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On Wednesday, January 22, 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Justice for Migrant Families and Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York hosted a webinar on how to use emergency litigation and community organizing to stop detention and deportation of people with final orders of removal who are required to check in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the Trump administration.
Justice for Migrant Families, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York work in partnership on behalf of people detained at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility in Batavia, New York, the state’s largest immigration detention facility. During the hour-long webinar, hosts discussed how lawyers and community organizers can work together to prepare individual litigation and advocacy campaigns ahead of ICE check-ins for people with final orders of removal.
Building upon the strategies discussed during our previous webinar, participants learned:
- How to prepare for an upcoming ICE check-in, including specific legal filings to make before and after a check-in;
- How community-based groups, grassroots organizers, and lawyers can work in partnership in gathering evidence for litigation, advocacy campaigns with ICE to stop deportation, and accompaniment at an ICE check-in; and
- How a previous example of emergency litigation in federal court after a check-in during the first Trump administration worked to stop deportation.