Resources for Immigrants

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Immigrant & Refugee Rights

Know Your Rights: Immigration

The Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project provides these comprehensive factsheets on basic legal rights relating to immigrants in North Carolina to fill a …

Planning Guide for Families

The Emergency Planning Guide (2017) (English/Spanish) is intended to help immigrant families who are concerned that a family member may become unexpectedly separated …

Public Charge Rule

The federal government has published a draft rule that proposes to make radical changes to the existing policies, which previously allowed eligible immigrants to access critical health and nutrition support programs.

Access to Health Care

Is it Safe to Apply for Health Insurance and Nutrition Programs? Information for immigrant consumers on the safety, confidentiality, and privacy of applying …

ACLU

Know Your Rights: Immigrants’ Rights

  • Available in English and Spanish.
  • Provides general information about your rights with ICE and law enforcement.
  • Proffers different scenarios of encounters and describes different strategies, rights, and tactics to avoid.
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NAKASAC

"KYR 4 All" smartphone app

  • Available on Android and Apple.
  • Available in English, Spanish, Chinese, and more.
  • Has features such as an audio message that asserts your rights in English when encountering ICE and a feature that will text your emergency contacts in case of an ICE interaction.
Get the app
National Immigration Law Center

Resource Library: Know Your Rights

  • All resources available in English and Spanish.
  • Provides information to employers and workers regarding worksite raids, information about rights to access health care, what to do when arrested or detained by immigration officials, knowing your Constitutional Rights, and more.
Go to library
ACLU

We Have Rights Video

  • Available in English, Spanish, Urdu, Arabic, Haitian Creole, Russian, and Mandarin.
  • Describes what to do when encountering ICE at home, in your community, or under arrest.
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Carolina Migrant Network, Pisgah Legal Services, Enlace Latino NC

Conoce tus derechos: Lo que toda familia inmigrante debe saber

  • Available in Spanish only.
  • Covers federal immigration questions and some state-specific questions about HB10.
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Immigrant Legal Resource Center

Free “Know Your Rights” Wallet Cards

  • Available in English, Spanish, and many other languages.
  • You are authorized to print off and cut out your own wallet-size red cards if you are unable to formally order them.
Order wallet cards
Immigrant Defense Project

Know Your Rights with ICE

  • Many resources are available in English, Spanish, and many other languages.
  • Provides helpful, easy-to-understand infographics regarding your rights with ICE at home, on the street, in your car, in detention, and other circumstances.
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Immigrant Defense Project

Train-the-Trainer: Know Your Rights

  • Webinar about encounters with ICE, policing, surveillance, and other scenarios.
  • Available in Spanish and English.
View the webinar
Protecting Immigrant Families Coalition
  • Short, shareable video emphasizing that the law has not changed on immigrant access to benefits and programs.
  • Available in English and Spanish.
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