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 Video 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.
Contact us: immigration@westseattleindivisible.com
Volunteers are always needed and welcome!
The Immigration Team
Featured Action
La Resistencia volunteers meet two-three times per week at the King County Airport to monitor the ICE flights coming into and leaving KC Airport. They count the number of detained individuals on the flights, observe the physical conditions of those individuals, and bear witness. The information they gather is then shared with other organizations, policy makers, and the public. They are in need of volunteers. To volunteer or learn more, contact Guadelupe at ndfo@laresistencianw.org .
Featured Video
Alexis Mercedes Rinck: On Immigration
Seattle City Council's Rinck addresses the crowd at the 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
Adopt A Day Laborer Corner
Get Involved
We are calling on all allies and people of conscience to Adopt a Day Laborer Corner in your local community.
Here’s what NDLON is asking:
Go to your local Home Depot, where immigrant day laborers are at extreme risk of harassment and arrest. Choose a location convenient to you, where day laborers gather and commit to showing up regularly. Be present. Be consistent. Build relationships and offer protection. Remember: Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo. Only the people save the people. That has always been true—and never more than now. We can and should be standing together in the face of injustice—peacefully, powerfully, with love and care. We don’t need to feed their violence, we need to build community.
Adopt-a-Corner toolkit here!
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 this Winter
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Rally & Walk
Sunday, December 28, 2025
Tme: 12 PM - 2 PM
Colman Ferry Dock (sidewalk in front) (map)
Come join us Dec 28th to ring in the New Year with song, music, & signs that reflect YOUR resolution to save democracy. Consider bringing your favorite protest sign from 2025 to wave. Feel free to dress for the occasion (the more sparkle the better!), bring noise makers, and be ready to share ideas for actions you can take as we head into 2026.
This event is a precursor to a WSI & Evergreen Resistance’s “We’re Still Standing” Rally and March on January 24th, when we will chronicle all that has changed in the first year of this administration.
Meet at the south end of the Colman Ferry Dock to walk north about a half mile (flat surface) to the Salish Steps amphitheater for a rally.
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Protest ICE Deportation Flights
Thursday, January 15, 2026
9:30 AM - 9:30 PM
KCIA/Boeing Field (map)
Join us for a massive, peaceful, and non-violent protest of ICE deportation flights at King County International Airport (Boeing Field). Sponsored by La Resistencia, Southend Indivisible, Seattle Indivisible Civil Resistance, West Seattle Resist, and a currently-gathering coalition of organizations.
Thousands of Washingtonians are being abducted by ICE, ripped away from their families, and flown away - cruelly cuffed hands and feet the entire flight - to countries they may not have been to for decades or ever, often sent towards almost certain violence, torture, or death.
This event is timed for when a deportation flight is likely to fly in and out. Bring your voice, your feet, and your powerful, eye-popping signs as we stand in solidarity with all those impacted.
Sign up here.
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Resistance Lab with Rep. Pramila Jayapal
Sunday, January 25, 2026
11 AM - 1 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