If you are looking to stand up, stand your ground, and protect our community, here is a curated guide to grassroots organizations, vital resources, and immediate actions you can take today.
Ice Out of Baltimore!
Sanctuary, Solidarity & Action
In the Hundred Acre Wood, we hold each other close when the shadows grow cold & frightening. Now the real world is demanding the same. With no super hero coming to save the day, we must save each other.
Looking for ways to help?
Support Local Sanctuary Networks
Expose & Report Abuse
Demand Accountability
Protect Your Neighbors
Donate or volunteer with grassroots, immigrant-led organizations providing direct legal defense, bond funds, and mutual aid to families navigating the detention system.
CASA (CASA de Maryland)
CASA (CASA de Maryland)
The largest immigrant rights and advocacy organization in the Mid-Atlantic. They provide low-cost legal aid, organize on the front lines, and fight anti-immigrant policies at the local and state levels.
👉 Act & Support: wearecasa.org
Amica Center for Immigrant Rights
A vital legal lifeline operating directly inside Maryland and DMV detention facilities. They provide direct legal representation to adults and children, conduct legal orientations, and fiercely fight to secure bonds and releases.
👉 Act & Support: amicacenter.org
Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE)
Based right here in Baltimore City, AWE provides a nurturing community, safe housing, food security, and legal navigation support for asylum seekers and foreign-born survivors of human trafficking.
👉 Act & Support: asyleewomen.org
Sanctuary DMV / DMV Mutual Aid
An all-volunteer, grassroots collective providing direct emergency mutual aid (rent, groceries, emergency cash) to families whose loved ones have been detained or deported by ICE in the DMV area.
👉 Act & Support: sanctuarydmv.org
Amplify the testimonies of those held inside detention camps. Keep a fierce, unwavering spotlight on human rights violations so they cannot be hidden in the dark.
Freedom for Immigrants
An organization dedicated to abolishing immigration detention. They monitor conditions, run a national hot-line for detained individuals, and document human rights abuses to expose the reality of these camps to the public.
An organization dedicated to abolishing immigration detention. They monitor conditions, run a national hot-line for detained individuals, and document human rights abuses to expose the reality of these camps to the public.
👉 Learn More & Report: freedomforimmigrants.org
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Maryland
The ACLU actively investigates, litigates, and exposes systemic abuses, unlawful detentions, and unconstitutional conditions within local facilities.
The ACLU actively investigates, litigates, and exposes systemic abuses, unlawful detentions, and unconstitutional conditions within local facilities.
👉 Follow the Fight: aclu-md.org
Call your state and local representatives. Demand an end to ICE contracts, defunding of detention operations, and the immediate closure of these facilities.
Find Your Maryland Representatives
Input your address into the official Maryland General Assembly interactive lookup tool to instantly find your State Senator, State Delegates, and US Representatives.
Input your address into the official Maryland General Assembly interactive lookup tool to instantly find your State Senator, State Delegates, and US Representatives.
👉 Look Up Your District: mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/members/district
The National Immigration Law Center (NILC)
Provides policy updates, toolkits, and script ideas for effectively contacting lawmakers to advocate for immigrant justice and policy reform.
Provides policy updates, toolkits, and script ideas for effectively contacting lawmakers to advocate for immigrant justice and policy reform.
👉 Access Toolkits: nilc.org
Knowledge is a shield. Learn your rights, join community rapid-response networks, and stand firmly between ICE and your neighbors.
ACLU "Know Your Rights" Guides
Easy-to-understand, multilingual guides detailing exactly what to do if you are stopped by immigration enforcement, if ICE comes to your home, or if you witness a raid.
Easy-to-understand, multilingual guides detailing exactly what to do if you are stopped by immigration enforcement, if ICE comes to your home, or if you witness a raid.
👉 Know Your Rights: aclu.org/know-your-rights/immigrants-rights
United We Dream
The largest immigrant youth-led network in the country. They offer extensive toolkits on how to organize local defense committees, map out rapid-response efforts, and safely film ICE to document community defense.
The largest immigrant youth-led network in the country. They offer extensive toolkits on how to organize local defense committees, map out rapid-response efforts, and safely film ICE to document community defense.
👉 Get the Toolkits: unitedwedream.org
The Pooh Resistence Collection