Immigrant Defenders Law Center
@immdef.bsky.social
Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef) is a next-generation social justice law firm that defends our immigrant communities against injustices in the immigration system.
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Hello & welcome new followers! Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef) is a next-generation social justice law firm that defends our immigrant communities against injustices in the immigration system. Share our profile w/friends & follow us to learn how to support the fight for due process for all.
If confronted by #ICE remember you have rights, regardless of language, race, job, or immigration status.
Prep is protection. For resources to protect and defend yourself and neighbors visit; ImmDef.org/resources 💻
#KnowYourRights
Prep is protection. For resources to protect and defend yourself and neighbors visit; ImmDef.org/resources 💻
#KnowYourRights
January 17, 2026 at 6:13 PM
If confronted by #ICE remember you have rights, regardless of language, race, job, or immigration status.
Prep is protection. For resources to protect and defend yourself and neighbors visit; ImmDef.org/resources 💻
#KnowYourRights
Prep is protection. For resources to protect and defend yourself and neighbors visit; ImmDef.org/resources 💻
#KnowYourRights
Our immigration system should welcome - not punish - people following the law. Under Trump’s mass‑deportation agenda, even those attending routine hearings are detained. “It’s bad policy,” said ImmDef CEO Lindsay Toczylowski. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Mamdani demands release of New York council employee detained by US agents
Mayor decries ‘assault on our democracy’ after employee detained during ‘routine immigration appointment’
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Our immigration system should welcome - not punish - people following the law. Under Trump’s mass‑deportation agenda, even those attending routine hearings are detained. “It’s bad policy,” said ImmDef CEO Lindsay Toczylowski. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Join us Wed, Jan 28 at 6pm PT for a virtual Know Your Rights workshop covering constitutional rights, ICE encounters, and provide SoCal resources.
Knowledge is power and rights belong to everyone, regardless of status.
Register here: ⤵️
https://tinyurl.com/3yh4sknk
Knowledge is power and rights belong to everyone, regardless of status.
Register here: ⤵️
https://tinyurl.com/3yh4sknk
January 14, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Join us Wed, Jan 28 at 6pm PT for a virtual Know Your Rights workshop covering constitutional rights, ICE encounters, and provide SoCal resources.
Knowledge is power and rights belong to everyone, regardless of status.
Register here: ⤵️
https://tinyurl.com/3yh4sknk
Knowledge is power and rights belong to everyone, regardless of status.
Register here: ⤵️
https://tinyurl.com/3yh4sknk
Nearly 90 people are home because of the Detained Immigrant Bond Fund (CLUE Justice). The fund liberates community members and reunites them w/family but the fund is empty as bonds reach $10K+. Bring people home. 🔗 cluejustice.org/bond
https://youtube.com/shorts/YdmBBUF-OHE?feature=share
https://youtube.com/shorts/YdmBBUF-OHE?feature=share
January 14, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Nearly 90 people are home because of the Detained Immigrant Bond Fund (CLUE Justice). The fund liberates community members and reunites them w/family but the fund is empty as bonds reach $10K+. Bring people home. 🔗 cluejustice.org/bond
https://youtube.com/shorts/YdmBBUF-OHE?feature=share
https://youtube.com/shorts/YdmBBUF-OHE?feature=share
Join our virtual Know Your Rights webinar at 6pm PT to learn about your constitutional rights, what to do if you encounter ICE, and available resources in Southern California.
Knowledge is power—no matter what, you have rights.
Sign up here ⤵️: https://tinyurl.com/2ex6m54m
See you there.
Knowledge is power—no matter what, you have rights.
Sign up here ⤵️: https://tinyurl.com/2ex6m54m
See you there.
January 12, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Join our virtual Know Your Rights webinar at 6pm PT to learn about your constitutional rights, what to do if you encounter ICE, and available resources in Southern California.
Knowledge is power—no matter what, you have rights.
Sign up here ⤵️: https://tinyurl.com/2ex6m54m
See you there.
Knowledge is power—no matter what, you have rights.
Sign up here ⤵️: https://tinyurl.com/2ex6m54m
See you there.
We joined ACLU to press Congress to REJECT add'l funding for ICE & Border Patrol & demand that any appropriations bill for DHS restrains & requires accountability from these agencies.
https://www.aclu.org/documents/coalition-letter-urging-congress-to-refuse-to-fund-ice-without-reforms
https://www.aclu.org/documents/coalition-letter-urging-congress-to-refuse-to-fund-ice-without-reforms
January 12, 2026 at 6:44 PM
We joined ACLU to press Congress to REJECT add'l funding for ICE & Border Patrol & demand that any appropriations bill for DHS restrains & requires accountability from these agencies.
https://www.aclu.org/documents/coalition-letter-urging-congress-to-refuse-to-fund-ice-without-reforms
https://www.aclu.org/documents/coalition-letter-urging-congress-to-refuse-to-fund-ice-without-reforms
This is what community care looks like: la comunidad cuidando a la comunidad. During ICE raids across SoCal, #FuerzaRegida donated merch proceeds to orgs like ours - helping us provide legal rep and keep families together.
Thank you for standing with immigrant families.
Thank you for standing with immigrant families.
January 9, 2026 at 11:39 PM
This is what community care looks like: la comunidad cuidando a la comunidad. During ICE raids across SoCal, #FuerzaRegida donated merch proceeds to orgs like ours - helping us provide legal rep and keep families together.
Thank you for standing with immigrant families.
Thank you for standing with immigrant families.
🕯️Today we mourn #ReneeNicoleGood and stand with faith leaders, neighbors, and community organizations to say clearly: no agency, no administration, and no officer is above the law.
January 8, 2026 at 11:32 PM
🕯️Today we mourn #ReneeNicoleGood and stand with faith leaders, neighbors, and community organizations to say clearly: no agency, no administration, and no officer is above the law.
The brutal murder of this young mother in Minneapolis is the latest devastating reminder of the chaos and danger unleashed when ICE is allowed to act with impunity. There is no public‑safety justification for armed agents to terrorize communities and point guns at civilians.
January 8, 2026 at 1:32 AM
The brutal murder of this young mother in Minneapolis is the latest devastating reminder of the chaos and danger unleashed when ICE is allowed to act with impunity. There is no public‑safety justification for armed agents to terrorize communities and point guns at civilians.
Thank you @minakimes.bsky.social for standing with immigrant families and helping uplift our communities! ❤️
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Get yours today: immdef.org/shop
January 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Thank you @minakimes.bsky.social for standing with immigrant families and helping uplift our communities! ❤️
Get yours today: immdef.org/shop
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
Esta sesión cubrirá:
✅ Derechos constitucionales
✅ Encuentros con ICE
✅ Recursos en el sur de California
Regístrate hoy: ⤵️
https://tinyurl.com/2ex6m54m #KnowYourRights
January 5, 2026 at 11:18 PM
✨ 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
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
#NoImmigrantStandsAlone
January 1, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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
#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
December 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
#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
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
December 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#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
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
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
December 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
#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
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
Donate: cluejustice.org/bond
December 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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
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.
December 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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
His freedom came from relentless advocacy and a community that showed hope and collective action can defeat injustice.
#NoImmigrantStandsAlone
December 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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
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.
Help keep this family and others like them moving forward.
Learn how at immdef.org.
December 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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.
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
December 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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
Donate now: Immdef.org/Donate
December 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
💙 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
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
Knowledge is power and every person deserves dignity and hope. 💙🫂
Learn more: ImmDef.org/resources
December 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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
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...
🔗 youtube.com/shorts/6OEqx...
MS Now News - Julio César Peña
YouTube video by Immigrant Defenders Law Center
youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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...
🔗 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/
🔗 https://lapublicpress.org/2025/12/ice-deportation-immigration-holidays/
December 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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/
🔗 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. 🎧⬇️
December 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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. 🎧⬇️