Date: October 16, 2024
Time: 2-3 PM ET / 11 AM-12 PM PT
Cost: Free (Registration required)
In 2017, advocates across the country developed innovative responses to the Trump administration's emphasis on mass deportation. Years before, the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP), in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), began to gather vital insights around ICE policing, surveillance, and arrests through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and litigation as ICE raids started to grow under the Obama administration. It allowed us to help address the ongoing challenges facing immigrant communities even under a Trump administration. These lessons learned from the GW Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations not only inform immediate strategies to resist the mass deportation mobilization outlined in Project 2025, but also offer long-term approaches to combat the escalation of deportation and detention of immigrants since the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2002.
What You’ll Learn:
Insights from Three FOIA Projects:
ICE Home Raids and Policing Trainings: Discover how ICE’s deceptive arrest tactics erode community trust and how advocates can respond.
Citizens Academy: Explore the dangers of DHS’s training and propaganda programs that promote violence against immigrants and how this affects broader community safety.
Operation Palladium: How DHS has planned to quickly and easily ramp up internal immigration policing without checks from Congress or the Courts.
FOIA as a Tool: Understand the potential and limitations of FOIA in advocacy efforts.
Lessons Learned from Community Responsive Data Collection: Strategies for gathering information about destructive ICE policing actions and incorporating trends into advocacy.
Why Attend?
This webinar is vital for immigration advocates, organizers, and funders. We’ll discuss how to utilize data collection and community feedback to shape effective strategies in an uncertain political landscape, whether under a Trump or Harris administration.
Registration Details:
Reserve your spot today! This webinar is free, but advance registration is required.
Call to Action: After the webinar, we encourage participants to incorporate our findings into their strategies and share the materials we've developed, including FOIA productions and our Raids Map. Your support is crucial to sustaining our ongoing work in immigrant advocacy!
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from our collective experiences and build a stronger foundation for the immigrant justice movement. Together, we can create a more just and equitable future for all!
