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The work of the Rapid Response Coalition generally falls into 3 primary pillars: Community Defense & Preparation, Detention Solidarity, and Advocacy & Organizing. All of these efforts require YOU: your energy, your skills, your financial support, and more. This list is not exhaustive and will be edited continuously. Please explore these organizations and efforts directly to show up, support and join the movement.

Community defense & preparation

Types of efforts and work include:

  • Hotline: Reporting & Verifying Immigration Enforcement Activity

  • ICE Watch Trainings

  • Know Your Rights Trainings

  • ICE Check-in Accompaniment

  • Brake/Tail Light Clinics

  • Education about legal scams

  • Power of Attorney Workshops

  • Youth Passport Workshops

Detention Solidarity

Types of efforts and work include:

  • Rapid Response Hotline: Detainee locating, Impound Lot negotiation, Communication App support, Access to information

  • Abide in Love (Phelps, Ste. Genevieve, Greene) Detention PenPals & Commissary Support

  • Detained Intakes: volunteer attorneys and interpreters meet with detained immigrants to explore opportunities for relief

  • Pro-bono representation and legal resource referrals

  • Religious Sisters accompaniment of citizen children to visit detained parents

  • Immigrant Family Emergency Response (IFER) Fund

  • Resource referrals and additional support for family members of detained loved ones

Advocacy & Organizing

Types of efforts and work include:

  • Workplace preparedness trainings

  • Building groups for community defense training

  • Ending the police-to-ICE pipeline

  • Canvassing

  • Missouri Immigration Policy Coalition

  • Annual Day at the Capital (Feb. 17, 2026)

  • Worker & Immigrant Solidarity Actions