Safety Planning: SOS provides in-depth and holistic safety planning to immigrant and mixed-status communities confronting the current immigration enforcement crisis. Our safety planning expands from the individual, to the family, and finally, to the community.

• Individual Assistance: We assist individuals in building safety plans, prioritizing their preferences and informed decisions for their children, partners, finances, and healthcare in the event of an ICE enforcement emergency, along with training on how to protect individual rights during interactions with law enforcement. 

• Family Safety Planning: All families with immigrant members should participate in safety planning, training, and prepare for some of the risks inherent in the ongoing enforcement crisis. Family plans include group planning for child and elder care, caring for family property, addressing current immigration risks, and providing training on constitutional rights and immigration enforcement.

• Community Planning: SOS also provides larger trainings and consultancies to groups and organizations to help build community safety plans. The current immigration crisis and threats to immigrant and mixed-status communities under the increasingly authoritarian administration calls on us to think about our communities and commitments to one another in a different light. Through building stronger community bonds, we build greater resistance, power, and protection. Group safety plans can include building systems to alert neighbors and community members of ICE actions, identifying legal and societal support for families dealing with ICE enforcement crises, securing funds to pay for bonds and legal assistance for individuals in detention, identifying spaces available to assist individuals within the community, hosting safety planning clinics, and widely disseminating Know Your Rights materials.

Immigration Direct Services: SOS lawyers and legal advocates, located throughout the southeast, are experienced in navigating the complex immigration system, providing deportation defense, asylum assistance, and family-based immigration services. SOS also represents and advocates for individuals harmed in federal custody. No human being is illegal, and no one should be left alone to navigate the difficult and dangerous waters of the United States’ immigration system. Read more about some of our direct immigration cases here.
Civil Rights Litigation: There are certain fundamental rights that we all merit, even those without immigration status - such as due process and free speech. Under the current administration, SOS is bearing witness to one of the gravest onslaughts of civil rights abuses in modern history. We represent families of loved ones who died wrongfully in ICE custody, students expelled from universities for their peaceful political protest, and individuals physically abused by law enforcement. We are so proud to stand with our clients as they hold the government accountable. Read more about some of our civil rights litigation here.