ICE List:Essential information
General information, not legal advice. These guides are written by the community, laws vary by state, and policies change. For advice about your own situation, talk to an immigration lawyer (how to find a real one, free if needed).
Essential information
Know your rights. All of them.
Plain-language guides for anyone who may face ICE: at home, at work, in the street, at a protest, or through someone they love. Written by the community, for the community. Share them, print them, teach them.
🚪 If ICE shows up
- Your Rights at Your Door: the one rule (do not open), judicial vs ICE warrants, the tricks agents use.
- Your Rights on the Street: "Am I free to leave?", the right to silence, what never to do.
- Your Rights in Your Car: stops, searches, passengers, and border checkpoints.
- Your Rights at Work: for workers and for employers, raids vs I-9 audits.
- Courthouses, Schools and Hospitals: the protected-areas policy is gone. What that means, place by place.
✊ Protest and bear witness
- Protest Rights: where you can protest, dispersal orders, your phone, arrests, non-citizen risk.
- If You Witness a Raid: how to be the witness a family needs, and the mistakes to avoid.
- Recording Incidents Safely: filming technique that keeps you safe and the footage usable.
- Information to Document: exactly what details matter.
🧭 For immigrants and families
- Family Preparedness Plan: children, documents, money, the folder, the check-in plan. Make it while calm.
- Red Cards and Rights Cards: the card that says your rights for you. Free, in many languages.
- If You Are Detained: two sentences to memorize, why you sign nothing, bond, your A-number.
- If a Loved One Is Detained: find them, get a lawyer, ask about bond, in that order.
⚖️ Get help
- Finding an Immigration Lawyer: free help that is real, and the notario fraud that is not.
- Emergency Hotlines and Rapid Response: the numbers to save today.
- How to Report an Incident: add what happened to the public record.
👁 Spotting ICE in the field
- How to Spot ICE · Plainclothes and Gear Patterns · ICE Vehicle Identification · Joint Operations With Local Police
🏛 Understanding ICE
- ICE vs CBP vs HSI vs ERO · 287g Agreements Explained · How Field Offices Operate · The 287(g) map · The detention map
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