About Us
The main focus of WSI’s Immigration Team is education and outreach: we distribute Know Your Rights flyers to immigrant communities and local businesses, helping spread vital information. And in the process we create valuable ties to our community here in West Seattle.
We organize Rapid Response and Bystander training for our members and communities. These teams are prepared to go where ICE goes and document those interactions for detainees legal defense. We stand next to our neighbors!
We collaborate with the Media Team to raise public awareness through short videos — sharing immigration statistics and interviewing participants at WSI events.
And we do other projects as the need arises. Immigrant deportation is a major focus of the Trump administration and there are constantly new attacks on our values and freedoms.
Volunteers are always needed and welcome!
The Immigration Team
Featured Video
Alexis Mercedes Rinck: On Immigration
Seattle City Council's Alexis Mercedes Rinck addresses the crowd at the July 26th Women's Rally (a Defund Tesla Women production ). She inspires Seattle to take action to protect our immigrant neighbors.
Valuable Resources
Ester Greenfield’s Immigration Resource List
Immigrant rights:
Immigration attorney Ester Greenfield spoke at our General Meeting in June, 2025 and left this amazing list of resources. .
Immigrant rights:
The Seattle Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs is a great place to start. Its website has links to a wealth of information about organizations that protect the rights of immigrants in Seattle and throughout Washington. It also has informational on topics including: Know Your Rights, applying for asylum, responding to workplace raids, and family safety if a family member is detained by ICE. See: https://www.seattle.gov/iandraffairs
Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network
Building Immigrant & Refugee Power in Washington State
Know Your Rights Poster & Judicial Warrant Sample in 11 languages
These folks are committed to defending immigrant and refugee communities from deportation while advocating for meaningful, systemic change. Their work focuses on both deportation defense and pushing for policies that ensure justice for all Washingtonians. Many West Seattle Indivisible members have taken their Rapid Response Trainings- giving us information and direction about how best to STAND UP to ICE!
WAISN Hotline to report I.C.E activity: 1-844-724-3737
Know Your Rights Resources for Immigrants, Refugees, and Advocates
A good place to start for resources put together by the City of Seattle
This 2025 OIRA resource webpage is intended to inform and support community members, City departments, and community-based organizations, partners, and service providers who are working to support immigrant and refugee communities in Seattle and Washington state and help keep all our residents safe. Gerneral issue areas:
National Lawyers Guild – Seattle
“Law for the People”
LAWYERS with the National Lawyers Guild are here to SUPPORT PROTESTORS!
They do this in three super supportive ways:
They monitor police behavior and provide legal support to protestors,
They offer Know Your Rights trainings, and
They provide free jail hotline support, helping protestors who are jailed find legal representation.
Northwest IMMIGRANT RIGHTS Project – Seattle
“We believe access to justice shouldn't depend on where you are born or how much money you have.”
Northwest IMMIGRANT RIGHTS Project keeps families together, protects people from violence and stands up to justice. Their work is comprehensive and focused on promoting Dignity, Fairness, Solidarity, Self-Determination, Safety & Inclusion. Check out their website to learn about their activities and where you can register for free informative monthly webinars for immigrants and their loved ones, service providers and community members.
Their Vimeo channel has more than 73 videos, in multiple languages. We have included these 3 samples.
OIRA KYR English Portuguese 01_2025
LCYC / NWIRP Immigration Safety Plan Training
OIRA KYR Spanish 01_2025
United We Dream
The largest Immigrant Youth-Led Network
AWESOME & Hope-inspiring WORK!
These folks support and empower youth to access legal status and higher education, at the same time nurturing a steadily growing stream of immigrant youth activists who have become politically engaged through high school and campus organizations, national coalitions, internet blogs, and youth projects within immigrant rights organizations.
This page gives you practical advice about what to do if Immigration Agents come to your home, your job, or approach you on the street. Prepare. Defend. Record, Report!
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC)
ILRC’s vision is a DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY that values DIVERSITY and the RIGHTS OF ALL PEOPLE.
ILRC’s mission is to:
Improve Immigration law and policy
Expand the capacity of Legal service providers
Advance Immigrant Rights
ILRC trains attorneys, paralegals, and community-based advocates to support immigrants around the country; inform the media, elected official and the public to promote effective and just immigration policy and law; and work with grassroots immigrant organizations to promote civic engagement and social change.
They offer a lot of resources including downloadable signs to help you let your local communities know that you stand with them!
Important Dates in November
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Nov 14: THE DETENTION LOTTERY: An Immersive Theater Experience
Friday, November 14, 2025
Tme: 1pm
An English Language performance
Livestream on ADSRadio.org,
also YouTube, Facebook, X, and Twitch
The Detention Lottery takes us where family, friends, and cameras cannot go: the all-but-secret detention courtroom. We hear desperate conferences between attorneys and their clients, and as one judge put it, “life-and-death decisions made in a traffic court setting.”
Since 2018, The Detention Lottery has captivated audiences, raising thousands of dollars for immigrant justice projects around the state. Suitable for middle-school children and older.
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Resistance Lab with Rep. Pramila Jayapal
Sunday, November 16, 2025
11:00 AM 1:00 PM
via ZOOM
The Resistance Lab is a series of trainings that are developed specifically for this moment. We offer frameworks to understand authoritarianism, non-violent movements, and incorporate interactive conversation with others to help create community and build our resistance.
The Resistance Lab was developed with experts who have researched and studied democratic backsliding around the world and the non-violent movements that have emerged to challenge those authoritarian leaders. We also draw from many toolkits for effective tactics and frameworks as well as from Pramila’s own background leading successful organizing movements for economic and social justice for two decades.
Sign up here: https://www.mobilize.us/pramilaforcongress/event/821134/
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Saturday, November 22, 2025
8:45 AM 12:45 PM
via ZOOM
Nonviolence trainers Pam Smith and Mary Lou Finley will be sharing what they have learned during this participative event.
Agenda:
Protest and noncooperation: how they work together, drawing on examples from the civil rights movement, current stories, and movements in other countries
How ordinary people can work in their own ways to make a difference–and have made a difference around the world—especially with strategies of noncooperation.
For more information and to register
(pay what you can): https://wwfor.org/2025-wwfor-fall-conference/#Features