Thank you @minakimes.bsky.social for standing with immigrant families and helping uplift our communities! ❤️ Get yours today: immdef.org/shop

✨ El conocimiento es poder. Únete al taller virtual sobre Conoce tus Derechos este lunes 12 de enero, 6:30 p. m. PST. Esta sesión cubrirá: ✅ Derechos constitucionales ✅ Encuentros con ICE ✅ Recursos en el sur de California Regístrate hoy: ⤵️ https://tinyurl.com/2ex6m54m #KnowYourRights

2025 tested our community, but it also revealed our strength. In 2026, we’ll keep defending immigrant rights, expanding access to legal representation, and building the future our littlest clients deserve. We’ll keep fighting!✨ #NoImmigrantStandsAlone

#2025Recap Even under relentless attacks, we stayed rooted in community empowerment. We expanded Know Your Rights trainings, ran asylum clinics, supported families through rapid response, and documented detention abuses. Community defense is collective. Support us: ImmDef.org

#2025recap When violent enforcement escalated, we responded with litigation and persistence. We challenged unlawful raids, fought to restore counsel for children, forced action on asylum cases, and showed up nationwide to demand accountability. This work continues. Support us: immdef.org

#2025Recap As enforcement escalated, we launched our Rapid Response team, became a regional trusted resource, & shifted resources to ensure ppl didn’t disappear into detention w/o legal support or connection to family. 💪 We are far from done, learn how to support: immdef.org

When raids began in SoCal in June 2025, ImmDef & CLUE launched the Detained Immigrant Bond Fund. We raised $850K, bringing 85 people home this holiday season. With average bonds at $10K, we can free just 5 more—unless you help us step up again. Donate: cluejustice.org/bond

Happy Holidays from #TeamImmDef. This year reaffirmed that change begins with people; those who show up w/ a commitment to protect immigrant communities. We’re grateful to be exactly where we need to be, alongside a community advancing dignity, due process, & social justice.

Benjamin Guerrero Cruz, 18, is home for the holidays after our legal team won his release from Adelanto ICE. His freedom came from relentless advocacy and a community that showed hope and collective action can defeat injustice. #NoImmigrantStandsAlone

A mother of several of our youth clients shared, "Thank you for considering us." Sometimes a simple act of consideration becomes the thing that carries someone through their day. Help keep this family and others like them moving forward. Learn how at immdef.org.

While many gather for the holidays, families like Vicente Ventura Aguilar’s are missing integral family members at the holiday table this year because of cruel ICE tactics. We're holding DHS accountable. Help us #FindVicente and reunite families: immdef.org/donate

💙 To everyone who has donated to ImmDef - THANK YOU! Your generosity is more than support; it’s solidarity. These donor testimonials say it best: standing up for the most vulnerable strengthens all of us. Donate now: Immdef.org/Donate

Detention isn’t the end. Discover how to seek release through a bond hearing for you or your loved one. Knowledge is power and every person deserves dignity and hope. 💙🫂 Learn more: ImmDef.org/resources

Julio is 43 & living w/end‑stage kidney failure that caused a heart attack & stroke. Instead of releasing him to pursue his case from home, ICE has him handcuffed to a hospital bed under guard. @msnownews.bsky.social 🔗 youtube.com/shorts/6OEqx...

On #InternationalMigrantsDay, we won't give up finding detained loved ones and defending them in court because #familiesbelongtogether. See what our Chief Program Officer Yliana had to say to LA Public Press. 🔗 https://lapublicpress.org/2025/12/ice-deportation-immigration-holidays/

Since October, unaccompanied children have remained in federal custody, without explanation, even after being approved to reunite w/ family. As Legal Services Dir. Mickey told @npr.org, reunifications have largely stopped, leaving kids confused and desperate. 🎧⬇️

Children belong with families, not in govt custody. ImmDef defends nearly 2K kids each year—because no child should face the immigration system alone. Hear their voices through their art. ❤️ Defend them: ImmDef.org/donate

1 yr after a surprise federal inspection at SD ICE prisons DHS’s Inspector General reports rundown conditions our team & clients know too well. “Findings matched what my clients reported,” said our Managing Atty. 🔗 www.10news.com/news/local-n...

Amid cruel immigration policies, ImmDef lawyers are lifelines—defending families & dignity, like our client who survived the Eaton fires. With our support she's rebuilding her life and ending the year with hope. 🦋 Help keep families together: immdef.org/donate

Through this year’s challenges, light shines when leaders stand with immigrants. 🌟 Thank you Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove for your partnership. We are humbled and honored to receive the inaugural Community Champion Award. Support us: immdef.org/donate

Our client, battling renal failure & seizures, was tackled in his driveway after dialysis and abducted by ICE. Now he's detained far from doctors & family, including a son in the army. For the sick, ICE custody is a death sentence. Help us bring him home: immdef.org/donate

Acompáñenos junto a LA County Office of Immigrant Affairs y #RepresentLA para un Taller de Inmigración este miércoles 17 de diciembre a las 12:00 p. m. PT. El acceso a información clara y confiable es una de las herramientas más poderosas que podemos brindar. 🔗 Regístrate aquí: qrco.de/SWCRC

Our clients have shown incredible strength this yr & this weekend, community matched it w/ love. Thanks to #ThisIsAboutHumanity & their powerhouse network of volunteers + sponsors, families left w/ everything they need for the holidays! ❤️Help Families: immdef.org/donate youtube.com/shorts/LCb01...

✨ This weekend, our community brought holiday cheer to families impacted by separation, giving toys, groceries, clothes, and essentials. For a day, hardship gave way to hope. Thank you #ThisIsAboutHumanity for helping kids simply be kids. This is resilience. ❤️🎁✨

Unaccompanied minors are among the most vulnerable in our care. They need zealous advocacy, not government efficiency metrics. Urge your elected officials to press HHS to maintain current services. www.levernews.com/trump-is-poi...

Deck the halls with the spirit of resistance ✊🏼🦋 Shop gifts with purpose at immdef.org/shop, CHNGE & www.hechoconganas.com/ Each item funds legal defense for families facing separation & detention. Your kindness becomes hope. Together, we bring justice home.

🚨We're sounding the alarm: privatizing legal aid for unaccompanied kids puts their lives & rights at risk. This RFP dismantles a network that has held the govt accountable for their abuses. Read more: https://www.levernews.com/trump-is-poised-to-privatize-legal-aid-for-migrant-children/

Don't guess. Don't wait. Get empowered! Access free immigration legal tools and resources: 🔗 immdef.org/resources

💪 ImmDef endorses the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act via @jayapal.house.gov @adamsmith.house.gov The bill ends mandatory & family detention, phases out private facilities, sets civil standards, & protects caregivers & vulnerable communities. Read More: jayapal.house.gov/2025/12/03/j...

The #DREAMAct has been introduced in the US Senate by Sen. Durbin & Sen. Murkowski. ImmDef proudly endorsed the introduction of The DREAM Act and continues to champion a solutions that offers a pathway to citizenship. 💙 #HomeIsHere #ImmDef

We have entered a dangerous era,” warns Dir. Atty Jennifer. Immigrants who prove they face torture are still being detained as ICE seeks “third-country removals.” 🔗 www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

When you give, we defend. Every dollar raised this #GivingTuesday provides free legal services to people in Southern California who face deportation. Your support fuels this fight. ❤️ Text GIVE2IMMDEF to 707070 or visit www.pledge.to/immdef-givin... Take a look at what we've achieved ⬇️

The U.S. has ordered a sweeping halt to asylum decisions, freezing protections for people who spent yrs doing everything the govt asked of them. "That pause will exacerbate an already spiraling backlog of pending asylum cases," said Chief Program Officer Yliana. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ImmDef was created for moments like this. When immigrant communities are under attack, our mission stands firm: No Immigrant Stands Alone. When you give, you make justice possible. ❤️ #GivingTuesday 🙏 Text GIVE2IMMDEF to 707070 or visit www.pledge.to/immdef-givin... youtube.com/shorts/DS8WM...

🚨¡Recordatorio! Nuestro Taller de Inmigración bilingüe con #RepresentLA será este jueves a las 6:30 PM PT. Es gratuito, virtual y abierto a toda la comunidad. 📲Asegúrate de inscribirte: tinyurl.com/4b2n4u52

🚨Reminder! Our bilingual Immigration Workshop with #RepresentLA is coming up this Thursday at 6:30 PM PT. It is free, virtual, and open to all! 📲Make sure you're signed up: tinyurl.com/4b2n4u52

We're profiled in @nytopinion’s 2025 Giving Guide! No one should face an unjust immigration system alone. Help us provide free legal services to immigrants, including children: Text GIVE2IMMDEF to 707070. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...

More than six weeks after Vicente Ventura Aguilar was taken by masked agents in South LA, his family still has no answers. They’ve searched hospitals, morgues, consulates & agencies across SoCal while DHS claims he was never in custody. 🔗@latimes.com: shorturl.at/pX0FU

This year, more immigrant children have been placed into federal custody than in the previous four years combined. This is a cruel failure. "These changes are adding up to a huge trauma," shared Legal Services Dir. Mickey w/ @propublica.org. 🔗 www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

It’s been a tough year, but little wins keep us going. A former youth client just gained lawful permanent residency thanks to protections we secured years ago. These moments remind us why we fight for dignity & justice. ❤️‍🔥 Give today: immdef.org/donate

We joined Rep. @daveminca.bsky.social , Rep. @chu.house.gov, & 43 Members of Congress in calling for answers after a record 25 deaths in ICE custody this year - more than any year on record. min.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Where is Vincent Ventura Aguilar? Pres. & CEO Lindsay Toczylowski joined @ms.now's Deadline: White House with David Noriega to discuss the case of our client, Vicente Ventura Aguilar, who has been missing for 45+ days after suffering a medical emergency in ICE custody. #FindVicente⬇️

A quieter border ≠ safer one. Since Trump took office, asylum pathways have been shut, leaving vulnerable people in danger. “Vulnerable people still exist,” says Staff Attorney Tracy Crowley. #AsylumIsAHumanRight 🔗 Read the full article: www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

A safe, equal world for children starts with due process. On #WorldChildrensDay, we’re reminded that thousands of kids still forced to navigate immigration court without an attorney by their side. We asked children why they migrated to the U.S., here's what they had to say ⬇️

New ORR rules are reshaping the family reunification process - & not for the better - by demanding increasingly invasive & burdensome documentation even when reunification is clearly in a child’s best interests. The result: prolonged custody for children who have loving family ready to receive them.

As LA County votes today on patient protections, remember Milagro. During a medical crisis, ICE remained inside her room and intruded on private care. “She said it felt like torture,” her atty shared. ➡️ Submit a public comment TODAY: bos.lacounty.gov/board-meetin...

En todo el país, la administración Trump está convirtiendo la reunificación familiar en un conducto hacia la detención—arrestando a los padres y tutores con quienes los niños esperan ser reunidos. 🔗 cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/11/14/e...

The Trump admin is turning family reunification into a detention pipeline by arresting the parents + guardians children are waiting to be released to. 🔗 www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/p...

BREAKING: A federal court has granted a preliminary injunction in Vazquez Perdomo v. Noem, affirming that people detained in DTLA’s B18 ICE processing building have a constitutional right to counsel. 🔗 www.immdef.org/blog/vazquez...

Every immigrant deserves clear information and real support. That’s why our Welcoming Project offers free in-person & virtual Know Your Rights sessions, pro se support, and trainings for caseworkers. 📲For FREE immigration resources, visit www.immdef.org/resources