Presidents' Alliance Resources
Date postedApril 2, 2025
Resources from Presidents' Alliance
- Travel Emergency Preparedness Plan for Individuals Traveling within the U.S. (Presidents' Alliance, March 2025) This is a template that goes into detail about what documents to have available in case of a travel emergency, personal information to share with a trusted contact, and other considerations.
Detention and Deportation Defense
This section includes information and resources about how to prepare against and act effectively if immigrants are detained or have a deportation order.
- Help for People in Detention or Facing Deportation (Informed Immigrant) This resource provides an overview of what to expect if someone is detained or is experiencing a potential deportation, how to locate a loved one if they have been picked up or transferred to ICE, and more.
- How to Visit Someone in Detention (Detention Watch Network) Introductory guide to immigration detention visitation for those wishing to volunteer to visit detainees and provide them with friendship and company.
- Deportation Defense Manual (Make the Road New York) This manual provides information, resources and a guide to create a plan of action to protect targeted communities against hyper enforcement perpetuated by ICE.
- Step-by-Step Family Preparedness Plan (Immigrant Legal Resource Center, November 2024) This Resource Toolkit goes into detail about different childcare options available in case of an absent parent, where to find trusted immigration services in your community, and how to prepare to assert your constitutional rights in the presence of an immigration officer.
- Immigration Preparedness Toolkit (Immigrant Legal Resource Center, April 2020) This free toolkit offers in-depth, yet easily accessible information that outlines the basics about a variety of topics including: your rights during ICE confrontations, the different types of immigration options available, ideas for building your consultation roadmap, and tips on covering your bases while waiting for relief.
- Know Your Rights Resource Library (Informed Immigrant, November 2024) This resource library provides information on immigrant defense, KYR for various scenarios, how to use a red card, how to prepare for an immigration raid and what to do if someone you know gets arrested.
- Deportation 101 (Immigrant Defense Project)Deportation 101 is a training tool that educates and builds the capacity of immigrant and criminal justice service providers, immigrant leaders, and community organizers to respond to their members' and clients' needs as they interact with the criminal justice system.
- Differences between ICE, ISAP, and Immigration Court (Innovation Law Lab, January 2022) This Innovation Law Lab resource is an explainer video outlining the difference between ICE, ISAP, and Immigration Court.
Legal Support
In this section you can find information and resources that help individuals access available and reputable legal services.
- How to Find an Immigration Lawyer (Informed Immigrant) This guide provides information on how to find a good immigration lawyer, where to find one, how to prepare to meet with a lawyer, and how to avoid fraud.
- Find a Service Organization Near You (Informed Immigrant) Find legal providers, social workers, community organizers and others by zip code.
- Find an Attorney (National Immigration Project) National Immigration Project attorney search network by state.
- AILA Private Immigration Lawyer Search Tool (American Immigration Lawyers Association) Find legal providers by state.
- iAmerica: Legal Services Search Tool (iAmerica) Find legal providers by zip code.
- National Immigration Legal Services Directory (National Immigration Law Center) You can search for immigration legal services providers by state, county, or detention facility. Only nonprofit organizations that provide free or low-cost immigration legal services are included in this directory.