ICE Actions at Arts Venues: Train the Trainer Event – Hybrid

In this program, we will provide specific best practices advice in responding to visits from ICE at your venue, including:  

• Rights you, your staff, and your patrons have when confronted by ICE agents; how to effectively assert those rights, and most importantly how to avoid threats to the safety of yourself and others in these situations;  

• Court and administrative warrants;  

• Suggestions for documenting and recording that will help to preserve your rights.  

This program equips members of the Chicago area arts and culture community with practical knowledge they can share with their staff, collaborators, and audiences to help foster safer, more informed spaces. The training is designed not only for individual preparedness, but also to support participants in sharing this information with their broader communities, venues, and networks. 

There will be an opportunity for Q&A. 

Fred Tsao, Senior Policy Counsel, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) 

ICIRR is dedicated to promoting the rights of immigrants and refugees to full and equal participation in the civic, cultural, social, and political life of our diverse society. Created in 1986 in response to President Reagan signing into law the Immigration Reform and Control Act, ICIRR has been at the forefront of helping immigrants realize and contribute to the dream that is America. 

Learn more at https://www.icirr.org/