The IPA+ Immigrant Rights team, launched in July 2025, meets monthly to organize various projects aimed at protecting immigrant neighbors from the threat of arrest, detention, and deportation. Areas of focus include distributing Know Your Rights cards and other resources, business canvassing to help companies create safe spaces for immigrant employees, and helping to monitor ICE activity in communities such as East Palo Alto.
Below is a list of publicly available resources to help support immigrants in our community. Laws in this field change quickly. Use these resources only as a starting point, and not as a substitute for legal advice.
Immigrants have certain constitutionally protected rights. Because Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents often attempt to ignore those rights, providing immigrants with clear, easily accessible information about their rights is essential.
Protesters who are immigrants or who are supporting immigrants have constitutional rights as well.
Immigrants can make sure that they are ready to act if ICE or other federal agents detain a member of their household.
Rapid response networks (RRNs) respond to ICE raids and detentions in our communities. Upon learning of reported activity, an RRN will immediately dispatch trained legal observers. If an immigrant is detained, an RRN will work to provide free legal assistance.
In the Bay Area, RRN hotlines are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Each Bay Area county has its own RRN hotline.
| County | Phone |
|---|---|
| Santa Clara County | (408) 290-1144 |
| San Mateo County | (203) 666-4472 |
| San Francisco County | (415) 200-1548 |
Do not share unverified ICE alerts. False reports of ICE presence cause panic. Instead, notify the appropriate RRN through its hotline number.
Reaching people who have been detained by ICE can be difficult. Here are tools that can help.
Community members can support immigrant rights by helping to record and report ICE activity in their area.
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