What to Do if You Are Arrested or Detained by Immigration

Disappeared by ICE in L.A.: How to find detained relatives

Immigrant advocacy groups provide guidance on what you can do when a family member is detained by immigrant enforcement officials.

Know Your Rights | Enforcement at the Airport | ACLU

At the border, you are likely to encounter Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, and you may encounter Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents. HSI is part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Know your rights in these scenarios.

Community Alert: Immigration Arrests at Airports

This resource provides travel safety tips and other resources for immigrants traveling through U.S. airports.

Going Out to a Protest? Here’s How Not to Get Arrested.

Lawyer Isabella Salomão Nascimento on knowing your rights — and getting the cops to respect them.

Toolkit: Lost in the US immigration detention system — Freedom for Immigrants

Below are some scenarios where your friend or loved one might be depending on how they interacted with immigration enforcement:  

What To Do If ICE Stops You In a Car, On a Bus, Or In a Train ~ L.A. TACO

You can’t attempt to use your rights if you don’t know what they are. Knowing them may protect you against a forced abduction, search, or seizure when being pulled over or stopped in Los Angeles.

How to Find a Loved One After a U.S. Immigration Arrest

This guide will help you look for someone who was taken by immigration officers and may be facing deportation.

What to Do When You See ICE in Your Neighborhood

How can you deter the Trump administration's immigrant deportation machine when it pops up in your community? Follow these steps.

ICE Detention Trends | Vera Institute of Justice

Every year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) subjects hundreds of thousands of people to civil immigration detention—a practice that is unjust, inhumane, and completely unnecessary. It does so under a veil of secrecy, sharing only limited, often error-prone statistics with the public. ICE’s failure to regularly release accurate, complete, and accessible data to the public enables it to operate its multi-billion-dollar detention network with impunity and little oversight.

Immigration Enforcement Dashboard

Interactive dashboards visualizing ICE arrests, detainers, detentions, and removals across the United States.

USA: "We had whistles, they had guns": Human Rights Violations in U.S. Immigration Enforcement Operations and the Case to Abolish ICE - Amnesty International

Amnesty International has documented that, since taking office on 20 January 2025, the Trump administration has subjected migrants, asylum seekers and refugees to a wide range of human rights violations. The administration is implementing a mass detention and deportation system, fuelled by racist, xenophobic and false narratives and white supremacist theories, whose objective is to […]

USA: « We had whistles, they had guns »: Human Rights Violations in U.S. Immigration Enforcement Operations and the Case to Abolish ICE

Amnesty International has documented that, since taking office on 20 January 2025, the Trump administration has subjected migrants, asylum seekers and refugees to a wide range of human rights violations. The administration is implementing a mass detention and deportation system, fuelled by racist, xenophobic and false narratives and white supremacist theories, whose objective is to […]

ICE List Wiki

The ICE List Wiki is a public, verifiable record of immigration enforcement activity in the United States.

ICE List Wiki

The ICE List Wiki is a public, verifiable record of immigration enforcement activity in the United States.

How to protect your phone and data privacy at the US border

With reports of people being turned away at airports over messages found on devices, here’s what to do to minimize risks