In recent years, federal immigration enforcement policies and practices, including increased reliance on state and local agencies for information about non-U.S. citizens, have swept an unprecedented number of people into the detention and deportation system.
These policies rip families apart, encourage racial profiling, and undermine due process. States and localities, too, have enacted laws designed to make life so difficult for immigrants that they are forced to go elsewhere. Through policy work and litigation, NILC challenges unjust enforcement-related federal, state, and local policies and laws whose main targets are low-income immigrants and their families typically in the Hispanic and Latino communities.
214 Release: Hindieh Law, PLLC, a trusted and respected servant to Hispanic and Latino families in Dallas, specializes in Crimmigration, wherein immigrants may be facing criminal charges that may adversely impact their immigration status and create a pending deportation action.
Immigration Enforcement Information
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
Enforcement Actions in or Near Protected Areas
Factsheet: The Department of Homeland Security’s “Protected Areas” Memorandum
Immigration Raids
- Backgrounder: Worksite Immigration Raids
- Lessons from East Tennessee: A Toolkit for Organizations Responding to Mass Worksite Immigration Raids
- Funding for ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Is Funding for Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda
- President Trump’s Raids on Immigrant Communities (facts and what you can do)
- Immigration Raids Alert: Prepare for Raids and Protect Yourself!
- Alerta sobre redadas de inmigración: ¡Prepárese para las redadas y protéjase!
- Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff (PDF)
Executive Order on Interior Enforcement
“Sanctuary” Policies: Enhancing Trust Between Immigrants & Local Authorities
- The Effects of Sanctuary Policies on Crime and the Economy (Tom Wong, CAP & NILC)
- How Much Funding for Sanctuary Jurisdictions Could Be at Risk? (AILA, CAP & NILC)
- Sanctuary City Toolkit (resources for advocates)
Secure Communities, 287(g), and Related Programs
COVID-19 Resources
Resources | COVID-19 Crisis and Consequences
Federal Enforcement & Information Sharing
- Factsheet: Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART): DHS is Building a Massive Database of Personal Information
- RESOURCE LIST: Immigration Enforcement–related Information Sharing and Privacy Protection
- Glossary: Immigration Databases, Information Sharing Systems, and Case Management Systems
- Cradle to Grave: DHS Builds System to Track and Surveil Immigrants and Impede Access to Lawful Status
- Stop Trump’s Midnight Surveillance Rule: Proposed Rule Would Track and Surveil Immigrants and Impede Access to Immigration Status by Expanding Biometrics Collections
- Nlets: Questions and Answers
- Untangling the Immigration Enforcement Web: Basic Information for Advocates about Databases and Information-Sharing Among Federal, State, and Local Agencies
- How ICE Uses Local Criminal Justice Systems to Funnel People Into the Detention and Deportation System
- Victimizing the Victims (When state and local agencies participate in immigration enforcement, victims and witnesses are put at risk)
- How U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement and State Motor Vehicle Departments Share Information
- How California Driver’s License Records Are Shared with the Department of Homeland Security
Enforcement in the Workplace: Employers’ Rights
What to Do if Immigration Comes to Your Workplace (a guide for employers)
Campus Safe Zones
- Model Campus Safe Zones Resolution Language: K–12
- Model Campus Safe Zones Resolution Language: Colleges & Universities
- Understanding the Sanctuary School and Safe Zone Movement: A Quick Guide for Educators (hyperlink is to Immigrants Rising website)
- Practice Advisory: The Legal Authority for “Sanctuary” School Policies
Arrest & Detention (Unaccompanied Children)
- The Orantes Injunction (requires DHS to uphold certain rights of Salvadorans in immigration detention)
- The U.S. Government’s Response to the Current Influx of Unaccompanied Children at the Border and Its Obligations Under Existing Court Orders (6/20/14)
- The Nationwide Perez-Fuñez Permanent Injunction Provisions for Unaccompanied Children in DHS Custody (PDF)
- Unaccompanied Children and Health Care
Right to Legal Counsel
- Blazing a Trail: The Fight for Right to Counsel in Detention and Beyond
- Advancing Universal Representation: A Toolkit for Advocates, Organizers, Legal Service Providers, and Policymakers (The Center for Popular Democracy, National Immigration Law Center, and Vera Institute of Justice)
- California’s Due Process Crisis: Access to Legal Counsel for Detained Immigrants (PDF) (California Coalition for Universal Representation)
Gang Databases
AB 90: More Welcome Fixes to California’s Gang Databases
State and Local Enforcement
- Along Racial Lines: The Genesis of Arizona’s SB 1070 Is a Cautionary Tale of Race-based Immigration Policy
- SB 1070: Lessons Learned (on the 4th anniversary of enactment of Arizona’s notorious anti-immigrant law)
Criminal Immigration – Crimmigration Defense Attorney at Hindieh Law
At Hindieh Law, our criminal defense attorney has experience defending Hispanic and Latino clients facing criminal charges. Our legal team is committed to providing clients in Dallas and surrounding areas, the best legal representation available. If you or somebody you know is facing criminal charges in Dallas or anywhere in Texas, call 214 Release: Hindieh Law, PLLC at 214-Release (214.960.1458) for a free confidential consultation today.