Defending Human Rights During Trump 2.0 | December 2024

On Tuesday, December 3, 2024, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the ACLU of Louisiana, and the Southeast Dignity Not Detention Coalition hosted a webinar to explain how emergency federal court litigation together with community organizing can be used to defend immigrant communities during the incoming Trump administration. During our one-hour webinar, the hosts discussed how to fight back against imminent deportation and detention through temporary restraining orders, preliminary injunctions, and other individual-case litigation in conjunction with organizing strategies like coalition-building, political education & awareness campaigns, release campaigns, establishing detention visitation networks, and grassroots advocacy programs. During the webinar, participants learned: The nuts-and-bolts of how to seek emergency relief from federal courts, including where to access template legal filings; How to identify facts to support legal claims to stop deportation, including in cases where people are facing retaliation for activism; awaiting adjudication of a visa before USCIS; have severe medical or mental health issues; have a claim to unaccompanied child status; or were ensnared by illegal enforcement practices during work-site and other raids; and How lawyers and grassroots organizers can collaborate on individual campaigns to stop deportation and in longer-term movements to hold the US government accountable for systemic human rights abuses. Learn more about RFK Human Rights' U.S. Advocacy & Litigation work: https://rfkhro.org/3CVYQBQ