Know Your Rights
MCC Central States will be having a Know Your Rights “Train the Trainer” session, where we will equip one or two persons from each constituent congregation that registers to be ready to lead a Know Your Rights session in their community.
Open to individuals, churches and community organizations.
MCC CS Immigration Program Coordinator will be available over the phone or email to support as needed before or after they lead the Know Your Rights. This virtual training will help facilitate information to vulnerable immigration populations in our region.
Registration Link: https://forms.office.com/r/bPvhsuQXVw
Contact Information:
Abraham Diaz Alonso
Immigration Program Coordinator
MCC Central States
Background overview:
Since January 20, 2025, the U.S. government has made drastic immigration policy changes that have affected newly arrived immigrants (through various pathways) and have also put at risk the lives of current immigrants living in the U.S. with different immigration status. MCC’s partner organizations have guided our thinking into a response-awareness for protection of community members and churches – through Know Your Rights sessions.
A Know Your Rights session consists of three (3) things, preparing community members for interactions with law enforcement officials, creating a family preparedness plan, and preparing participants with detailed information in case of immigration detention. These sessions prepare community members who run the risk of deportation, family separation, and immigration detention and how to prepare their family in case any of these were to happen.
Community organizations, partners and churches have seen an increase in fear from deportation-threats from the U.S. immigration agencies, in specific DHS ICE and DHS CBP – in collaboration with local law enforcement agencies - and we see the need to continue to prepare community members to avoid going through these processes.
This virtual training will help facilitate information to vulnerable immigration populations.