Immigrant Defenders Law Center

Immigrant Defenders Law Center SoCal's largest deportation defense nonprofit law firm. Learn more: immdef.org

We provide free immigration legal services and advocate for a more just immigration system. .

Questions about ICE? Your rights? What to do if you or a loved one encounters immigration enforcement?We have several up...
10/06/2026

Questions about ICE? Your rights? What to do if you or a loved one encounters immigration enforcement?

We have several upcoming opportunities to get informed and connected.

đź“Ť Saturday, October 10 at 10 AM
Join us at Congresswoman Maxine Waters’ Town Hall at Compton College, where ImmDef will be available to answer immigration-related questions and connect community members with resources.
đź”— RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/2u9jvbh7

💻 Wednesday, October 21 at 6:30 PM — En Español
Taller virtual de inmigraciĂłn sobre derechos constitucionales, encuentros con ICE y recursos disponibles en el sur de California.
đź”— RegĂ­strate: https://tinyurl.com/m4bkjabr

💻 Thursday, October 22 at 6:30 PM — English
Virtual Immigration Workshop covering constitutional rights, encounters with ICE, and resources available in Southern California.
đź”— Register: https://tinyurl.com/dn83tsx

💻 Wednesday, October 28 at 6 PM — English / Español
Join us alongside team to learn about your rights and what to expect if you or a loved one is detained by ICE.
Acompaña al equipo de RepresentLA para conocer tus derechos y saber qué esperar si tú o un ser querido es detenido por ICE.
đź”— Register / RegĂ­strate: https://tinyurl.com/455wnzkj

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Concealing the location of people in ICE custody is disappearance by design. ICE’s unannounced September 15 decision to ...
10/01/2026

Concealing the location of people in ICE custody is disappearance by design. ICE’s unannounced September 15 decision to remove people with final orders of removal from its detainee locator system is a dangerous rollback of transparency and accountability, making it significantly harder for attorneys and families to determine where someone is being detained. “This is actually enforced disappearance by a government," our Directing Attorney, Paulina Reyes-Perariz, told L.A. TACO

If you are having trouble finding a loved one on the ICE detainee locator, read the article from L.A. TACO for tips from legal professionals.
đź”—https://lataco.com/final-removal-order-resource-guide

For free immigration resources, visit immdef.org/resources

The government’s failures should not come at the expense of children’s rights.Thousands of unaccompanied children are st...
10/01/2026

The government’s failures should not come at the expense of children’s rights.

Thousands of unaccompanied children are still being left to navigate an already punishing immigration system amid what our co-counsel Amica Center for Immigrant Rights called “chaos that is fully the government’s own making.”

ImmDef and our partners are continuing to show up in court—and alongside the children we represent—because we refuse to let government dysfunction become their burden. We have an ethical and moral obligation to protect their rights, defend their due process, and fight to ensure no child is forced to face this system alone.

Children’s rights are not optional. Neither is the government’s obligation to protect them.

Read more via Law360: https://www.law360.com/articles/2530780/feds-defend-handling-of-legal-services-for-migrant-kids

ImmDef has spent years meeting each new attack on immigrant communities with the same resolve: adapt, keep fighting, and...
10/01/2026

ImmDef has spent years meeting each new attack on immigrant communities with the same resolve: adapt, keep fighting, and stay alongside our clients. Today, that work is being tested by sweeping enforcement, warrantless arrests, detention, and sustained attacks on the funding and legal infrastructure that make representation possible. And yet, through every shift—from the Muslim Ban to today’s rapidly changing immigration landscape—our team has continued to show up, defend due process, and protect access to counsel.

As ImmDef President & CEO Lindsay Toczylowski told Mother Jones, “We were on the front lines of all of those struggles.”

That history of resilience continues to shape how we meet this moment and how we keep fighting for every person’s right to be heard, represented, and treated with dignity.

📲 Read more via Mother Jones: tinyurl.com/4c4e8j3v

Si se encuentra detenido en el centro de detenciĂłn de ICE de Adelanto, tiene derechos. Si enfrenta condiciones perjudici...
09/30/2026

Si se encuentra detenido en el centro de detenciĂłn de ICE de Adelanto, tiene derechos.

Si enfrenta condiciones perjudiciales, represalias o maltrato, documente lo sucedido y comunĂ­quese con los abogados de la demanda colectiva L.T. v. ICE. Alzar la voz puede ayudar a protegerle a usted y a otras personas.

📨Correo electrĂłnico: [email protected]
đź“ž LĂ­nea confidencial: (323) 763-5356 (no es gratuita)
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If you are detained at the Adelanto ICE prison, you have rights.

If you experience harmful conditions, retaliation, or abuse, document what happened and contact the L.T. v. ICE Class Counsel lawyers. Speaking up can help protect you and others.

📨Email: [email protected]
đź“žCall the confidential line: (323) 763-5356 (not toll-free)

09/29/2026

Hidden away in a remote stretch of desert 100 miles north of Los Angeles, amid sweltering heat, empty lots, and miles of isolation, sits the largest ICE detention facility in the state: the California City ICE detention center. The desolate location creates significant barriers to family visits, attorney access, and community oversight.

"This is supposed to be the land of the free, but look where I'm sitting," a detained client told our legal team on a recent visit to the ICE prison. That contradiction should trouble all of us. That day our attorneys were the only people there to bear witness. Even while lawyers are often the primary safeguard against abuse in immigration detention, meaningful accountability requires all of us to defend the constitutional rights of every person, regardless of immigration status.

❤️ Help us defend immigrants in ICE detention: immdef.org/donate
đź’™ Help relieve the financial burden of detention: tinyurl.com/commissaryfund
đź’™ Support the release of community members through immigration bond assistance: cluejustice.org/bond

Nearly 200,000 children have been ordered deported since Trump returned to the White House according to The Guardian. Le...
09/24/2026

Nearly 200,000 children have been ordered deported since Trump returned to the White House according to The Guardian.

Legal pathways for vulnerable kids aren't just closing, they're being shut before they ever get a fair chance in immigration court. Stephen Miller's cruel vision for children in the immigration system is centered on destructive policies like family separation, prolonged detention, elimination of independent legal representation, and a rollback on trafficking protections. If children have to lose their rights for his immigration mass deportation agenda to succeed, it was never about safety.

Defend children: tinyurl.com/protect-kids

09/24/2026

Our heritage is our strength, it is our resilience, it is our superpower.

This Hispanic Heritage Month we're sending love to every member of the Latiné community who continues to choose joy, pride, and belonging in the face of relentless attacks on our communities. Protect your joy. Reclaim your power. Take up space.

Thank you to This Is About Humanity for joining us this weekend to distribute groceries and essential goods to clients and families in need.

Special thanks to Eva Longoria Baston , Arturo Castro, Curly Velasquez for using their voices at a time when many feel pressured to stay silent.

How do you celebrate your culture? Tell us in the comments👇

09/23/2026

Military families are being failed by a cruel and punitive immigration system that disregards their service and sacrifice. Today, our team traveled to Washington, D.C., alongside Senator Ron Wyden, Senator Tammy Duckworth and our partners to demand that the federal government keep its promises to those who have served this country. We fight for families like Julio's because no service member should have to spend their leave battling ICE's attacks on their loved ones at home. Our veterans deserve care, dignity, and stability, not deportation. Military families belong together, free from detention and fear. It's time to remove barriers to Military Parole in Place and ensure military families receive the protections and support they have earned.

LULAC
Repatriate Our Patriots
FWD.us
Austin Kocher, PhD
AFU Action
American Business Immigration Coalition - ABIC
Forward Latino Common Defense

09/22/2026

Our community is built through action, and we left Ambiente y Café feeling hopeful about what is possible when people choose to show up for one another. 🧡

So many of the conversations we had came back to the same idea: people want to help, but sometimes they just need to know where to start. That can look like sharing resources, speaking up, giving back, or simply making sure our neighbors know they are not alone.

This Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re reminded that our heritage is more than something we celebrate. It is something we care for together, because celebrating our heritage also means celebrating and protecting the people who carry it forward.

Thank you for creating a space for us to come together, connect, and show up for our community. 🫶🏽

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