue of immigration in the United States today is fraught with division and is in vital need of reform, and CLINIC's work and its Catholic values are more important than ever."
COPAL
"COPAL, Comunidades Organizando el Poder y la Acción Latina, is a member-based organization established in 2018 to improve the quality of life of Latine families. Over the past seven years, COPAL has evolved to become a well-known, grassroots power-building, and visionary transnational organization.
"Find essential immigration resources: know your rights and get support."
The Handbook for Constitutional Observers
Cosecha
Permanent protection, dignity, and respect for all undocumented immigrants.
"We are a network of immigrant leaders, families, and workers running local and national campaigns.
"Across the country, we are organizing our communities to mobilize in the streets and fight for what we deserve: permanent protection for all undocumented immigrants."
"Remember: Do not open the door to ICE, do not speak to ICE, and do not sign any documents without a lawyer present."
Disappeared in America
The Faces of Trump's Immigration Dragnet
"Across the United States, families—some with legal status, others still navigating a broken system—are being detained, disappeared, or deported without warning. The stories featured on this site are not just data points or headlines. These are true stories of over a thousand people that capture one of the darkest moments in American history."
Faith in Action
Organizing for love, dignity, and liberation
"We are the largest grassroots, global faith-based organizing network. The nonpartisan organization works with 1,000 congregations in more than 200 cities and towns through its 46 local and state federations as well as in Haiti, Central America, Africa, and Eastern Europe."
Immigrant Justice is one of their key issue areas.
Immigrant Law Center of MN
Use their helplines
"The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota (ILCM) is a nonprofit organization that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in Minnesota and North Dakota. ILCM provides services based on our capacity. ILCM has a generally high demand for services. Unfortunately, we may not always be able to assist someone. If we cannot assist you, we will refer you to another trusted organization or immigration attorney.
"ILCM also works to educate the community about immigration matters and advocates for public policies which respect the universal human rights of immigrants."
Know Your Rights (KYR)
Available in multiple languages
ICMJ Twin Ports
Interfaith Committee for Migrant Justice
"We of the Twin Ports faith community have come together to speak to the conscience of fellow citizens. Instead of building a wall at our Southern border, punishing migrants, and discouraging others from coming, let us respond in the best tradition of our nation and the shared values of our faith communities by inviting them into our communities and assisting them to rebuild their lives."
Interfaith Coalition on Immigration (ICOM)
"ICOM engages in courageous spiritual, multicultural action in solidarity with immigrants and refugees to achieve justice and stand up to systems of oppression."
ICOM is an antiracist organization.
ISAIAH MN
"We like to think of ISAIAH as one big, multiracial house — not a cookie cutter house, but one that is dynamic, alive, and ever-evolving.
"We spend time together in common areas — meetings, trainings, big events — and are always coordinating our efforts to build power for a multiracial democracy, caring economy, and thriving planet."
MIRAC
MN Immigrant Rights Action Committee
"MIRAC is an all-volunteer, grassroots, multiracial, and multinational immigrant rights mass-movement organization. MIRAC fights for legalization for all, an end to immigration raids and deportations, an end to all anti-immigrant laws, and full equality in all areas of life."
National Immigrant Justice Center
Know Your Rights
"All individuals in the United States have rights, regardless of immigration status."
"The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) defends the rights of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.
"Our advocacy and legal services teams keep families together, free people from the dangers of immigrant detention, and prevent asylum seekers and long-time community members from being deported based on unjust laws and illegal government actions."
National Lawyers Guild
Law for the People
"Established in 1937, the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is the nation’s oldest and largest progressive bar association and was the first one in the US to be racially integrated. Our mission is to use law for the people, uniting lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers to function as an effective force in the service of the people by valuing human rights and the rights of ecosystems over property interests."
The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
"The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) works to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and refugees, regardless of immigration status."
Know Your Rights (KYR)
Available in multiple languages
UnidosUS
"We're the largest Latino civil rights organization in the United States."
Facts
- "64 million Latinos live and work in the United States, contributing $3.6 trillion to the U.S. economy.
- "8 out of 10 Latinos are U.S. citizens. 800,000 Hispanics become U.S. citizens annually.
- "6 million children are U.S. citizens of undocumented parents.
- "More than 17 million Hispanics voted in 2024.
- "1 million Latino citizens turn 18 each year and become eligible to vote — that's potentially 2 million new voters by 2026 and 4 million by 2028."
Know Your Rights & Immigration Rapid Response Resource Guide
In Spanish & English