TOOLKIT: PROTECT IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES

Updated 01.26.2026

  • Donald Trump’s mass deportations are ripping families apart, leaving children without parents, and shattering communities across the country. Millions of American families are being separated, or worse, facing the loss of a family member. ICE is terrorizing families and murdering people in our communities. We need to stop this. 


    This toolkit offers clear messaging, talking points, and actions to support those affected, amplify their stories, and equip advocates to fight for compassionate and just solutions.

    • Attempting to repeal birthright citizenship

    • Invoking emergency declarations to weaponize the military against immigrants

    • Forecasting possible invocation of the Insurrection Act and Alien Enemies Act

    • Recommitting to the harmful detention of immigrants

    • Seeking expansion of expedited removal

    • Expanding harmful local law enforcement entanglement with federal immigration enforcement

    • Seeking to punish sanctuary jurisdictions

    • Threatening to penalize individuals and defund organizations that help immigrant communities

    • Possible restoration or expansion of country-based travel bans

    • Separating families and endangering lives by ending parole programs

    • Scrutinizing Temporary Protected Status designations

    • Continuing to conflate immigrants with criminality

    • Complete and total border closure to asylum under racist “invasion” rhetoric

    • Systemic jailing of asylum seekers

    • Reinstatement of the “Remain in Mexico” program

    • Ending the CBP One App, leaving asylum seekers stranded

    • Suspending refugee admissions and resettlement

    • Designating gangs as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) to undermine asylum and legal migration

    • Trump is attacking immigrants and deploying ICE against protesters in a desperate attempt to provoke violence so that he can divide us. But we know better. 


    • For state accountability: It is time for [name GOP elected official] to finally stand up for us and stop these attacks on our freedoms and our communities, instead of folding to Trump and the MAGA extremists. 


    • America is stronger and better than the bleak and dystopian picture Trump paints for our future. Just as it always has been in this nation, America’s future is strengthened by immigrants.


    • We will protect immigrant communities. Immigrants built America. Immigrants are welcome here.


    • Key Message: Instead of finding real solutions, Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan rips families apart, leaves children without parents, and is shattering our local economy by removing people who have lived and worked here for decades.

    • The scope of what was announced and on display is more about division and scapegoating than advancing immigration and border solutions. In fact, as we saw during the first Trump term, these policies will fuel more fear, chaos, and cruelty.

    • Mass deportations will affect American families and communities.There are millions of mixed status families in America, including more than 5 million US citizens children who have an undocumented parent. Dreamers, and other long established immigrants and workers are at risk of deportation. Deportations will increase labor shortages, increase costs, and slow economic growth.

    • The attack on the 14th Amendment isn’t about reforming our immigration policy – they’re pushing to gut 150 years of settled law and hard-won progress by attacking birthright citizenship.

    • By targeting millions of hardworking and long-settled immigrants, Donald Trump threatens to undermine the local communities where they live and destabilize the economies they contribute to across the country.

    • Trump’s push to gut 150 years of settled law by attacking birthright citizenship seeks to reshape America’s future by moving this nation backwards.

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