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.
Support us: immdef.org
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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.
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
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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. 🎧⬇️
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
December 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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...
🔗 www.10news.com/news/local-n...
Internal watchdog report raises concerns about conditions inside immigration holding facilities
An internal government watchdog that conducted surprise inspections at four short-term immigration holding facilities in the San Diego area found sanitation and other standards weren’t always met.
www.10news.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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...
🔗 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
🦋 Help keep families together: immdef.org/donate
December 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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
🦋 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
December 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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
December 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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
El acceso a información clara y confiable es una de las herramientas más poderosas que podemos brindar.
🔗 Regístrate aquí: qrco.de/SWCRC
December 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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
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...
❤️Help Families: immdef.org/donate
youtube.com/shorts/LCb01...
This Is About Humanity Holiday Part 2025
YouTube video by Immigrant Defenders Law Center
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December 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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...
❤️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. ❤️🎁✨
For a day, hardship gave way to hope. Thank you #ThisIsAboutHumanity for helping kids simply be kids. This is resilience. ❤️🎁✨
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
✨ 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. ❤️🎁✨
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...
www.levernews.com/trump-is-poi...
December 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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...
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.
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.
December 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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.
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/
Read more: https://www.levernews.com/trump-is-poised-to-privatize-legal-aid-for-migrant-children/
Trump Is Poised To Privatize Legal Aid For Migrant Children
Internal documents suggest Trump aims to undercut a key program for unaccompanied children and potentially outsource those legal services to a for-profit ICE contractor and Angelina Jolie’s NGO.
www.levernews.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
🚨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/
Read more: https://www.levernews.com/trump-is-poised-to-privatize-legal-aid-for-migrant-children/