Resources

• Community Update: Suspension of Immigrant Visas for 75 Countries (including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Pakistan)
• Community Explainer: How Political Discourse Targets South Asian, Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh Candidates
• Understanding the Effects of Policy Changes on the South Asian LGBTQ+ Community
• The First 100 Days and the Impact on South Asian Groups and Communities
• Community Explainer: Immigrant Students and Targeting on College Campuses
• Statement about Executive Orders from South Asian Groups (January 2025)

• Find a list of attorneys serving BAMEMSA communities here via Muslims for Just Futures.
• Find a list of South Asian serving organizations from South Asian Public Health Association here.
• Find community organizations and in-language service providers serving Asian Americans in your area via the Asian Resource Hub, a searchable directory from Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California and Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC (Link)
• Find information about Know Your Rights on a range of issues at the Community Defense Resource Hub, developed by Muslims for Just Futures (link).
• In-language forms and helplines:
  • Southern California: Asian Americans Advancing Justice. English: 888.349.9695; Hindi: 855.971.2552 
  • DC area: Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center. English: 202-393-3572; for South Asian language help, dial ext. 19.
  • New York/East Coast: Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Contact 212.966.5932.  
  • National Immigration Legal Services Directory with free/low-cost services (link)
  • Find a licensed immigration lawyer via the American Immigration Lawyers Association (link)

• How can my family prepare?
  • Go through a family preparedness checklist from the Immigrant Legal Resource Center here especially if you are a caregiver to children.
• What documents should I gather now?
  • Use this checklist from AAJC-SoCal. 
• I’m in a mixed-status family and need to understand the immigration process.
  • Use this toolkit form the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.
• What are my rights with immigration enforcement?
  • Print and carry a Red Card in 9 languages that you can give to immigration/enforcement agents to assert your rights: English; Punjabi; Arabic; Pashto.  
  • Know your rights when interacting with immigration enforcement (ICE): English; Hindi; Bangla; Urdu; Punjabi; Arabic.
  • How to handle law enforcement before and after arrests: visit Muslims for Just Futures’ (MJF) Immigration KYR Hub.
  • Print and post a DO NOT ENTER poster from MJF available in the following languages: English; Punjabi; Urdu; Hindi; Bangla; Nepali
  • Report ICE raids to your local community organization or to United We Dream at 1-844-363-1423. 
  • Download the Know Your Rights iPhone App from NAKASEC with resources in 16 languages, including Urdu, Nepali, Hindi, Bangla, and Farsi.
  • If you’ve been deported, use this post-deportation self-assessment guide from NIPNLG
  • For Nepali-speaking people, please see this post and video from Asian Refugees United. 
  • Asian Law Caucus 2025 Guide for Immigrant Communities
  • How To Find a Loved One After a U.S. Immigration Arrest (NILC)
  • What to Do if Arrested or Detained by Immigration (NILC)
• What are my rights as an undocumented person?
  • Undocumented and Protesting: see resource from United We Dream here
  • Undocumented and Renewals of DACA: see resource from United we Dream here
  • Travel Guidance for Undocumented Individuals 
• What are my rights as a refugee?
  • Read the guide from Refugees International on termination of parole. 
• What are my rights as a worker?
  • Understand basic rights for workers from AALDEF here (English) and Nepali (here)
  • Understand rights if immigration comes to the workplace here (National Employment Law Project)
  • Community Education Resources for Immigrant Workers (Asian Law Caucus)
• What are my rights as an international student?
  • Resource Portal for Higher Ed Immigrant Students and Institutions 
• What do I need to know about denaturalization?
  • Know Your Rights regarding Denaturalization (Muslims for Just Futures)
  • FAQs on Denaturalization (Asian Law Caucus) 
• What are my rights when it comes to language access?
  • Asian Law Caucus KYR on EO 14224 (English Language EO)
  • Alliance of Immigrant Survivors, Your Right to Translation and Interpretation Services
• What are my rights when traveling?
  • Immigrant ARC Digital Hygiene Checklist before Travel
  • CAIR Travel and Speech Guidance Guide
  • CLEAR’s Know Your Rights when Traveling

Understanding the 2025 Entry Ban 

• Read the Solidarity Statement opposing the entry ban signed by over 220 groups. 
• Resource Hubs
  • Muslims for Just Futures Authoritarian Ban Resource Hub 
  • Project Anar’s Legal Resource page
  • NIAC Action Resource Hub 
• Explainers
  • Muslims for Just Futures Community FAQs on the Entry Ban 
  • National Immigration Law Project Explainer 
  • American Immigration Council’s Analysis 
  • CAIR Community Alert
• What do I need to know about the registration announced by the new administration? How do I know if I need to register? 
  • Community FAQ from The Sikh Coalition
  • Informed Immigrant Guidance on Registration  
  • NILC FAQs on the Non-Citizen Registration Requirement from the National Immigration Law Center
  • AIC Blog: Trump’s New Registration Requirement Could Forcibly Separate Millions of Immigrant Families
  • ILRC’s FAQs on Registration

For information about potential executive actions involving bans on travel and entry: 

• Muslims for Just Futures Responding to the Authoritarian Ban Hub
• National Iranian American Council Travel Ban Hub 
• Asian Law Caucus FAQ
• NIAC FAQs on return of the Travel Ban
• Rapid Response KYR 
• Immigrant ARC Digital Hygiene Checklist before Travel
• CAIR Travel and Speech Guidance Guide
• CLEAR’s Know Your Rights when Traveling 
• Contact CLEAR: (718) 340-4558 | [email protected]
• Online reporting forms: CAIR | Asian Law Caucus

What can be done if ICE comes to my place of worship?

• Hindus for Human Rights: KYR for Mandirs 
• The Sikh Coalition’s Guide for Gurdwarae: English | Punjabi
• Muslims for Just Futures: Sanctuary Spaces Guidance 

• South Asian Network’s directory of resources relating to health and wellness benefits (California).
• Find a list of South Asian serving health organizations from South Asian Public Health Association here.
• Call 844-868-2812, a 24/7 Reproductive Healthcare Hotline for help with understanding your legal rights and how to find help with abortion care from If/When/How. 
• Read the Abortion Care Guide by South Asian SOAR, available in 20 South Asian languages.
• For South Asian LGBTQ Health, see this resource from SAPHA 
• For undocumented community members, see this resource from United We Dream

What do I do if I’ve been discriminated against, surveilled, or racially profiled or the victim of hate or bias? 

• Report discrimination, profiling, surveillance, bias, and other issues involving your civil rights to your local ACLU chapter, your local CAIR chapter, The Sikh Coalition or the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF) to report, including discrimination while traveling and in school. 

• Call 1-800-950-NAMI (6264) to find mental health support from trained counselors for resource referrals and crisis support on weekdays between 10am – 10pm ET or email [email protected].
• Join a support group, like this wellness support group for undocumented immigrants over the age of 18 or find a virtual support space through DoSAA.
• Use this online directory of AANHPI mental health providers to find culturally-specific support.

• What are my rights with law enforcement encounters? Know Your Rights from CUNY-CLEAR in English; Arabic; Bangla; Urdu; Farsi.
• My child is being bullied at school. See resources on school bullying and harassment (CAIR; SALDEF)
• I want to make a digital security plan. Make a Surveillance Self-Defense Plan here. 

• Learn about rights: https://stopaapihate.org/community-resources/ 
• Right to Protest Fact Sheet (Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund): In English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Vietnamese
• Protestor’s Rights Resource (American Civil Liberties Union): In English and Spanish
• Know Your Rights While Protesting Fact Sheet in English (Council on American-Islamic Relations Philadelphia) (CAIR’s multilingual hub provides additional know your rights resources in Bengali, Bosnian, Dari, Farsi, Pashto, Somali, and Urdu.)
• Know Your Rights While Protesting (Immigrant Edition) (National Immigration Law Center): In English, Spanish, Arabic, (Simplified) Chinese, Korean, Tagalog, and Vietnamese
• Protesting Guide (National Lawyers Guild): In English, Spanish, Arabic, and Farsi
• On-Campus Protesting Guide in English (National Lawyers Guild)
• Muslim for Just Futures’ Know Your Rights When Protesting
• Community Fact Sheet on Campus Advocacy and Recent Executive Actions (Muslims for Just Futures)

Someone I love is the victim of domestic abuse or gender-based violence. How can they get help?

• Contact local South Asian organizations for support (South Asian SOAR) and service providers with culturally-specific programs
• Access 150 US agencies with culturally-specific programs for survivors of gender-based violence at the API-GBV gender-based violence resource directory.
• Call 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or text ‘START’ to 88788 for free and confidential support and is available 24/7 in more than 140 languages through Language Line tele-interpreters. View State and Territory Coalitions here
• RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline: Confidential 24/7 Support
• South Asian Sexual and Mental Health Alliance Reproductive and Sexual Health resource hub 
• Join a virtual or in-person (NYC) support group for survivors hosted by Jahajee.

Where can I find supportive resources for South Asian people in the LGBTQ+ community?

• Trans Lifeline Resource Center: For trans people to connect to the community, support, and resources they need to survive and thrive
• Desi Rainbow Resources for the South Asian LGBTQ+ community and their loved ones 
• PFLAG LGBTQ+ Resources: A variety of hotlines to support the LGBTQ+ community
• DEQH: Desi LGBTQ+ Correspondence and Time-bound Helpline for ​South Asians

Learn strategies to stay safe and secure

• Security Due Diligence
  • National Council of Nonprofits Checklist 
  • Resources from Charity and Security Network  
  • Personal and Organizational Security 101. 
  • Digital Defense Fund’s 3 step guide for Org Security 
  • 18MR Resources
• Resilience Strategies
  • Read Muslims for Just Futures’ guide for grassroots groups with fiscal sponsorship, mutual aid networks, and bail funds to enact security practices and other strategies to stay protected.
  • MJF Guidance on Federal Prosecutions for Movement Groups
  • C&SN Resource Hub for Attacks on Civil Society Groups
  • Engage with Vision Change Win’s safety toolkits for nonprofits to stay secure.
  • Safety and Due Process for All: Messaging to Meet the Moment for activists and advocates to use when talking about immigrant rights and due process
  • Build a hotline – tech Platforms – Twilio | 3cx | Alt Tech | RR IO
• Policy Explainers
  • Building Movement Project: FAQs on Recent EOs: Nonprofits in the New Landscape 
  • Muslim for Just Futures (MJF): Guidance on Decoding Trump’s Authoritarian Orders on National Security
  • MJF’s MST Guidance: The Criminalization of Solidarity 
  • NILC Explainer on English Language / Language Access EO
  • Alien Enemies Act
    • Brennan Center Explainer, Report, and Video Explainer
    • Immigration Hub Factsheet | Asian Law Caucus Explainer 
• Strategize for the Future
  • Solidarity Resources from Solidarity Is at BMP
  • SELC’s Wealth Redistribution guide on giving money directly to individuals.  

Get Rapid Response Funding

• Organizations can seek rapid response funding from Solidaire Network, Democracy Protection Network, Emergent Fund, and North Star Fund.

• What is Gender-Based Violence (Manavi, Dec. 2024)  
• Community Briefing on Abortion & Reproductive Health Needs (South Asian Soar, May 2023)
• Understanding Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care (Sakhi for South Asian Survivors, July 2022)
• A Call for Conversation: Consent and Sexual Violence (SEWA-AIFW, July 1, 2022)
• The Reproductive Justice Framework for Muslims: A Preview (HEART, 2024)
• Understand Forced Marriage (Daya, Inc.)
• Indo-Caribbeans and Gender Based Violence (Jahajee)

• Understanding Elder Abuse (Sakhi for South Asian Survivors, May 2022) 
• Suicide Awareness in the South Asian Community (Raksha, September 2024)
• Unmasking An Invisible Community: Unique Influences On And Consequences Of COVID-19 Among South Asians In The United States (South Asian Public Health Association, 2020) 
• Beyond Do No Harm: 13 Principles for Health Care Providers to Interrupt Criminalization (Interrupting Criminalization, 2024)

• Hindu Supremacy 101 (Savera, 2024)
• The HAF Way to Supremacy (Savera, 2024)
• FAQs about Hindu Supremacy and Liberatory Hinduism (Hindus for Human Rights, 2024)
• Practice of Caste in the United States (Ambedkar King Study Circle USA, 2020) 
• What is the Concept of Supremacy? (Savera, 2024)

• Immigration Detention 101 (Detention Watch Network, 2024)
• Nepali TPS Holders Make Significant Contributions To America (Adhikaar, 2020)
• FAQ about Trump 1.0 and denaturalization (ILRC, 2018)

• Community Memorandum: Recommendations for A Foundational White House Islamophobia Strategy
• Understanding the National Strategy on Countering Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate:A Guide for Groups and Leaders
• Abolishing the War on Terror, Building Communities of Care (Heart, 2024)

• So Many Targets: Contextualizing Modern Indian Transnational Repression Against the Sikh Community (Sikh Coalition, 2024) 
• Virtually Vulnerable: Exposing the Human Cost of Digital Harassment (SALDEF, 2024)

• Building Power and Safety through Solidarity: Working Class Organizing in NYC during COVID-19 (DRUM NYC, 2020)

• Empowered/Imperiled: The Rise of South Asian Representation and Anti-South Asian Racism, Stop AAPI Hate (2024)
• Combating Bias, Bigotry and Backlash: Sikh American Policy Priorities, Sikh Coalition (2025)

• Understand the links between Hindu Supremacy and Zionism (18 Million Rising, 2024)
• Learn about the 1984 Union Carbide gas leak disaster in Bhopal, India and efforts by ASATA to pass legislation recognizing the devastating impact. 
• Learn about the 1984 Sikh Genocide and how the Sikh community is organizing to share the memory of the horrors faced by the Indian Sikhs due to religious supremacy.