This guide is based on the idea that community advocacy and support for an individual can stop a deportation, even when the person does not qualify for established forms of relief. There are many factors that determine whether someone will be removed from the country or not, but based on the work of community advocates around the country, we know that public support and a strategic campaigns can be the difference between a family staying together, and a family being broken up.
The following pages are meant to provide people in deportation proceedings, community advocates and organizers with tools, resources, and templates to organize public campaigns to stop individual deportations. Our goal is to concretely reduce the number of people in removal and detention, and to build the capacity of local organizations and regions to take on or strengthen their work against deportations.