This page features a small sampling of available resources on immigration justice. (See also the Immigration Organization links page, linked on the sidebar.)
Relevant even when it isn’t the holiday season, this November, 2025 article from Global Refuge may be helpful: 5 Tips for Having Difficult Conversations about Immigration this Holiday Season
Tips include: actively listen, listen for common ground, ground your statements in stories, accept when you should leave it, and do your research.
Immigrant Welcoming Conference
Link to the Immigrant Welcoming Conference page for additional resources, including links to recordings of online Immigration Justice workshops and information on other ways the Wisconsin Conference is living into its identity as an Immigration Welcoming Conference.
Wisconsin Council of Churches
Immigrant Welcoming Congregations toolkit (UCC National, updated in 2023)
“Know Your Rights” (KYR) and other materials for immigrants and allies
- March, 2025 KYR presentation by the Wisconsin Council of Churches and Voces de la Frontera (includes information on making a family plan)
- ACLU “Immigrant’s rights” webpage
- Protesters rights (Updated january, 2026)
- ACLU of Wisconsin’s KYR page includes links to videos
- Slides from January, 2025 presentation, “Immigration and Faith Communities”
- Centro Hispano Community Resources webpage, including KYR videos and family planning documents in English and Spanish
- Community Immigration Law Center (CILC)’s Legal Resources page includes links to information on the registration requirement and KYR and other documents and videos
- ILRC “Know your rights” pdf handout (4 pages, updated 4/2024) and downloadable red card in multiple languages
- “Informed Immigrant” website
- This January, 2025 blog post summarizes “Know Your Rights” (KYR) resources
- “Denaturalization Know Your Rights (KYR) Resource: Understanding Revocation of Citizenship” (February, 2025)
- Link to the ICE’s “Online Detainee Locator System“: “Use this page to locate a detainee who is currently in ICE custody or who has been in U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s custody for more than 48 hours. Online Detainee Locator System cannot search for records of persons under the age of 18.”
For congregations and clergy
- UCC Faith Community Immigration Strategy and Resources 2025
- Immigration Enforcement Action: What Churches Need to Know (by Heather Kimmel, General Counsel, UCC) February, 2025
- ACLU of Wisconsin Checklist: What to do if ICE agents arrive at your place of worship
- Ladder of Engagement for Immigration Advocacy and Action (from the Episcopal Immigration Caucus’s Migration with Dignity 2025 Toolkit)
- Access a recording of the January, 2025 webinar, “Immigration, Congregations, and Ministry in 2025,” co-hosted by the Clergy Emergency League and Wisconsin Council of Churches, here.
- This January, 2025 blog post about immigration ministry in 2025 may also be helpful.
- Additional resources that may be of particular interest to clergy may be found on the website of the Clergy Emergency League
Driver licenses for all
Wisconsin Coalition for Safe Roads: Organizing tool kit includes FAQ section on immigrants driving legally
Sanctuary
- Oregon New Sanctuary Movement Faith and Immigration Study Guide
- The Sanctuary Movement and Legal Risks, from the United Church of Christ Office of General Counsel (2016)
- Sanctuary Not Deportation: A Faithful Witness to Building Welcoming Communities toolkit (~2017)
Children’s educational resources
- Unitarian Universalist’s 2012 Children’s Immigration Sessions
- Youth simulation on the refugee crisis (Catholic Relief Services, 2015)
- Passages-older children’s refugee simulation guide (PDF)-UN Refugee Agency
- Ideas for children’s books about immigration and refugees: