The article addresses the heightened fears of migrant communities due to the Trump administration's anti-immigrant policies and the response from advocacy groups like the Asylum Seeker Solidarity Collective (ASSC) in Portland. ASSC focuses on empowering asylum seekers by providing training on their rights, essential in the face of increasing ICE raids. However, limited resources hinder their ability to meet training demands, leading to adaptations such as 'train the trainer' sessions. Organizers highlight the strategic challenges of prioritizing responses to the ongoing situation, emphasizing the importance of community solidarity and resilience in advocacy work.
The more immediate day-to-day priority is making sure that the people who we've been organizing with, asylum seekers over the past couple of years, know their rights and are prepared for what might happen.
We did a couple big know your rights trainings with asylum seekers in November. Since then, ASSC has had many requests for more trainings, but it just don't have the resources to run them.
It's maybe the hardest thing to do as an organizer. The way that I've thought about it is really about strategy.
As the Trump administration's policies have fueled fear among migrant communities, groups like ASSC are shifting efforts toward protection through rights training.
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