Know Your Rights Resources
The Legal Clinic represents Hawaiʻi residents from low-income households with immigration legal matters. If you are in removal proceedings, have received a notice to appear in immigration court, or are at the Honolulu Federal Detention Center contact us at 808-777-7071.
Also see the HAILA Immigration Detention Hotline # on this page.
What to do if you encounter Immigration authorities
Know-Your-Rights Red Cards
Click to download (English)
Click to download (Spanish)
Click to print Know-Your-Rights Red Cards in these Languages common to Hawaiʻi: English, Chamorro, Chinese, Chuukese, Hmong, Ilokano, Khmer (Cambodian), Korean, Laotian, Japanese, Marshallese, Samoan, Spanish, Tagalog, Tongan, Thai, Yapese
Click to print Red Cards in these Languages: Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Haitian Creole, Hmong, Khmer, Korean, Pashto, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Tigriniya, Ukranian, and Vietnamese
Click to print Red Cards in these languages: Chamorro, Japanese, Marshallese, Samoan, Simplified Chinese, and Tongan. Click for: Illocano, Chuukese
Click to view “How to use Red Cards” (English)
Click here for illustration on “How to use Red Cards” (Multilingual)
Know Your Rights Applicable to the COFA Community
Click to download (English)
Click to print Know-Your-Rights Red Cards in these Languages common to Hawaiʻi: English, Chamorro, Chinese, Chuukese, Hmong, Ilokano, Khmer (Cambodian), Korean, Laotian, Japanese, Marshallese, Samoan, Spanish, Tagalog, Tongan, Thai, Yapese
Hawaiʻi Immigration Detention Hotline #: 808-204-5951
(Call or Text 7am-7pm HST)
The Hawaiʻi chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and the Refugee & Immigration Law Clinic of UH Richardson School of Law have set up a hotline for those in Hawaiʻi who have received notice of deportation or have been detained by ICE/Homeland Securities. Legally trained hotline coordinators will ask screening questions and may refer you to a pro bono attorney. Pro bono attorneys may also be able to visit immigrant detainees in Honoluluʻs Federal Detention Center. In most cases, if an attorney is willing to assist, you would not need to pay attorney fees. However, not all clients can be represented, and case outcomes are up to the federal government.
What Immigrant Families Should Do Now
Know Your Rights tutorial video in seven languages to help prepare you for encounters with Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Step-by-step Family Preparedness Plan
Every family should have a Family Preparedness Plan in case of an emergency. It is critical for immigrant families to think ahead and set more concrete plans for immigration emergencies that can arise. For example, this Resource Toolkit goes into detail about different childcare options available in case of an absent parent, where to find trusted immigration services in your community, and how to prepare to assert your constitutional rights in the presence of an immigration officer.
Click to download toolkit (English)
Click to download toolkit (Spanish)
Impact of Trump Immigration Policies and Know Your Rights
Click to read (English)
Click to read (Spanish)
Digital First Aid Resources
Download file - Includes internal links on the following:
How to change your phone and desktop settings
Strengthen your digital security
Turn off location tracking
Secure Fitness data
Encrypted emails
More multilingual guides and resources for Encounters with ICE at Home, in Public, or in Detention from various sources and organizations:
ACLU Hawai’i
Interacting with ICE: click here to watch the free video training
Interacting with ICE (at home; warrants and constitutional rights)
Interacting with ICE (if arrested, at work or on the streets; documents to carry)
Interacting with ICE (at “sensitive places” – churches, schools, hospitals)