Help Fund Immigrant Services
San Francisco needs to do everything it can to protect its immigrant community Two of the most important services for immigrants facing ICE raids are San Francisco’s Rapid Response Hotline and legal organizations that defend immigrants.
Seven supervisors have already stepped up to support our immigrant community. Call them to say thanks! If your supervisor hasn’t yet voiced their support, ask them to stand with immigrants.
Call ONE of the Supervisors. Note: only one of these Supervisors represents you. Find out which one here.
Call Script
If you live in districts 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11:
[ Supervisors Chan, Chen, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, and Walton: ]
“My name is ____. I’m a constituent, my address is ____, and I’m a member of Indivisible SF. I want to thank you for supporting the ordinance that would add $3.5 million to services that support our immigrants. I stand with our immigrant community, and I’m glad that you do too. [ Optional: why this is important to you ]”
If you live in district 4: Call Board President Mandelman
[ Currently no Supervisor ]
“My name is ____. I live in San Francisco, and I’m a member of Indivisible SF. I want to thank you for supporting the ordinance that would add $3.5 million to services that support our immigrants. I stand with our immigrant community, and I’m glad that you do too. [ Optional: why this is important to you ]”
If you live in districts 2, 3, or 6:
[ Supervisors Sherrill, Sauter, and Dorsey: ]
“My name is ____. I’m a constituent, my address is ____, and I’m a member of Indivisible SF. I would like you to support the ordinance that would add $3.5 million to services that are essential for the survival of our immigrants. These are dangerous times, and we need to keep each other safe. Please help protect our immigrants from the threat they face from the Trump administration and its federal agents. [ Optional: why this is important to you ]”
Background
As harrowing as last week was for all of us, it was particularly terrifying for our city’s immigrant community, many of whom are still so traumatized that they are afraid to leave their homes. San Francisco needs to do everything it can to protect its immigrant community Two of the most important services for immigrants facing ICE raids are San Francisco’s Rapid Response Hotline and legal organizations that defend immigrants.
If an immigrant is being abducted, the first line of defense is the SF Rapid Response Line. When a call is made, a lawyer is dispatched to help them avoid detention and deportation. But both of these services only work if there is sufficient funding to ensure that the lines remain open and there are lawyers on hand to answer each call.
In 2024, the SF Rapid Response Hotline received 1200 calls in the entire year. In contrast, they received 2000 calls in the three months of July, August, and September 2025 alone. Last week they received over 650 calls, more than half the total number for all of 2024. These services were already in need of more funding, especially after they received cuts in this year’s budget process, but additional funding will become essential if we undergo an ICE surge.
Multiple Supervisors are sponsoring an ordinance that would allocate an additional $3.5 million from the city’s reserve fund to the rapid response hotline and legal services for immigrants. Any funds not used by the end of the fiscal year will be returned to the reserve fund, so in the (unlikely) event that the crisis our immigrant community faces dissipates, it will have no impact on the financial conditions of our city. Given that the risk our immigrant community faces will likely escalate, we need this ordinance to not only pass with broad support, but to become an annual allocation until Trump is out of office.
Seven supervisors have already stepped up to support our immigrant community. Call them to say thanks! If your supervisor hasn’t yet voiced their support, ask them to stand with immigrants.history