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Immigrant Legal Resource Center

Working with and educating immigrants, community organizations, and the legal sector to help build a democratic society that values diversity and the rights of all people
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Local Policy Interventions for Protecting Immigrants

Local policies are the main drivers of policing, prosecution, and the deportation machine. This resource provides examples of effective policy language localities can use to protect community members.

Projects and Networks

California Regional Network Hubs for Immigrant Families

The Regional Network Hubs for Immigrant Families (RNH) is a statewide initiative to support the coordination of legal services, education and information, and other services to immigrant families in 11 regions of California.

Immigrant Justice Network

The Immigrant Justice Network (IJN) engages in advocacy, education, technical assistance, training, communications, and litigation to address the needs of those caught in the intersection of the criminal justice and immigration systems.

New Americans Campaign

The New Americans Campaign (NAC), a project of the ILRC, is a nonpartisan, groundbreaking national network of legal-service providers, faith-based organizations, businesses, foundations and community leaders that is paving a better road to citizenship.

United Coalition for Immigrant Services

United Coalition for Immigrant Services is a partnership between two collaboratives comprising 16 organizations that provide free and low-cost immigration legal services to children, families, and older adults in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties.

Latest Press Releases

Latest Items - Explainers, Advisories, Comments and Toolkits

Resources
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Publication Date
06/04/2026
ICE issues two kinds of " immigration warrants," a "Warrant for Arrest" Form I-200, and a "Removal Warrant" Form I-205. These annotations explain what the warrant forms say and how it relates to ICE policies around arrests and enforcement.
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Publication Date
06/04/2026
This detailed memo analyzes the authority of ICE administrative warrants. The memo discusses the statute and regulations authorizing ICE warrants, the process for issuing them, and the Fourth Amendment implications. The memo also discusses how existence of administrative ICE warrants does not confer immigration authority onto local and state law enforcement officers.
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Publication Date
06/04/2026
This short summary explains what ICE warrants (also called administrative immigration warrants or civil immigration warrants) do, and links to resources for further information and analysis.
Practice Advisory
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Publication Date
06/02/2026
This practice advisory, authored with our partners at the End SIJS Backlog Coalition, Children's Immigration Law Academy, Make the Road New York, National Immigration Project, Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network, and Safe Passage Project, offers strategies at every stage of an SIJS client’s removal proceedings to advocate against the client’s removal and to preserve the record for appeal.