Ally Resources
Ways to take action through Action Alerts and Social Media Toolkits
Action Alerts
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Top 4 ways to take action to welcome refugees and forcibly displaced people.
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RCUSA Community Guidance Toolkit
President Trump Extinguishes U.S. Resettlement Program and Shuts the Door on Refugees and the Community Nonprofits that Welcome Them.
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Join Refugee Advocacy Week of Action from March 17 – 21, 2025. Members of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives are on “recess” and at home visiting their states and districts from Monday, March 17 – Friday, March 21, 2025. During this time, many Members of Congress hold public events or town halls and conduct in-person legislative meetings with constituents.
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RCUSA February 2025 Action Toolkit
ONE PAGE toolkit summary of the top actions you can take to support refugees and defend refuge, including: (1) engaging your Members of Congress, (2) activating your state & local elected leaders, (3) hosting/joining local days of action/pressers/etc., and (4) documenting/lifting up community support.
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RCUSA has created this (5-page) resource for how to turn RCUSA's State & Local Policy Agenda into action. It includes how to build a team, preparing for/organizing meetings with state and local elected officials, resources to equip you with tools to talk to officials, how to organize a community event, and fresh media/press resources.
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RCUSA State & Local Policy Agenda
This policy agenda focuses on some of the top ways to prevent the complete annihilation of the infrastructure for refugee-serving providers in their states and local communities.
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National, State, and Local Action Alert
Use this action alert to connect with your elected officials and share the importance of welcoming refugees
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Through your calls to action, we make a difference for those who need it most and ensure we live up to our promise as a nation.
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National Immigration Project Regional Raids Response Hubs - Resources
We are seeking to gather written resources and templates into a library to ensure easy access by advocates - both remote and on-the-ground - in the aftermath of a community or workplace raid.
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National Immigration Project Regional Raids Response Participation Survey
The purpose of this survey is to identify organizations, firms, and individuals that are either already planning raids response efforts and/or interested in further coordination within their region.
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Global Refuge: Advocacy Alerts
Raise your voice alongside those seeking safety. Join our advocacy efforts to support just, humane policy.
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International Refugee Assistance Project | Tell Your Elected Officials: We Value Welcoming
Tell Your Elected Officials: We Value Welcoming.
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Action Alert covering humanitarian assistance and the USRAP.
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National Immigration Law Center Action Alert
Action Alert- Tell Congress: Vote NO on the No Bailout for Sanctuary Cities Act.
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Action Alert: Immigrants make our communities stronger: Tell Congress to reject the “No Bailout for Sanctuary Cities Act”.
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Action Alert: Call Your Reps: No Attacks on Sanctuary Cities.
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January 2025 Refugee Advocacy Toolkit
Resources to support community members’ engagement with local, state, and national elected leaders to welcome refugees and newcomers.
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Acacia has created a Congressional action form for people to send messages to their members of Congress and demand the restoration of legal services for unaccompanied children. Please circulate widely.
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CWS Action Alert: Protect Immigrant Children
Protect Immigrant Children: Tell Congress & the White House to Stop Deporting Unaccompanied Migrant Children.
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Volunteer Opportunity: No One Left Behind Reception & Placement (R&P) Support
This form is for the cataloguing of any individuals or organizations able to provide R&P services to SIV holders arriving.
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This document provides summaries of two Executive Orders related to national security, immigration enforcement, and counterterrorism policies. The Trump Administration's national security executive orders introduce the largest expansion of immigration enforcement and counterterrorism policies since post 9/11.
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The administration is undermining the integrity of the U.S. immigration courts. Congress Must Hold the Executive Branch Accountable for Systemic Attack on Immigration Courts.
Social Media Toolkits
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United In Welcome: Social Media Toolkit
Tell Your Elected Officials: We Are #UnitedInWelcome.
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RCUSA: Federal Action Alert Social Media Toolkit
Here are ways to extend the advocacy action alert to federal lawmakers.
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Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project: Birthright Citizenship Toolkit
Provides organizations with tools on how to message around and respond to the Birthright Citizenship Executive Order.
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Social Media Toolkit – Save CARE: Stop the shut down
This toolkit is designed to mobilize advocates and volunteers to fight back. The goal is to force key decision-makers to reverse the decision or exempt Afghan allies from the shutdown.
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Acacia Protect Kids Social Media Toolkit
Social Media Toolkit: Acacia provides 26,000 children with direct representation, and over 100,000 kids receive legal orientations, self-help guides and information about their legal options every year. This strands children, some as young as toddlers, without the help they need to succeed in their immigration cases.
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Partner & Constituent Social Media Toolkit: #DefendRefuge Campaign
Urge state and local elected officials to sign the letter to Secretaries Rubio and Noem affirming their communities are ready to welcome refugees. Visit bit.ly/DefendRefuge to learn more or bit.ly/DefendRefugeAction to take action.
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“At What Cost” Social Media Toolkit- America's Voice
Our campaign seeks to illustrate the indiscriminate and obsessive nature of Trump’s efforts and his allies in Congress to defund essential domestic programs to fund family separation and abduct our friends and neighbors.
The RCUSA Policy Center is a collaborative effort.
We welcome additional resources to highlight at info@rcusa.org.