Whether you’re a U.S. citizen, a green card holder, a student on a visa, or undocumented, you have legal rights.
Below you will find resources for advocates, service providers and allies who want to help ensure that immigrants know their rights in different contexts.
MIRA provides “know your rights” trainings for groups, but we also encourage you to use and share the pre-recorded multilingual presentations available below. Right now, we are prioritizing community-facing events. You can fill out this form to request one.
Table of Contents:
Upcoming Trainings
Know Your Rights Recorded Presentations
Slides for a Community Presentation
Know Your Rights Handouts
Know Your Rights cards (ILRC)
Know Your Rights Digital Toolkit
Family Preparedness
Know Your Rights Posters
Know Your Rights App
Information About Immigration Scams/Notario Fraud
More Resources by Topic
For Educators and Service Providers
For Employers
For Noncitizen Protesters
Interacting With Immigration Customs Enforcement (I.C.E)
Additional general KYR resources
Policy Updates
- Recorded Know Your Rights Presentations
- English (MIRA 12.2024)
- English (MIRA 2.2025)
- Kreyòl ayisyen (MIRA 12.2024) & Kreyòl ayisyen (produced by IFSI 12.2024)
- Español (MIRA 12.2024)
- Português (MIRA 12.2024)
- Nepali (courtesy of SomerViva)
- Cantonese (courtesy of SomerViva)
- Mandarin (courtesy of SomerViva)
- Slides for a community presentation
Thank you to the City of Cambridge for assisting with translation!
- Know Your Rights handouts
Thank you to the City of Boston for assisting with translation!
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Know Your Rights cards (ILRC)
- English
- Español
- Português
- Kriolu-Cabo Verde
- Kreyòl ayisyen
- Additional languages can be found here
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Digital Toolkit (English, Spanish, Portuguese & Haitian Creole social media graphics, videos, and copy)
- English
- Español
- Português
- Kreyòl ayisyen
- Additional information and resources (multilingual): https://www.masslegalhelp.org/immigration/know-your-rights/planning-family-emergency
Know Your Rights Posters to display at your organization
- English 11×17″; English 18×24″
- Español 11×17″; Español 18×24″
- Português 11×17″; Português 18×24″
- Kreyòl ayisyen 11×17″; Kreyòl ayisyen 18×24″
Download for Android
Download for Apple
- Handout
- Videos
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Here are additional Know Your Rights materials by topic, including many resources created by other organizations. We will be adding more of these resources as they are made available!
- Guidance for educators
- Guidance for service providers
- Guidance for food pantries
- Massachusetts AGO guidance for service providers
- Additional guidance for service providers is available in this curated collection, as well as from Public Counsel and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (Note: these are not Massachusetts specific)
- Advocates’ Preparation Checklist / Lista de Preparativos para Defensores
- Guidance for homeless shelter providers (Note: this is a national resource, not Massachusetts specific)
- Guidance for healthcare providers
- Information on privacy protections in federal benefits programs
- Guidance for employers
- Employer pamphlet
- To request a Know Your Rights in the Workplace for Employers and Employees training contact achavezandonie@miracoalition.org
- Know Your Rights: Immigrants’ Participation in Protests
- 10 Things Non-citizen Protestors Need to Know
If you see ICE in public:
Download the “If you see I.C.E. in public” printable poster here to display at your organization