Activities & Ways to Support Our Immigrant Neighbors

School Preparation
Help ensure all Lincoln County schools are prepared for interactions with DHS agents with policies, signage, guidelines for staff and teachers, notices to parents and students, drop-off/pick-up patrols.

Business Preparation
Contact businesses, libraries, YMCAs in Lincoln Co to educate them, offer resources, ask them to post signage banning/limiting ICE, Know Your Rights posters, offer red cards, etc. We Need a Team Leader!

Healthcare Venues
Contact healthcare providers to see if they have plans to protect workers and patients.

Activities You Can Do On Your Own

Write Letters-to-the-Editor to your local and other newspapers. Get tips on how to write them from the Freedom Forum.

Call/email your members of Congress demanding action. Use the "5 Calls" website to help guide you.

Call/email your state legislators demanding passage of LD2106 and other legislation to support immigrants and restrain ICE/USCBP.

Print and disseminate educational materials in public places. Hang posters wherever it's legal, hand out red cards and other small handouts at public events, rallies, school drop-off/pick-up.
RED CARDS
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
MAINE ICE WATCH HOTLINE
MAINE ICE WATCH HOTLINE—S.A.L.U.T.E.
VARIOUS SIGNS

Help Your Neighbors

If they are concerned about leaving their home, offer to pick up groceries for them; create carpools to transport them or their kids to school, work, and appointments; make sure they know their rights and have a plan. Visit the Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition Resource Hub for resources.

Teach and Mentor
Use your skills to teach others how to do things like write a letter to the editor, organize a "call our members" get together, form a small group of friends or neighbors to take on a task. The more mutual support we offer, the more people will gladly join us.

Attend Rallies and Protests

Carry signs supporting our immigrant neighbors, and demanding justice for those harmed by ICE. Ask your local law enforcement leaders to implement policies prohibiting officers from calling USCBP or ICE during law enforcement encounters. Organize friends or neighbors to come rally with you. Help expand our numbers on the street.

Volunteer Efforts That Support Ongoing Maine Efforts

Report ICE to the Hotline: 207-544-9989.

Save this number in your phone! Take note of: Size, Activity, Location, Uniforms, Time, Equipment (S.A.L.U.T.E.). Only if it's safe, take photos and video.

Train to be a Hotline Operator

Learn to coordinate ICE verification efforts and direct callers to various resources. Bi-lingual operators especially needed! If interested please send your name and contact information to 72_descent_among@icloud.com.

Donate Money or Volunteer

Train to be an ICE Watch Verifier

Learn to safely verify ICE presence and actions in real time. If interested please send your name and contact information to 72_descent_among@icloud.com and we will pass it on to the coordinators.

Report intimidating and excessive federal enforcement behavior to the Maine AG's Office. CitizenReporting.OAG@maine.gov.

Maine Solidarity Fund

Bail funds, legal fees, etc.

Presente!

Provides food and material support.

Community Organizing Alliance

Provides food and other support in Lewiston.

Community Relief Fund

Bail funds, legal fees, etc. in Waldo and Kennebec Counties.

Mainers for Humane Immigration’s Freedom Fund

Supports bond funds.

Families in Crisis Fund