We stand with Immigrant Families
At the core of nearly every faith tradition lies the concept of a just, harmonious, and loving society where all souls are valued and everyone can thrive. It is unconscionable that people fleeing violence in other countries would be deported back to those places, regardless of threats to their safety and security.
Because the Trump Administration is threatening immigrant communities across the country (regardless of documentation status), CLUE is working across Southern California to protect immigrant workers and their families in a variety of important ways.
You can join us in this work or support it with your donations knowing that you are doing your part to protect vulnerable people.
Current Initiatives
CLUE Rapid Response Networks
In coordination with our partners, like the LA and OC Rapid Response Networks (OCRRN & LARRN), CLUE is organizing our own nonviolent Rapid Response Networks of trusted clergy and lay leaders in Los Angeles and Orange counties.
Please sign-up to join our CLUE OC Rapid Response Network here.
Please sign-up to join our CLUE LA Rapid Response Network here.
We need folks who can respond with love in several ways:
1. COURTROOM OBSERVATION: Our network will coordinate to go at different times during the week (Mon-Fri) (dressed in clerical attire, please, if you’re clergy; business casual for lay leaders, with anything that signals your faith if possible) to observe the court hearings at the Immigration Courthouses in Santa Ana (1241 E Dyer Rd #200, Santa Ana, CA 92705) and DTLA (300 North Los Angeles Street, Room 4330 Los Angeles, CA 90012).
Doing so will A) signal to judges and ICE that we’re watching; B) we will be able to nonviolently accompany families who going through the worst day of their lives, or are fearful of something happening to them; and C) we will report back to RRN lawyers and organizers what we’re witnessing inside.
2. COURT ACCOMPANIMENT: Our network will respond as needed when we receive requests to accompany specific individuals to and from court.
3. ATTENDING VIGILS: We may begin hosting regular, nonviolent faith community vigils at the courthouse and/or elsewhere. (Stay tuned for more details.)
4. NONVIOLENT PROTEST AND ACTION AROUND THE COUNTY: In addition, we’re organizing and preparing for the possibility of having to act and support our partners in other forms of nonviolent protest beyond the courthouse.
Detained Immigrant Bond Fund
In partnership with ImmDef (Immigrant Defenders Law Center) CLUE is providing detained immigrants in Los Angeles and Orange Counties with the bond money that allows them to get out of detention, and return back to their lives and families while they build a case to gain status.
Know Your Rights Trainings
CLUE is offering Know Your Rights Train the Trainer trainings online and in person, in congregations and for our community partners.
Rapid Response Networks
If you see ICE Activity anywhere you go, you can report it to the Rapid Response hotlines in your area.
- Los Angeles Raids Rapid Response Network (LARRN) 📞 888-624-4752
- Covers: Los Angeles County
- Immigrant Defenders Law Center 📞 213-833-8283
- Covers: Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, and Imperial counties
- Hours: Monday–Friday, 9 AM–4 PM
- CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights)📞 213-353-1333
- Covers: Los Angeles County
- Boyle Heights Immigrant Rights Network 📞 323-922-5644
- Covers: Boyle Heights
- Koreatown Rapid Response Network 📞 323-894-1504
- Covers: Koreatown
- ORALE (Long Beach Community Defense Network) 📞 562-269-1083
- Covers: Long Beach
- Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice 📞 909-361-4588
- Covers: San Bernardino and Riverside counties
- Orange County Rapid Response Network📞 714-881-1558
- Covers: Orange County
- 805 Immigrant Rapid Response Network 📞 805-870-8855
- Covers: Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo counties
- San Diego Rapid Response Network 📞 619-536-0823
- Covers: San Diego County
CLUE Welcome Network
CLUE is cultivating its vast network of houses of worship to create a network of congregations that provide respite, and even longer-term shelter, to migrants released into Southern California.
Over 30 congregations are already participating in the CLUE Welcome Network that houses asylum seekers and refugees. We receive referrals from CHIRLA for asylum seekers in need of shelter, from legal service providers that are seeking sponsors for people being released from detention, or direct walk-ins. Some congregations in the network provide temporary shelter or short-term housing, and others support those efforts with gifts of supplies, transportation, etc.
If your congregation is interested in joining the network, offering housing or supplies or services, please contact Sithy Bin ([email protected])
Resources for Congregations
Under the Obama administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a memo informing its officers that they should not perform arrests in “sensitive locations” such as churches, schools, and hospitals. This also included events like weddings, funerals, and special religious services. This memo was reinforced by the Biden administration, which issued a “Sensitive Locations Policy” (also known as the “Protected Area Memorandum”). On Jan. 20, 2025, President Trump issued several executive orders that rescinded these protections.
ICE is now permitted to enter sensitive locations and perform immigration enforcement – including interrogations, searches, and arrests. In light of this reversal, congregations may now experience more interactions with ICE within their community spaces, and residences. Catholic Legal Immigration Network has put together two helpful resources for religious employers and workers on what you should know in the possibility of immigration agents showing up at your place of worship.
Immigration News
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Freedom Cruise Wrap and Next Steps
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DETAINED IMMIGRANT BOND FUND
Join us for prayer and song weekly in Orange County and Los Angeles.
WEEKLY IMMIGRATION VIGILS
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Def Justice – July 3, 2025
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Summer of Resistance
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PEACEFUL PROTESTS 101
Level up your ability to wholeheartedly engage in peaceful protest in the spirit of CLUE co-founder Rev. James Lawson. Join us for Peaceful Protest 101 in advance of No Kings Day protests. cluejustice.org/peacefulprotest101
June 9, 2025 – Song and Compassion at ICE protest
“We’re people of peace and we want peace, the president is forcing violence and provoking people. We know that in the end, nonviolence is way stronger than whatever the president is trying to provoke here. And ultimately we will win this because the people are more powerful than small-minded narcissists.”
URGENT IMMIGRATION CALLS TO ACTION
Demand dignity for all workers and freedom for David Huerta now.
Solidarity With Immigrant Siblings is Sacred
Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice educates, organizes, and mobilizes religious leaders and community members to walk with our immigrant siblings promoting dignity and respect for every one regardless of documentation status.
We can stand with them, because people like you support an organized and connected interfaith movement for a more just and sacred society.
Support CLUE’s immigration program today and extend an embrace of welcome.