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Immigration Rights — A Citizen's Guide

Your rights, your family, your plan — before anything happens. The door protocol, the detention playbook, red-card scripts, family preparedness, and pathways to status — written by trial lawyers at Gallardo Law Firm.

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What you'll learn

Hard-earned lessons.

  • The constitutional rights that apply to every person on U.S. soil — citizen or not

  • Exactly what to do if ICE knocks: a 7-step door protocol you can rehearse with your family

  • How to tell a judicial warrant from an ICE administrative form (I-200 / I-205)

  • The first 72 hours if you are detained: locate, document, prepare for bond

  • The Red Card: the exact language to say or hand to any officer

  • Family preparedness: POAs, school pickup, asset inventory, emergency contacts

  • Relief pathways: VAWA, U-Visa, T-Visa, cancellation of removal, adjustment, asylum, TPS

  • Recent enforcement changes: 287(g) expansion, courthouse arrests, I-9 audits, mandatory-detention expansion

Who it's for

Immigrant families and mixed-status households in Florida and Texas preparing for — or navigating — an enforcement encounter. Lawful permanent residents, visa holders, undocumented family members, and the U.S. citizens protecting them.

Adapted from our writing
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