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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.

Skittles: Trump Administration

Yes,  there is a ton of far beyond messed up unconstitutional things happening everyday that keep me up at night.  I am not writing about it.  Not out of fear of going to jail. I will willingly join my fellow co-conspirators. I am out here actively resisting my living my life and participating when I can.  Making it a priority to participate in Queer, low income, POC, trans resistance efforts.  But in my free time I need to decompress. So I am writing less and self caring more.  I will write just not as often as you think I should about the atrocities of Trump.

Skit: the women's march

First off I did not March. I was not in my city. I did not feel solidarity to march or safe to march. With that said I can't complain about something I didn't help organize or participate in.  But I can offer up my opinion. I believe as a whole the march was good.  It didn't just represent women it represented all marginalized groups that are now living in fear under this new administration. It was widely inclusive and my march offered a way for me to participate even though I wasn't there. Which I did do. My concern is that the people in the march did not understand fully what they were marching about.  Some women (white cis) marched because they are afraid their rights will be taken away under this administration. Rights that POCs and trans people  were already being denied or infringed upon. Where was the solidarity back then? Why did they have to come for you for you to suddenly care about all of us? It was highly ableist. A march only includes people who don't have mobility issues to march. A lot of people posted statuses congratulating people who came with canes and oxygen tanks. Like they were overcoming something to be there.  Which they might have been but it inherently puts down those you weren't able to attend because they could not over come their mobility issues. There needs to be solidarity with those who lack the privilege to be in these types of spaces. People marching may not support women's issues such as abortion, education, lgbt, racial, and trans issues ect, because yes these are all women's issues.  Because a woman can be a person of color, trans, in need or have had an abortion, lacking access to education, ect.  These are women's issues simply because people who identify as women experience these issues. So the march meant so much more than the fact that the president is a rapist and wants to limit the control women have over their own bodies and I think that fell on deaf ears.