Since the start of the second Trump administration, advocacy and legal groups have scaled up their efforts to inform immigrants about their constitutional right to demand a warrant if federal agents come knocking at their door.
But it’s growing increasingly difficult to inform immigrants of their rights when those rights are being chipped away, the groups say.
“We can provide all this information about ‘here’s what your rights are, by the letter of the law,’ and these things that we as lawyers held to be true for so long, or we thought we held to be true for so long, and they’re just being completely shattered right in front of our eyes, day by day,” said Julia Decker, policy director at the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota.