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Essential Immigration Resources: Know Your Rights and Get Support
COPAL's curated hub of immigration know-your-rights resources and support lines, including their Navigators intake line, legal aid referrals, DOPA guidance, and policy-tracking tools.
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest: Guidance to Nonprofits Regarding Immigration Enforcement
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest's guidance (updated Sept. 2025) helping nonprofits prepare for immigration enforcement at their sites, covering scenarios like ICE visits, staff/client management, and subpoenas — written for a NYC context but broadly useful.
Fourth Amendment Rights for Organizations
A toolkit from the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, built from a training on Fourth Amendment protections, to help organizations understand their rights and prepare for immigration enforcement encounters at their offices.
A Guide for Employers: What to Do if Immigration Comes to Your Workplace
A joint guide from the National Immigration Law Center and National Employment Law Project explaining what employers can legally do (and not do) when ICE shows up at the workplace, including handling I-9 audits, raids, and warrants.
Immigration Resources Know Your Rights
Immigrant Law Center for Minnesota's know-your-rights guidance for immigrants and undocumented people on interacting with ICE and law enforcement, including the right to remain silent, decline searches, and carry a know-your-rights card.
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The Handbook for Constitutional Observers
A handbook from COPAL and the Immigrant Defense Network that trains community members to serve as Constitutional Observers — safely watching, documenting, and reporting on ICE and law enforcement activity without interfering, using the S.A.L.U.T.E. framework.
Protecting Human Services: Resilience Roundup
Human Services Council of New York's 'Resilience Roundup' — a series of crowdsourced disaster/crisis preparedness guides (e.g. for earthquakes, funding disruptions) for organizations and the communities they serve.
Nonprofit Legal Services Initiative
A free legal-services partnership between Minnesota Counicl of Nonprofits and LegalCORPS offering Minnesota nonprofits a legal help desk, compliance clinics, and one-on-one counsel on issues like grant terminations and IRS compliance.