Partner Toolkit

Advocates’ Checklist

In anticipation of a year full of attacks by anti-immigrant and anti-safety net politicians, we’ve compiled a checklist of actions that you, your colleagues, and your coalitions can take right now to prepare. These resources are applicable at the local, state, and national level, using examples and resources to fortify your advocacy. We encourage you to treat this as a “menu” of tactics to strengthen your community’s protections for immigrant families.

The checklist is available in English and Spanish. Many thanks to Andrea Kovach of the Shriver Center on Poverty Law for sharing her great content to create much of this checklist, as well as PIF’s State Policy Working Group, which reviewed and added to the document.

We consider this a living document, so we invite you to contribute! You can add comments into the document directly. If you have actions, examples, or resources that you feel should be included, please send them to alicia@pifcoalition.org.

Trump Public Charge Talking Points and Social Samples

In the wake of November’s election, families will face concerns that a Trump win could result in the return of Trump’s public charge policy or similar restrictions. We worked with our Community Education WG members to develop talking points available in English, Spanish, and simplified Chinese. If you use them, we would love to hear how they worked – please share your experience with Alicia Wilson and Ed Walz of the PIF team.

We’ve also prepared some simple social media samples to help you get the word out. This document includes both sample captions and images in English and Spanish.

DACA Affordable Care Act pitches and Social Samples

Starting November 1, new regulations make an estimated 100,000 people with DACA eligible for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces. But states and the federal government have done little to alert immigrant families to this opportunity. We’ve worked with partners to develop two pitches — a shorter one and one with more detail —that can help your organization start a conversation with local reporters to share this information with local families and help eligible people get the care they need.

New Arrivals

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and some other politicians serving communities that have historically welcomed immigrants have responded to the arrival of recent immigrants by taking anti-immigrant positions. Senate Democrats also shifted this year, now pushing a floor vote on anti-immigrant legislation despite the objection of more than 100 nonprofits. As Election Day approaches, more such attacks are likely, and some – like Mayor Adams’ – will focus on the cost of providing health care, housing, and other services that meet the basic needs of immigrant families, suggesting an important defensive role for PIF partners.

Public statements by PIF partners can help to balance the scales, so that anti-immigrant critiques are not the only messages shaping the public debate. Your statements can also send an important signal to politicians that attacks on immigrant families will have consequences.

We want to make it easier for your organization to raise its voice if and when you make that choice. To that end, we’re sharing three resources developed in collaboration with PIF partners:

If you end up using one of these resources, please let us know by emailing Ed Walz of our Communications Working Group or Alicia Wilson of our Community Education Working Group.

Biden Public Charge Final Regulation Toolkit

Updated December 2023

These resources are intended to make it easier for partners to conduct community outreach or advocacy activities. PIF may be able to provide additional support. To learn more or discuss further, please contact info@pifcoalition.org.