Join Immigrant Defense Project for a free webinar on the future of immigrant rights advocacy. Center for Constitutional Rights Open Records Project Manager Ian Head will join this webinar of expert panelists to discuss lessons drawn from over a decade of tracking ICE raids and using public records requests to empower communities and build advocacy strategy.

This webinar is vital for immigration advocates, organizers, and funders. Panelists will discuss how to utilize data collection and community feedback to shape effective strategies in an uncertain political landscape, whether under a Trump or Harris administration.

This webinar is free, but advance registration is required. 

Topics:

• Insights from Three FOIA Projects:
  • ICE Home Raids and Policing Trainings: Discover how ICE’s deceptive arrest tactics erode community trust and how advocates can respond.
  • Citizens Academy: Explore the dangers of DHS’s training and propaganda programs that promote violence against immigrants and how this affects broader community safety.
  • Operation Palladium: How DHS has planned to quickly and easily ramp up internal immigration policing without checks from Congress or the courts.
• FOIA as a Tool: Understand the potential and limitations of FOIA in advocacy efforts.
• Lessons Learned from Grassroots Data Collection: Strategies for gathering information about destructive ICE policing actions and incorporating trends into advocacy.

Panelists:

• Marie Mark (Moderator): Executive Director of IDP, with extensive experience in defender support and immigration law.
• Mizue Aizeki: Executive Director of the Surveillance Resistance Lab, focused on ending injustices at the intersection of migration control and criminalization.
• Genia Blaser: Director of Hotline at IDP, specializing in immigration penalties of criminal legal system contacts and community monitoring of ICE activities.
• Ian Head: Open Records Project Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights, with expertise in FOIA and its applications for racial and immigrant justice.