TAKING ACTION

Influence change and legislation by speaking to elected officials about immigrant rights and reform. Call the congressional switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to your representative or senators.

Voice your support for immigrants at local town hall and school board meetings and in letters to the editor in your local newspaper.

Volunteer with a border relief agency or organizations responding to deportation raids, such as: Al Otro Lado, Catholic Charities Respite Center, Espacio Migrante, RAICES.

Help ensure that undocumented immigrants in your community know their rights by sharing the important information found here.

Take the time to listen and learn. When the opportunity arises, listen to the stories of immigrants, whether that’s through literature, films or conversations with immigrants in your local community. Listen to their stories. Learn about the challenges they face. Reevaluate your beliefs and assumptions.

RESOURCES TO CONTINUE LEARNING & TAKE ACTION

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Immigrants’ Rights Project: ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project is dedicated to expanding and enforcing the civil liberties and civil rights of immigrants and to combating public and private discrimination against them. Learn more about the current issues affecting undocumented immigrants and how you can help take action.

Coalition of Immokalee Workers:

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is a worker-based human rights organization internationally recognized for its achievements in fighting human trafficking and gender-based violence at work. The CIW is also recognized for pioneering the design and development of the Worker-driven Social Responsibility paradigm, a worker-led, market-enforced approach to the protection of human rights in corporate supply chains.

Community Agroecology Network: Non-profit organization with a mission to sustain rural livelihoods and environments in the global south through the integration of agroecology-based research, education, and development strategies.

Farmworker Justice
A nonprofit organization that seeks to empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their living and working conditions, immigration status, health, occupational safety, and access to justice

Fruits of Labor: Film’s official website

Grassroots Leadership
Grassroots Leadership works for a more just society where prison profiteering, mass incarceration, deportation, and criminalization are things of the past by working with communities across the nation to abolish for-profit private prisons, jails, and detention centers.

Migrant Justice
Migrant Justice’s mission is to build the voice, capacity, and power of the farmworker community and engage community partners to organize for economic justice and human rights. We gather the farmworker community to discuss and analyze shared problems and to envision collective solutions.

National Immigration Law Center: One of the leading organizations in the U.S. exclusively dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of immigrants with low income.

Student Action with Farmworkers
Student Action with Farmworkers is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to bring students and farmworkers together to learn about each other’s lives, share resources and skills, improve conditions for farmworkers, and build diverse coalitions working for social change

United Farmworkers of America
Labor Union for Farmworkers in America.