Siembra NC was born in 2017 in response to Trump’s war on immigrants and the gap in support and resources for the broader Latine community in North Carolina.

We are a grassroots organization focused on defending our communities from abusive employers and landlords, ICE, and bad políticos.

We fight back. We create solutions. We change policy.

We organize committees in counties across North Carolina to fight for better working and living conditions for our gente. We fight issue campaigns in coalitions with other basebuilding groups. We work hard, but we also play hard, with comités such as our Queer comité putting on cultural events so we can learn about our rights while we celebrate who we are.

We also collaborate with the political grassroots and digital hub Mijente on nationwide campaigns to mobilize Latines in North Carolina to participate in broader movements for justice and human rights of our gente.

* IDoD and our partners are unified in supporting Siembra NC and following their guidance in North Carolina.

To report activity &/or request support, call or text Siembra NC’s hotline:

📞 336-543-0352 - save it on your phone!

If you’ve witnessed or had a personal contact report ICE presence (no need to call us about social media posts shared by people you don’t know).

If you see people dressed like civilians parked for prolonged hours in a residential area, with tinted windows, making traffic stops in a neighborhood.

When reporting, provide the SALUTE info:

Size: Number of agents or vehicles
Activity: What the agents are doing
Location: Specific address / intersection
Uniform: What the agents are wearing
Time: Date and time of incident / sighting
Equipment: Any vehicles, weapons, or tools

Be prepared to provide the following information:

+ Whether you witnessed the situation yourself or you were told by someone else.
+ The exact location of the situation you witnessed.
+ A detailed description of the events, including car makes and models.

When speaking with friends and family or posting to social media, please share only verified information about ICE or CBP activity to avoid misinformation.

While taking photographs and video of things that are plainly visible in public spaces is a constitutional right, always be mindful of the risks associated before you act. Safety first!

These resources provide excellent guidance on how to safely document law enforcement (or choose not to!):

Filming Immigration Enforcement in the U.S.

We Have Rights (short videos)

NC ACLU: You Have the Right To Film Police

Filming Immigration Enforcement

Filming Protests and Demonstrations

Defend and Recruit is a project of Siembra NC. Our strategies include:

+ Empowering groups to build and scale local ICE watch networks and hotlines, because we protect us.

+ Growing networks of Fourth Amendment Workplaces, helping employers and workers understand their rights if ICE shows up.

+ Leading a national campaign against Avelo Airlines, the only private carrier complicit in ICE’s deportation system.

+ Sharing and curating a growing library of toolkits and resources that help groups defend immigrants and build local power

We are supporting the national network for immigration defense, a community rooted in the urgent need to defend our people and protect one another. But we know that lasting change requires transforming solidarity into structure, translating defense into offense, and outrage into organizing. Learn more about us & how you can get more involved here.

The American Civil Liberties Union was founded in 1920 in reaction to nationwide civil rights abuses in the wake of World War I. In the years since, the organization has evolved from a small group of idealists into the nation’s premier defender of the rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. With nearly 2.0 million members, over 1700 employees - 500 of whom are staff attorneys and 200 working as policy and organizing experts - and offices throughout the nation, the ACLU of today continues to fight government abuse and to vigorously defend individual freedoms.

Customs and Border Protection in NC Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are have expanded their operations across North Carolina, but we are here to help.

287(g) Agreements in North Carolina‍ ‍
A 287(g) agreement gives local law enforcement the power to enforce federal immigration law—something they normally cannot do. These agreements turn local officers into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, fueling deportations, racial profiling, and fear in immigrant communities.

Know Your Rights: Immigrants' Rights‍ ‍

Faces of North Carolina Narratives
The Faces of North Carolina is a video series campaign dedicated to highlighting the stories of immigrants and their families living across our state. At a time when anti-immigrant rhetoric is growing, this campaign seeks to humanize the individuals behind these harmful narratives and demonstrate the vital role immigrants play in the prosperity of North Carolina.

What is the purpose of the OJO OBRERO map?

Siembra NC launched this new tool, OJO Obrero, to help workers get to work safely, help kids get to school, and provide information useful to anyone who wants to protect the Constitution during a time of rampant illegal racial profiling, deportations without due process and detentions of US citizens.

The website designed to help immigrants assess their risks and learn the patterns that lead to an arrest. It allows users to search by time of day and to see photos of the kinds of vehicles most often targeted by ICE.

OJO Obrero only features sightings that we can confirm involve federal immigration agents, rather than crowdsourced reports.

Watch a short video about the tool here.

Please share it with your contacts who might benefit from it.

The Immigrant Defenders Law Center is located in CA, but their extensive resources apply everywhere.

When a family member is detained, every moment counts – but you don’t have to face it alone.

Know your rights, gather key details from ICE, and create a Family Preparedness Plan so your family knows what to do in case of detention. View this guide on Instagram from the Immigrant Defenders Law Center to learn:

+ How to use the ICE Locator
+ What information to ask ICE for right away
+ How to safely store important documents

Resources:

How to Find a Detained Family Member (English)

How to Find a Detained Family Member (Spanish)

Know Your Warrants

Know Your Rights Resource Packet

The American Immigration Council strives to strengthen the United States by shaping immigration policies and practices through innovative programs, cutting-edge research, and strategic legal and advocacy efforts grounded in evidence, compassion, justice and fairness.

We collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including policymakers, grassroots organizations, and immigrant communities, to advance results-driven solutions to the challenges facing immigrants and communities throughout the United States.

Immigrants in NC: https://map.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/locations/north-carolina/

The Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) was founded over 20 years ago to combat an emerging human rights crisis: the targeting of immigrants for mass imprisonment and deportation.

As this crisis has continued to escalate, IDP has remained steadfast in fighting for fairness and justice for all immigrants caught at the intersection of the racially biased U.S. criminal and immigration systems. IDP fights to end the current era of unprecedented mass criminalization, detention and deportation through a multipronged strategy including advocacy, litigation, legal advice and training, community defense, grassroots alliances, and strategic communication

Provides: Legal Advice & Training, Impact Litigation, Policy & Advocacy, Community Defense, Strategic Communication