CHIRLA

CHIRLA

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CHIRLA was formed in 1986 to advance the human and civil rights of immigrants and refugees. Educate, organize, and advocate.

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Reminder: We keep us safe! 🛑 If you see ICE in LA, don’t stay silent. Report it to the LA Rapid Response Network. 📲 #ImmigrantsBelong #NoDeportations #SomosCHIRLA

🗳️ Need help voting? We've got you! 💙 Join us this Friday at CHIRLA's Flex Vote Center! Whether you need to drop off your ballot or get answers to your voting questions, we're here to help. Stop by, connect with the community, and enjoy free screen-printing, food, music, and great vibes. ✨🎨🌮🎶

ICE raids continue in our communities. If you see immigration enforcement in your neighborhood, report it by calling the LA Rapid Response Network! #SomosCHIRLA #StopTheRaids

Thank you, Monarca Sol Collective, for hosting such a beautiful Día de los Muertos festival and altar exhibit in Pasadena. ❤️🕯️💐 A meaningful community celebration honoring our loved ones who are no longer with us, but who live on in our hearts, our memories, and the traditions we carry forward.💀🌼✨

Los Angeles meets uncertainty with unity. 🦋 Stay informed, know your rights, and support one another. If you witness ICE activity, report it to the LA Rapid Response Network: 📞 888-624-4752. 📲 For more resources, visit CHIRLA.org/myrights #KnowYourRights #ImmigrantJustice #SomosCHIRLA

🚨 If you see ICE activity, document what you observe only if it is safe to do so and report it to the LA Rapid Response Network:
📞 888-624-4752 We will not let fear isolate us. We will stay informed, organized, and united. ✊🏽 Know Your Rights Resources: https://ow.ly/O8u750ZYFwz

This year, make your voice heard early. California voters have options: 📬 Vote by mail and return your ballot before Election Day 📍 Vote in person at a Vote Center 📮 Drop off your ballot at an official Ballot Drop Box 🏛️ Visit your County Elections Office for voting support and resources

ICE raids continue in our communities. If you see immigration enforcement in your neighborhood, report it by calling the LA Rapid Response Network! #SomosCHIRLA #StopTheRaids

🗳️ It's election season! Get informed about the measures on the 2026 CA ballot & check out our recommendations! 🌟 Vote for what you value. Share this with your family, friends, and neighbors, and make a plan to vote! ✊🏽 To read more about our voter guide, visit: www.chirla.org/2026voterguide

Every election, decisions get made about our schools, health care, neighborhoods, & future. This year, vote for what you value & vote early! ✊🏽 Early voting makes it easier to fit your voice into your life. Save the dates! ⤵️ 🔗Questions about your registration? Visit: covr.sos.ca.gov #Elections2026

Today and every day, we honor Indigenous peoples and stand with their ongoing fights for sovereignty, land, and justice. ✊🏽 Immigrant justice and Indigenous rights are connected. We believe everyone deserves dignity, safety, and the freedom to call a place home. #IndigenousPeoplesDay

CHIRLA offices will be closed on Monday, October 12, 2026, in observance of #IndigenousPeoplesDay. Our services, including the DACA renewal registration link, will be unavailable. We'll continue serving the community on Tuesday, October 13, 2026. 🫂 #SomosCHIRLA #ImmigrantRights

CHIRLA is seeking a full-time Managing Attorney, Programs & Subcontract Administration (PSA) to lead legal training, provide technical assistance, oversee program implementation, & collaborate with legal service providers statewide. 🔗Apply: https://ow.ly/VsyA50ZLI9o

ICE raids continue in our communities. If you see immigration enforcement in your neighborhood, report it by calling the LA Rapid Response Network! #SomosCHIRLA #StopTheRaids

We know our community is concerned about reports of increased ICE presence in LA. Federal agents seen in DTLA on Oct. 8, were part of an operation by LAPD to make arrests tied to alleged high-level narcotics sales. According to the LAPD, it was not immigration enforcement. Here's what we know.

We still need to stay alert, know our rights, and know where to turn! ✊🏽 If you or someone you love sees immigration enforcement or needs resources, call CHIRLA's Rapid Response Hotline: 888-624-4752. #KnowYourRights #ConoceTusDerechos #ImmigrantRights #SomosCHIRLA

You’re not alone. 📍 Know your rights 📲 Save the hotline: 888-624-4752 👥 Share with family and neighbors #SomosCHIRLA #ImmigrantRights #KnowYourRights

This morning, CHIRLA stood alongside our faith community on the final day of the 8-day, 96.5-mile pilgrimage from Adelanto Detention Center to the Detention Center in LA. ✊🏽 We came together with our neighbors to call attention to the cruel conditions inside detention centers in CA & the country. 🕊️

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Upon arriving at the LA metropolitan detention center this afternoon, we harness our power and love for our immigrant neighbors and families to voice our message loud and clear: the suffering our community is enduring in immigration detention must end now! ✊🏽🦋🕯️

“People have died in these immigration prisons. The 65,000+ community members are loved & are not just numbers. These individuals have familie — they have fathers, mothers, daughters, sons. We will fight in the courts & the streets to stop this cruelty,” - Angelica Salas, CHIRLA Executive Director

This morning, CHIRLA stood alongside our faith community on the final day of the 8-day, 96.5-mile pilgrimage from Adelanto Detention Center to the Detention Center in LA. ✊🏽 We came together with our neighbors to call attention to the cruel conditions inside detention centers in CA & the country. 🕊️

🕯️We’re marching to stand in solidarity with those taken from their families. 🕯️We’re marching to remember those lives lost in detention. 🕯️Immigrants deserve justice and dignity!

ICE raids continue in our communities. If you see immigration enforcement in your neighborhood, report it by calling the LA Rapid Response Network! #SomosCHIRLA #StopTheRaids

The California Dream Network is empowering immigrant students to become leaders, organizers, and advocates for change. 🦋 “Central Valley is home. Our community is our strength, and everyone deserves a voice and a place to thrive.” -Gloria, California Dream Network Central Valley Organizer 💙

🎶🎟️ Win two tickets! Giveaway Rules: 1️⃣ Make a donation to support CHIRLA https://ow.ly/zVzn50ZTi8E 2️⃣ Tag a friend 3️⃣ Comment which day you’d like to attend (October 16, 17, or 18). 🏆 One winner will receive a pair of tickets and can choose their preferred festival date!

The Supreme Court has temporarily allowed the Trump administration to continue deporting people to countries they have never called home. The Court will hear arguments in December, giving advocates another opportunity to fight this harmful policy. #chirla #dueprocess #immigrantrights

As the advocacy anchor of the Eaton Fire Collaborative LTRG and policy leads with the Dena Rise Up Coalition, CHIRLA is proud to help ensure longtime residents can rebuild, remain, and return home. #CHIRLA #denariseup

From September 29 to October 6, faith leaders, immigrant advocates, and community members will walk from the Adelanto ICE Detention Center to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles. Together, we are calling for dignity, freedom, and an end to detention.

ICE raids continue in our communities. If you see immigration enforcement in your neighborhood, report it by calling the LA Rapid Response Network! #SomosCHIRLA #StopTheRaids

Thank you to the incredible vendors, creatives, and community partners who helped make CHIRLA's 40th Anniversary Immigrant Champion Awards an unforgettable evening. ✨ #CHIRLA40 #ImmigrantChampionAwards #ImmigrantJustice #CommunityPower #ImmigrantRights

🦋 No one should be targeted because of the color of their skin, the language they speak, or the work they do. ⚖️ This week, plaintiffs in Vasquez Perdomo v. Mullin returned to federal court seeking to stop racial profiling and suspicionless immigration stops by federal agents.

🚨 Raise your voice for refugee neighbors facing instability in their home countries. Urge your Member of Congress to stand with refugee communities & call on the Trump administration to reopen refugee admissions, resume processing, & protect those most at risk! 🔗 rcusa.org/tell-congres...

Refugee Council USA@rcusa.bsky.social

Refugee Council USA calls on the administration to return the United States to its historic leadership role in refugee protection and re-open refugee admissions on a non-discriminatory basis. Join us by contacting your elected officials today! #WeWillWelcome

Today in DTLA: Standing together ahead of a major hearing in Vasquez Perdomo v. Mullin—one of our lawsuits challenging racial profiling and suspicionless immigration stops. 🦋✊🏽 🎥 Tune in live at 9 AM our Facebook @chirlausa or Instagram @chirla_org

🚨 Families in Boyle Heights & East LA lived for months with the stench of rotting food while a multi-billion-dollar company delayed action. #SB716 updates outdated fines and has passed the Legislature. Now it needs Governor Newsom's signature. 📲 Call (916) 445-2841 and urge him to sign SB 716!

CHIRLA joined election officials, community organizations, and labor leaders, from across California to reaffirm our shared commitment to protecting every eligible voter's right to cast a ballot safely and accessibly. ✨ Make your plan. 🗳️ Make your voice heard. 💙 Vote for what you value.

Today, community leaders, labor advocates, elected officials, & #California election officials are coming together for an #ElectionProtection event to reaffirm a shared commitment to protecting every eligible Californian’s right to vote! #ElectionProtection #VotingRights #SomosCHIRLA #Election2026

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“We stand together because democracy is not something we inherit, but something we protect. We’ve helped individuals become citizens, not just to hold a naturalization certificate, but to raise their voice for their future & strengthen our democracy,” —Angelica Salas, CHIRLA Executive Director 

“The right to vote must be protected! There is something deeply wrong when people in power worry about restricting the right to vote instead of winning our vote. Voting is not a form of power we’re willing to negotiate. Our democracy belongs to all of us!” —Dr. Charity Chandler Cole, LA Voice

Today, community leaders, labor advocates, elected officials, & #California election officials are coming together for an #ElectionProtection event to reaffirm a shared commitment to protecting every eligible Californian’s right to vote! #ElectionProtection #VotingRights #SomosCHIRLA #Election2026

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We unite to show LA is not afraid of the attempts to limit our communities’ ability to participate in democracy! 🎥 remarks by Assemblymember Isaac Bryan ✊🏽 #Elections2026 #California

Today, community leaders, labor advocates, elected officials, & #California election officials are coming together for an #ElectionProtection event to reaffirm a shared commitment to protecting every eligible Californian’s right to vote! #ElectionProtection #VotingRights #SomosCHIRLA #Election2026

“We are united in protecting your vote! With the election 6 weeks away, I want LA county to know we are ready! In this election, on election week, we will run continuous ballot processing.” - Dean Logan, LA County Registrar

Today, community leaders, labor advocates, elected officials, & #California election officials are coming together for an #ElectionProtection event to reaffirm a shared commitment to protecting every eligible Californian’s right to vote! #ElectionProtection #VotingRights #SomosCHIRLA #Election2026

“We are united in protecting your vote! With the election 6 weeks away, I want LA county to know we are ready! In this election, on election week, we will run continuous ballot processing.” - Dean Logan, LA County Registrar

“Elections offer us the opportunity to choose our representation. Fundamental to elections is your participation, access to information and confidence in the system. Here in LA County, we’re doing everything we can to participate in safe, free elections!” —Supervisor Holly Mitchell #Elections2026

Today, community leaders, labor advocates, elected officials, & #California election officials are coming together for an #ElectionProtection event to reaffirm a shared commitment to protecting every eligible Californian’s right to vote! #ElectionProtection #VotingRights #SomosCHIRLA #Election2026

“We are united in protecting your vote! With the election 6 weeks away, I want LA county to know we are ready! In this election, on election week, we will run continuous ballot processing.” - Dean Logan, LA County Registrar

“The voting rights act has protected everyone in America denied access to ballot box. I urge everyone to make a plan to vote and help your family, friends, & colleagues to do the same. Let’s turn this country around & have safe elections!” — Rep. Judy Chu @chu.house.gov

An immigrant champion fights for justice, supports their community, and reminds us that none of us succeed alone. As we celebrate 40 years of the movement for immigrant justice, we want to hear from you. 🦋 What makes an immigrant champion?

🎬 Happening today! Join us at 2 PM PT/5 PM ET for a special screening of America; I Too & America's Family, plus a live Q&A with CHIRLA Executive Director Angelica Salas & immigration attorney Yunuen Trujillo. 🍿 Watch free on the LatiNation app or on LatiNation TV. LatiNation Media

Thank you to every guest, honoree, donor, sponsor, & ally that made our #ImmigrantChampionAwards 2026 possible! Last night, we honored the vision that built CHIRLA — and the movement still guiding us forward. #CHIRLA40 #SomosCHIRLA