Immigrant Legal Resource Center

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.

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Issues/Areas of Expertise

Asylum

Citizenship and Naturalization

Post-Conviction Relief

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.      

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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

Press Release

GOP-controlled Congress Continues to Ignore Human Rights Issues as House Votes to Give ICE $70 Billion MORE in Funds

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to give ICE $70 billion more in funding, on top of the $170 billion already allotted to the agency.

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Texas’s Regressive State Deportation Law, SB 4, is in Full Effect

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has greenlighted SB 4, Texas's hateful deporation law, to go into full effect.

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Latest Items - Explainers, Advisories, Comments and Toolkits

FAQs & Explainers

Resources

What Noncitizens and Citizens Should Know About Protecting Your Online Presence: Social media hygiene in a hostile immigration landscape

Publication Date

06/05/2026

This explainer offers information for both noncitizens and U.S. citizens about the possible impacts of their social media online presence.

FAQs & Explainers

Resources

A Deep Dive into the Dangerous 287(g) Task Force Model

Publication Date

06/05/2026

As 287(g) agreements rapidly expand across the country, more law enforcement agencies are being radically transformed into a sweeping immigration enforcement machine. Police agencies are choosing to enter into the most expansive and harmful 287(g) agreement available, the Task Force Model. This policy brief provides a breakdown of the Task Force Model and how it provides carte blanche for rampant racial profiling, unbridled civil rights abuses, and little to no federal oversight.

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Resources

Guide to Filing Your First Habeas Corpus Petition: Northern District of California

Publication Date

06/04/2026

This step-by-step guide will walk you through the steps for filing your first petition for habeas corpus (immigration) in the Northern District of California.

Resources

Legal Analysis of ICE Warrants

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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ICE Warrants Basics

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.

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Annotated ICE Administrative Warrants

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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