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Love Not Raids A Webinar for Educators and Students’ Support Staff
Love Not Raids A Webinar for Educators and Students’
Support Staff
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Goals
Learn the impact of raids & ICE in our
communities
Learn essential tools & remain
proactive
Learn about opportunities to make change with & for our
communities
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Interact with us!
MATERIALS
Check e-mail post webinar!
SOCIAL MEDIA@unitedwedream #LoveNotRaids
QUESTIONS
To ask questions use your chat box and or Twitter
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Agenda:
1. Introductionsa. UWD & Our Work
2. Raids & their impact 3. Know Your Rights4. Taking Action & Being Proactive5. Q&A6. Tools & Resources
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Presenters
Mizraim Belman, ULI & DD Austin
Maria Treviño, UWDH & DD Houston
Eric Cruz, C4D & DEEP
Varun Khattar, C4D & DEEP
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Presenters
Carolina Canizales, Deportation
Defense Organizer
Laura Bohorquez, Education Equity Organizer
OUR NETWORK“Building People Power”
Organizing | Resources | Action
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OUR NETWORK!
55 affiliates in 26 states
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Dream Educational Empowerment Program (DEEP)
“Advocating for education equity beyond access”
unitedwedream.org/deep
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Deportation Defense (DD)
Fight back the deportations &
criminalization of our communities!
unitedwedream.org/deportationdefense
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#WatchICE
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POLL! Do you know what Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) does?
a. Yesb. Noc. I don’t know
What is going on with raids?
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POLL! Are raids currently happening in your community?
a. Yes b. Noc. I don’t know!
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Kimberly
SIGN HER PETITION! notonemoredeportation.com/portfolio/kimberly
Why are raids happening?
DHS Deportation PrioritiesIn 2014 DHS issued a memo with their 3 new priorities for deportation; category 3 included anyone who came to the country after
January 1, 2014
DHS Raids Announcement!
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Central Americans, a target?• 100K+ Central
Americans have fled violence since 2014
• No good asylum policies
• 30 Mexican
Impact of Raids
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POLL!
How many raids do you think have taken place so far in 2016?
a. 50b. 150+c. 316d. 525
DHS Report vs. UWD Report
• 121 arrest• 71 children, 50 adults• El Salvador, Honduras,
Guatemala & Mexico
States (7): Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia
• 319 calls • 81 reports of ICE in public
spaces, not just homes
States (13): Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, California, Washington, Oregon, Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Iowa, Kansas, Illinois
Impact on our communities
What you, parents & students
NEED TO KNOW!
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When ICE is at your home:
DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR!
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When ICE is at your home:
If an ICE officer comes to the door
a. DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR
b. Right to remain silent!c. Slide the KYRs card
under the door
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Types of Warrants:
Administrative Judicial
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When ICE agent is at a street or school bus stop:DO NOT RUN!
Am I being detained?
Am I free to go?
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When ICE agent is at a street/school bus stop:
1. Right to remain silenta. Am I being detained? Am I free
to go?b. Give the KYRs Card to agent
2. First Name only 3. No attorney, no answers
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ICE at your school:
1. School = sensitive location 2. Right to remain silent 3. Deny entrance to ICE,*** if no warrant***
Examples of schools that have taken action!
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Socio-emotional Support
• One educator and several volunteers at a high school in Willimantic, CT built and sustain a community of healing, support, and empowerment!
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NC Teachers Advocate!
1. 6 NC students were picked up by ICE on their way to school
2. Durham Public School passes resolution
Wilden Acosta
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UWD Letter to DHS to Stop the Raids!
On January 20, 2016 UWD, AFT, and NEA sent a letter to DHS demanding to stop the raids along with 280 educators
National Institutions Coming Out Day- April 7th
PLEDGE!unitedwedream.org/NICOD
Q & ATo ask questions use your chat box or Twitter
@unitedwedream #LoveNOTRaids
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POLL
In case of a deportation or raid in your community or school what tools would make you feel more prepared to take action?
i. Know Your Rights Videosii. Know Your Rights Pamphletsiii. Love NOT Raids: A guide for educators and support staff iv. Deportation Defense Hotline Trainingv. Tips for parents on creating a family plan for immigration
enforcement and/or other emergencies
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Tools/ Resources
1. Know Your Rights Materials/ Flyers 2. Examples of School Letters on Raids/
Resolutions on ICE Raids3. UWD Hotline to report these incidents4. Toolkit for institutions to come out in
support of undocumented youth #NICOD
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Take Action with UWD! 1. Join our listserv NOW! TEXT “LoveNotRaids” to
8778772. Commit to do a KYRs session at your school/
classroom, email [email protected] to get you set up!
3. By March 31st, let us know if your school does or does not have an ICE raid policy in place and or what you are doing to support your students; email [email protected]
