001simp [Music] to e [Music] good [Music] uhhuh [Music] for e e spee spe good evening thank you you all for coming for our January Family Academy um we're very appreciative for all those who are here in person and to those watching live stream uh we want to say thank you to our family resource tables who are here to um support our families special thank you to Family Services Catholic Charities and Source Hub all of which are here with resour to help you I just want you all to know that we also have um caregiver at the DAV available with notaries free of charge if anybody would like to take part in filling those out for your families our presenter tonight is ID Massachusetts immigrant and Refugee advocacy Coalition um thank you so much for coming
002um we're it's always an honor to have our Community Partners here to educate our families welcome thank you can everyone hear me okay yes okay uh my name is Jessica I work at mea and I'm an immigration lawyer I've been an immigration lawyer for about 18 years so I come to you with a lot of knowledge that I hope to share I first want to talk a little bit about our organization um has been around for a long time and we are an advocacy organization so we work to try and change the laws to try and change the policies to make the life of all immigrants and refugees and the lives of everyone in Massachusetts better we also provide free legal Health with citizenship so if you already have a green card and you want
003to take that fin final step to become a US citizen we can help you for free I've been asked to come here tonight to talk to you about your rights when it comes to having contact with immigration I want to say very clearly that these rights belong to all of us regardless of the immigration or citizenship status that we have and that's important so I'm going to say it again later but I first want to provide some information about what immigration is when we talk about immigration there are three different federal agencies you might probably already know about all of them the first one is ice this is the immigration police when you hear about immigration agents going to someone's home uh being the pain that's usually ice officers we also have a second type
004of immigration police called CBP they're the immigration police at the board but not just the southern boorder or the border with Canada they're in charge of a 100 miles all the way all around the United States so a lot of Massachusetts is within 100 miles of the ocean of our Coast so CBP has power there too and then we have US citizenship and Immigration Services USCIS they're not an immigration police they review applications you might send them an application for a work permit you might send them an application for TPS you might send them an application for green card for as silent for citizenship that is the agency that reviews all the applications all three agencies fall under a big agency called the Department of Homeland Security so a question that I often get is
005how does immigration find people it wants to support the number one way that people come into contact with immigration enforcement is either at the border or at the airport or if they have some contact with the criminal system because when someone is arrested even if you're never convicted just when you're arrested you're fingerprinted and those fingerprints are sent to immigration and that's how immigration becomes aware of someone there's other ways too they can specifically decide they want to pick someone up who they know has over state of needs out or something like that we may also see bigger enforcement actions like immigration going to a a workplace and asking all of the workers for papers but we have not seen that yet we have not seen that during the Trump Administration so far but it
006could happen I think most people know that you can be deported if you don't have any immigration status in the United States but even people with immigration status can be vulnerable to deportation usually if you have a criminal conviction um but there's lots of other complicated reasons under immigration law as well there's a lot of words here um but I wanted to tell you about a new policy that just came out on Friday the new policy says if you've been in the country for less than 2 years and you did not enter legally that immigration could try to quickly Deport you without going in front of an immigration judge normally if immigration wants to deport you they have to put you in Immigration Court you see a judge you can explain why you think you
007should not be deported and you have a process this new rule allows for a faster process but only for people that have been here less than 2 years and did not enter legally so if you have been here for more than two years it's a good idea to carry some documents with you that you could show an officer if you need to to show and that you've been here for at least 2 years if you have not been here for 2 years if you had any kind of immigration status or pending application it's good to carry evidence of that if you are an integration Court already it's good to carry evidence of that to kind of show them that you already have a process pending so I want to talk to you now about what
008your rights are if an immigration officer comes to your home which stops you when you're driving or stops you at in a public place or at work again I want to remind everyone that under our constitution in the United States everyone who is present in the United States has some basic right and everything that I'm going to talk about today are the rights of everyone here citizens noncitizens people with status people without status people that have been here a long time or people that have just arrived we all have the rights that I'm going to be talking about tonight I also want to acknowledge that sometimes people don't feel SA affirming those rights they say okay I know what my rights are but I'm afraid that if I stand up for my rights maybe they
009will become violent or things will become worse and it's true sometimes that does happen so I'm not here to tell you that you must behave in this way if you have contact with immigration enforcement but I am here tell you what your rights are because it's only after you know your rights that you can make an informed decision about when to exercise them when to assert your rights so if you only remember one thing from tonight I want you to remember this tool this is a know your rights card do we have any available yes we do okay these cards are available for you here tonight so some of you already took one I see it great if you didn't get it get one before you leave tonight these cards are really important because on
010one side in your language they remind you what your right are it's all good to be here and talk about what our rights are right but in the moment that someone knocks on your door or stops you on the street that can be very stressful and it can be hard to remember what the right thing to do or say it so this card reminds you of your rights and then on the other side in English it tells the officer and you can show the officer and it tells them I want to exercise my rights under the Constitution I want to remain silent I don't want to answer your questions to call the okay sometimes you don't have the right words to tell the officer that or maybe you don't have the right words in English
011or maybe it's just difficult to make yourself first so having the card is a really excellent tool you can carry one in your wallet even if you're a US citizen you can put one in your wallet I gave one to All My Children um you can keep one in your car and you you can keep on by the front door of your house so no matter where you are you can have easy access to this important information so let's talk about some of these scenarios I'm going to talk about what happens if immigration comes to your house if you're stuffed when driving or if you're stuff in public and even though we expect more immigration enforcement the Trump Administration I also want to say that the chances you will be stopped are really small right
012there's only so many immigration officers so what happens if immigration comes to your house and they knock what do you do usually when people knock on the door we open the door right we live in safe neighborhoods and many of us just open the door but it's important to remember that you should not open the door keep the door closed and instead ask is it immigration sometimes doesn't tell you it's immigration sometimes immigration will say that they're the police or they might lie and say something else right if they say they're the police you can ask them oh what Police Department what is your badge number but you still don't open the door the only time you have to open the door is if they have a piece of paper called a warrant that has
013been signed by a judge usually immigration does not have that they might have other pieces of paper but they usually don't have a warrant signed by a judge and I'll show you some examples in a little bit instead you can ask them do you have a warrant if they yes you still don't open the door you say show me right put it under the door hold it up to the peole or hold it up to the window of the house so that I can see it and then you give them the mil R card under the door right say here I'm asserting my rights to remain silent um and then you call someone you call your lawyer you call a community org ation that might be able to help you you call someone who's a
014US citizen who's not going to be address so how do you know if they have the piece of paper that means you have to open the door the only piece of paper that means you have to open the door is a warrant that has been signed by a judge so this is a piece of paper that a judge has signed giving them the power to enter your home or to arrest someone or to search your home and so it you know it's a formal document but you really just want to look for the word judge right where it's signed at the bottom hasn't been signed by a judge or by someone else and that's important because immigration often has a piece of paper and they call that piece of paper also a warrant um but
015not a warrant that has been signed by a judge so here on the left you see an example of a warrant signed by a judge and you know it's a warrant signed by a judge because it was given by the court it has the name of the court at the top and at the bottom under the signature it says judge the other piece of paper on the right is what immigration usually Happ and they also call it a warrant but it's not a document issued by the court at the top it says Department of Homeland Security so not a court and it's not signed by a judge it's signed by an immigration officer the document on the right the one that is by the Department of Homeland Security and signed by an immigration officer has
016no power it does not mean you have to open the door you can keep your door closed and say I don't want to speak with you I've seen many people are taking pictures of the slides I want you to know that these slides are available on our website and they're available in English Spanish Portuguese and patian Creo so you can go to our website and look at the slides in your own language um okay so that's what to immigration or the police come to your home keep the door closed ask them for a warrant only open the door if they have a warrant that has been signed by a judge the next scenario I want to talk about is what happens if you're sto went driving so before I talk about that I want to
017talk about driver's licenses in Massachusetts we now have driver's licenses available to everyone that lives in Massachusetts if you can prove your identity it doesn't matter what kind of immigration status you have or if you have no immigration status at all if you live in Massachusetts and you can prove who you are and you can pass the driver's license test you can get a driver's license but usually what you get first is something called a perm and when you have the permit you're not allowed to drive by yourself you've been driving for 20 years right in your own country with a permit you need to have another person in the car sitting next to you who's at least 21 years old and who has had a license for at least one year so you need
018another experienced driver what we have seen is that a lot of people get their permit and then they drive without an experienced driver and so if you're stoed because you were going over the speed limit or you didn't stop at a stop sign and you only have a permit and you don't have an experienced driver in your car that's considered driving without a license and that can get you in trouble and it can get you flagged for immigration too so if you recently got a massachusett permit please take that final step to make it a full license so that this doesn't happen to you so let's say you have your license and you are driving and you stopped maybe you're stopped by the police maybe you're stopped by immigration by CDP in Massachusetts when you're
019the driver you have to give them your name and your address of course if you have a license you can give them your license if they ask for the car Reg ation group of insurance and you have those things you can give that to them you do not have to answer any questions about where you're from about whether you have immigration status about how long you live here the only information you have to provide is your name and your address if there are passengers in the car let's say someone is sitting next to me the doesn't have to provide any information not even their name unless they're receiving a ticket right so if I'm stoed because I'm speaking I have to give my name and my address and if the person sitting next to me
020is not wearing a seat belt and the police wants to give them a ticket then they also have to provide their name so they can give them the ticket but if they're not getting a ticket they don't have to give information at all instead the passenger can simply say am I free to go and I free to go and when the officer says yes you can get out of the car and calmly walk away if you're on the highway you can't get out of your car right but on any other road if you stay my we to go and they say yes you can walk away um you also have to consent to a search of your car they can only search your car if you give them permission or if they have probable cause
021to believe you've been involved in a crime um and lastly and very importantly never give any law enforcement officer any fake documents in fact the best advice I can give you is to not car any fake documents or documents that belong to somebody else on your person at any time they will always figure out what they're fs and then the last scenario is what happens if you're stopped in public if you're just walking down the street or if you're in a public space um and the police or immigration stop I have been asked this question many times the question is what is the police or what is immigration allowed to ask you any guesses what can immigration or the police ask [Music] you people are shy okay the answer is they can ask you anything
022they can ask you your name they can ask you your favorite color they can you had for dinner last night that's not the important part the important part is what do you have an obligation to answer and the answer is you don't have to answer any questions at all so if I stop by a a law enforcement officer and they ask to see my papers I would simply say am I under arrest or am I free to go because if I'm not under arrest then I'm free to go and I will slowly walk away right now I will say that if you're an adult and most of you are if you're 18 or older and you have some type of immigration status the law says that you should carry proof of that status so if
023you have a work permit if you have a green card then you're supposed to carry of those but it doesn't necessarily mean you have to show it right away you can always ask if you feel safe you can always ask am I free to go am I being arrested or am I free to go and usually you're not being arrested because they don't have any evidence so they have to say that you're free to go if you're not free to go um or it when you're first interacting with them you should always know that you have the right to remain silent and to speak to a lawyer and so if you practice one sentence in English that sentence should be I have the right to remain silent I want to call a lawyer right if
024you're not able to say that you can at least say I want to be silent I want to be silent [Music] so what are some things that we can do now just to feel like you're prepared right one thing is to know your rights and we have talked about them and so now you know what many of your rights are another thing you can do now is to memorize phone numbers all of our phone numbers and all of our information is on our phone and many times people don't memorize important phone numbers like the phone number of their children of their partner of their lawyer but it's really important to spend some time just memorizing phone numbers because if you are detained by immigration they might only let you call one person and so you
025want to know who should I call in this moment and you want to know their phone number because you're not going to have access to your cell phone if you're being detained um and then think in advance about someone ideally a US citizen or someone that has really secure immigration status that can come um and maybe pay bond to allow you to come out of immigration detention if that is the situation that you're in so I want to share a little bit of information about immigration detention um most people even most people who are in the deportation process will never be detained right but sometimes people are detained and so I want you to know that if that happens you should not sign any documents because you might be signing for something called voluntary departure
026agreeing to leave the country you should continue to remain silent and not provide any information you don't want to rely on what the immigration officers are telling you your rights are because they might not be telling you the truth if someone you know has been detained by immigration there is a website where you can go and put in their name and their date of birth and their country of origin and it will tell you if they're being attained and where they're being attained but there's often a delay of a day several hours to a day after someone is detained before it will show up in the online system if someone is detained by immigration many people are able to request Bond bond is money that you pay to be able to get out of the
027tension and continue going to Immigration Court outside of detention at the end that you win your your case they give you the Bal money back or if you lose your case they give you the money back after you leave the United States okay the next topic I want to talk about is thinking about making plans for your family if a parent or a caregiver is detained by immigration or is deported but also if something else happens if they're really ill uh or become unavailable for other reasons you want to think about making plans for your family I want to begin by first saying that when a parent is detained or even after they're deported they continue to be the parents of that child even if they're separated so you still have all the rights of
028a parent and you still have all the rights to make decisions about your children's lives and to participate in any Court proceedings about your children if there are any so making decisions about what could happen to your children if you're not available is a really hard topic and to help you through that there's a a booklet that has been put together it's available in English Spanish Portuguese patient cre and I think Arabic and it provides you with lots of information much more than what I'm going to be talking about tonight before talking about some of the options for taking care of your children I want to share with you some basic tips of things that you can do now if you haven't done them already the first thing is if you have children and I
029think most of you do you're here um you should make sure that someone is authorized to pick them up from school if you're available to pick them up so check with the school to make sure that they have the right information on file about who is authorized to pick up your children you also want to check with the school what personal information about you and your children can be shared sometimes schools put together directories that include all the addresses of the families and if it's in a directory sometimes that information can be shared with other um entities including immigration so maybe someone from the school can can speak to that at the end but you just want to check if your children have been born here in the United States you might want to register
030their birth with your country of origin with the Consulate of your country of origin so that they know that you have children those children are probably citizens of both countries and you also want to make sure that children have passports a US passport if they were born here um and another passport if they're also dual citizen or if they were not born here and then lastly you want to think about is there someone that you would allow to travel with your children if the worst happens and you have to leave the United States and you want your children to be reunited with you giving them permission to travel with a trusted adult is important all of these things or some of these things you can do like getting a passport and doing a travel letter
031you can do after right but it's much more complicated so it's better to do it in advance just in case you will probably never need it but just in case so then the big topic the big topic of if found that available who is going to take care of my children and I have here four different options the first option is what we call informal informal means I call my sister and I tell her hey Stacy you know if something happens to me will you take care of my children and she says of course right that's just informal it's great but it doesn't mean that a judge or you know the child welfare system has to follow that so one step up from and probably most people's best option is something called the caregiver authorization
032activated and it was announced at the beginning that you have affidavits available tonight and you can get help filling these out if you want to so what the caregiver authorization affidavit does is it it allows you as a parent to choose another adult to be the one who can make decisions for your children about their educ a and about their healthare for a period of up to 2 years now you don't give them that power instead of you right you keep all of your rights with a parent but you're also giving someone else the ability to make those decisions if you're not available a caregiver authorization affidavit requires you to sign it and to have two witnesses two other adults sign it um and uh it has to be notorized so they can help you
033with that tonight there's another step up called a temporary agent authorization which is similar but it also gives a person the ability to make decisions around finances so money related things but it's only good for 60 days and then the very last option is Guardianship guardianship requires you to go into court and someone is appointed as the legal guardian of your children and exercises all the rights of a parent instead of the parent so you're giving your parental rights to someone else for a certain amount of time that option requires going to court um and is often not the best option for people so usually the caregiver authorization affidavit or the Asian authorization are the best options a couple final tips before I talk about where to get um legal services and good information so
034make sure that you have all of your important immigration documents somewhere together uh sometimes people are really good about organizing your documents and sometimes they're not and so if something happens and um you know you're let's say detained by immigration and someone calls a lawyer the lawyer will say okay what is their situation show me their document and if you don't know where to find those um in your house then that can be really stressful so organize any important documents not just immigration documents but also things like birth certificates passports important medical records and vaccination records it's always uh helpful to have them all organized some documents also have very important information on them like your a number which is your identity number in Immigration records and some documents might have information about uh the
035date of the next court hearing or an appointment that is coming up and it's really important to know about those I'm going to skip these slides okay I'm going to talk about where to get legal Heth and then I've lost TR of time but I hope I'm good on time 6:41 um and then hopefully we'll have some time for question so getting legal help is really important and it's really hard so some of you may have already connected with a lawyer or legal servic and have gotten but maybe some of you haven't been able to do so yet it's important to try and get a consultation with the lawyer now uh rather than waiting until something happens right it's better to be proactive whenever possible so first I want to give you information about who
036is authorized to give you legal advice so in the United States there two categories of people that can give you legal advice about immigration one is lawyers a lawyer or an attorney that had that went to law school and has a license to practice law and then the other is something called an accredited representative now an accredited representative is not just a person that decides to do immigration an accreditor representative is someone that is work with a nonprofit organization and the individual have gone through a special application process to show the government that they have the knowledge and the experience to give people legal advice when it comes to immigration even though they're not voyers how do you know if someone is an accreditor representative well a list online and you can simply look uh
037look at the list and see if their name is on it if their organization is on it this is really important because there are lots of people out there in the community some of them that are really trying to help people and then some of them that are just really trying to make some money off you um that are giving legal advice that are helping people with immigration applications but they're not authorized to do so even the people that are well meaning that want to try to help can cause a lot of hurt so I've seen many cases in my 18 years as an immigration lawyer where someone got in trouble because they got advice from someone who should not be giving them advice so I encourage you all before you allow someone to help
038you with your immigration to ask them are you a lawyer are you an accredited representative and if they say yes it's okay to say prove it to me right show me where your name is on the list show me your legal license right if they're offended by that that's a red slot right there's something wrong and if they can't prove to you that they're a lawyer or an accredited representative they should not be giving you legal so if you have gotten services from someone that should not have been helping people in Immigration cases there are ways to report it if you feel that you've beeni to of fraud if you feel that you have been misled by someone making you believe that they were authorized to give you legal advice when they were not and
039so on this side there's information about different offices that you can call um to make a complt and to make a report so where do you get real and free or low cost Legal Services I as I said in the beginning there's not enough free rers right but the free and lowcost lawyers that we have are working really really really hard to try and help as many people as possible the best listing of free and lost immigration Legal Services is on this website called the Massachusetts legal resource funder mlf.org you go to the website you say that you live in Massachusetts you answerer a few questions the information is not kept it's not shared with anyone you answer a few questions multiple choice you give them your zip code and then it will give you
040a list of organizations that provide immigration legal services and then you have to call you have to call each organization and request an appointment sometimes be on a weight list um to be able to talk to someone and see if you can meet with someone knowledgeable who can tell you what your options are if you have options I've included a couple of other resources here one is a listing for people that are in immigration and then um the the last one is for Legal Services outside Massachusetts we are all here in Massachusetts but many of you may have family members or friends that live in other state and so the last one here is the national directory and then finally and then I'll stop and Pi some questions if you scan this QR code will
041to our website where we have all of our know your right information all of the information that I shared tonight there's also one page handouts that remind you what your rights are copies of the your rights cards the family preparedness packets um about making plans for your children um more information about what your rights are when you're at work um and lots of other resources so I encourage you all to and check out all the resources that we have here so I believe that was yeah that's last five so I have more information that I could share but I would like to pause here and see if there are questions they'll be [Music] we [Music] so the question is um what if I you know am forced to leave the country and I want my
042children to be able to come to my country of origin but they don't have passports yet can the caregiver you know where you fill out the caregiver authorization after they can they get the passport and the answer is usually know the rules around at least for US passports I can't I don't know the rules for other countries but for US passports it has to be the parent or in the absence of the parent it would have to be a guardian appointed by the court so that's why it's a good idea to get that started um and get the passports um in advance it's always a good idea to have passports you never know when you might need to travel [Music] foreign speech [Music] so the question is if I had an immigration case but the
043immigration case has been closed okay it do you mean an Immigration Court case [Music] spe [Music] so [Music] I yeah yeah so the question is well what if I had a case but the case has been closed but I still have problems with immigration it's difficult to answer that question because it depends on the type of case and why it was closed and how long ago and if you have any other status so I just wanted to say that you know I'm not going to be able to answer questions that are specific to your situation I can only answer general questions um so I I can talk to you briefly afterwards if you [Music] want [Music] for so for those of you that don't speak Portuguese or we're not sitting right next to to her
044with the translation the question is well what happens if I'm the ported and my child is in school um if I fill out the caregiver authorization form can this does the person that I give these rights to do they need to have a green card um and could they make arrangements for my daughter to be supported with me or to be sent back to my country as well um so first of all I want to say the ideal situation is when you complete the caregiver authorization form that the person you choose is someone that has secure immigration status um because otherwise then what happens if that person is subject to immigration enforcement then you don't have a backup um so when you fill out the caregiver authorization form is better to choose someone that is
045a citizen or has a green card or has some other kind of good immigration status now the second question about whether well if I'm deported can my child be deported with me if your child is a US citizen they cannot be deported so it depends on how you are deported if you are forced to leave and you're given the date by which you have to leave then you can leave of you know however you want and you can book a plane ticket and you can book a plane ticket for your child too if you're in detention and they deport you and they put you in a plane you're not going to be able to bring your child with you and that's why writing a travel letter to give someone the ability to accompany your child
046back to your country um is a good idea again the person should be someone who can travel and then be able to return to the United States so a citizen are someone with [Music] okay so the question is about whether you only have to worry about deportation if you have criminal history the answer unfortunately is that the law allows for people to be deported when they don't have immigration status even when they don't have criminal history so if you don't have immigration status but you are a law abiding person you pay your taxes you work hard you don't have any criminal history it is still possible under the law to support you that said usually immigration goes after people that have criminal history because it's easier to find them that way because they're usually somewhere
047in the criminal process but not only and it is possible that if they come somewhere to detain someone that has a criminal record and you're also right there it is possible that you could also be detained or put in deportation proceedings um sometimes it is easier for people to win a case in Immigration Court if they been here for a long time and they don't have criminal history but not always immigration law is very complicated so the bottom line is that yes generally individuals that have criminal history are more at risk um but other people unfortunately are also vulnerable [Music] fore speee foree than you okay so the question is what if I don't have anyone that can take care of my children in my absence um and I am detained how can I make
048arrangements for those children to stay with me right so if your children are US citizens if they were born here they cannot be deported um I would say if you are an only parent or a single parent or an only caregiver of your children if you're being detained by immigration it's usually a good idea to tell them like hey I have two children and they're going to come home to No One sometimes that will mean that immigration decides not to detain you they might still put you in deportation process but not detain you other times they might still detain you but at least they will no social services so your children are not left alone um you have the right to make arrangements for your children even if you're in Immigration detention um but logistically
049it can it can be difficult to make those arrangements sometimes if the parent is attained and the children don't have anyone else to care for them they do end up in foster care but sometimes the the fact that they don't have anyone else to take care of them means that immigration will decide not to detain the [Music] parent [Music] for so the question is about how long does it take to get a green card after you apply um and the answer unfortunately it it depends because there's lots of different ways to get a green card you could get a green card after you were given Asylum you could get a green card for a family member you can get a green card through special visas for victims of domestic violence and so every process has
050a different amount of time to wait sometimes it's 69 months some times it's 8 years so it really depends that without knowing more about your process I can't I [Music] can't oh sorry the other question was am I at risk of being deported if I have an application pending um usually the answer is that you have process that is ongoing you have the right to remain in the United States until a decision is made on your process there are some exceptions but certainly if you have a pending application that gives you a better claim to be able to stay until a decision is [Music] made okay last question [Music] foree spee foreign speech speech um okay so two questions very different questions one question is if I have a child who's already an adult 18
051or older and then I have younger children can I give my older child the ability to travel with the younger children and the answer generally is yes if they're an adult then you can give them that um that ability um that child that is an adult cannot get passports for their brothers and sisters you as a parents have to get the passports but generally I would imagine they would be able to travel together and then the second question is if I'm just here and I have you know I don't have status or I overstate my Visa and I'm detain am I eligible for Bond um the rules around bond are complicated which is a theme of IM migration M um but usually if you're in because you have overstate a Visa or you're just out
052of status most people and and you don't have criminal history most people are eligible for Bond Bond can be anywhere from $1,500 to 6 78 $10,000 or more and again Bond doesn't buy you status it just buys you the ability to continue your process outside of thetion so a 19-year-old um you know adult child can can you can do a caregiver authorization affidavit for the 19-year-old but if the 19-year-old is not a US citizen or doesn't have a migration status that's not the best option or you might also want to do for someone that has lawful status okay all right I think that was the last question so I don't know should I hand it out to someone speee in one way it's the same thing because both groups oh so sorry the question was
053about the question was about is there a difference between people that may have come into the country illegally or people that came on a tourist or student visa and then State um so in one way they're similar because both people subject to deportation for not having immigration status now in another way they're a little bit different um people that came in on a Visa immigration knows that you're here they might not know where you are but they probably know that you're here if you came in illegally and you've had no interaction with immigration you were not caught you never filed an application they might not know that you're here so they could still find you but then you know they're not actively looking for you um however people that came in through the Border without
054a Visa could be and have been here less than 2 years could be subject to that quick deportation process that I talked about at the beginning whereas people that entered legally with a Visa are always going to have the right to go to Immigration Court and see a judge okay so that was the last I know there's many more questions but told that's the last question thank you so much for your hospitality and coming over um for all our families I just want to remind everybody we do have a family resource page on a f the public schools website where a lot of this information is posted as we receive new information from any Community Partners or date we are posting it on there so it's up to date if you have a hard time
055finding it please reach out to the community facilitator at your school all of our schools have one um and we are continuously meeting with them training them um and uh sending them all this information so that they have it so please don't hesitate to do that we can also be reached at the parent Center at iner um and this uh whole presentation will be put up on our website and sent through our parent Square um information app so if you don't have that make sure that you download that because we send a lot of information that way um we are posted on YouTube so you can also put post captioning up to translate into your language and one more thing Jessica one more thing there's a lot of bad information that is flying around in
056social media a lot of rumors a lot of information that is wrong so an important thing that you can do is know where to go for good accurate information one place for that is mir's Instagram account when there's changes in immigration law and policy we put up a policy update in English Spanish Portuguese and Haitian crle so please follow you have a place where you know the information you're getting is true and real once again thank you all for coming and those watching at home um thank you very much have a good night [Applause]