TIRRC’s ‘Know-Your-Rights’ sessions can be provided quickly in response to areas of urgent need.
‘Know-Your-Rights’ sessions provide immigrant communities across Tennessee with urgently needed information in response to the important issues currently facing communities.
Recent increases in anti-immigrant sentiment, anti-immigrant ordinances and legislation, and increased law enforcement attention has caused much uncertainty and confusion within the immigrant community. Many immigrants are unaware of what their rights are, and are unaware when their rights are being violated. Others are aware of violations, but are afraid to confront the perpetrators.
The recent rash of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids that have been taking place in across Tennessee, as well as the spread of the 287(g) program – which allows local sheriffs to enforce immigration laws in certain circumstances – has created an urgent need to increase the number and geographic scope of TIRRC’s ‘Know-Your-Rights’ training sessions. Workers and individuals faced with either raids or 287(g) are afraid to go to work, and those who are deported are often cruelly separated from their families. Accordingly, TIRRC has and will continue to hold know your rights training sessions in areas where raids and/or 287(g) policies are taking place.
TIRRC’s ‘Know-Your-Rights’ trainings are designed to:
TIRRC is also distributing (with the help of member groups) a variety of 'Know-Your-Rights' materials in multiple languages across the state.
If you would like to attend a ‘Know-Your-Rights’ training in your area or learn more about the program, please contact Leticia Alvarez at 615-833-0384 ext.104 or Leticia@tnimmigrant.org
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