As you meander around Los Angeles these days, you may be likely to run into Solidarity Signs stuck to the doors or windows of some of your favorite businesses and restaurants.
Solidarity Signs are the cornerstone of a grassroots program launched by the Immigrant Legal Resource Council (ILRC) called Know Your Rights Solidarity.
The signs are free to download online for businesses, including restaurants, libraries, clinics, community centers, and schools, to let their customers, neighbors, and passersby know that it supports and openly welcomes all members of its community. Furthermore, the signs emphasize that the business has the legal right to deny entry to its private areas to anyone, including ICE, as long as its agents don’t have a judicial warrant.
They also inform the public as to what everybody’s legal rights are, regardless of immigration status…