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Know your rights on immigration :
Challenge the thought that being undocumented is a crime.
Lawyers can't always help.
There are other ways to help stop deportation, such as media pressure or protest.
You have the right to remain silent answering any questions even do you want water will wave your right to remain silent. You have to consistently answer I am enforcing remain silent and I want to speak to my attorney.
If you are trans they have the right to ask you for your passport or birth cirtifcate name.
Immagration can lie legally.
You have the right to demand a warrent and you don't have to open the door to see this warrent.
Trans folks are at a higher risk to have employers ask them about your legal name or your birth certificate name.
Don't sign anything with an attorney. ARDC to search whether or not the person you're consulting is licensed in all the way. Mexican consulate emergency  hotline 8887555511 they will help low income folks who can prove that they are low income with being detained. Do not call the mexicanan consulate if you are applying for political asylum. But they can help with provided you with a lawyer. Ocad is a community organization that is having presentations every saturday with a emergency hotline 8554357693.
You can ask for a bond, but you have to post the entire bond to get out. 
Have a safety plan and carry your documents with you. 
Request your phone to get your phone numbers.
First defense legal aid will help you find people who have been arrested hotline 1800lawrep4.
The city of Chicago is a Sanctuary City but it does not mean you will not be deported in Chicago. City employee can't threaten deportation. The police aren't suppose to collaborate with immigration but they still do. Folks in detention are put in jail. Dogde county is one of the closes detention center. If you don't sign papers you will get hearing but it could take weeks to months.  The criminal system is the main way immigration gets your information. If you are put into the Detention Center you are put into one with the gender that you were assigned at birth.
You can write letters of support to people going through deportation hearings to show that they are less of a flight risk. If you are undocumented, a dual citizens, on a visa, have a green card do not go to the airport protest but the airport is basically the bored and immigration is there looking to deport people. However, encourage people with privilege to go for you and protest. Be a proactive bystander.  Don't let them come for others just because you don't belong to the group, because when they come for you there will be no one left.