Corporations and governments have tried to control and intimidate working people for generations by exploiting our immigration status. Local 11 members help each other enforce our rights at work and in the community.
The fundamental protections in the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights apply to EVERY PERSON, regardless of immigration status. Know your rights when you are questioned or detained by ICE.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!
STANDING WITH OUR UNION SISTERS AND BROTHERS OF LOCAL 17 IN MINNEAPOLIS
Thousands of people came together to stand against ICE at the MSP Airport in Minneapolis. Nearly 100 clergy put their bodies on the line in an act of civil disobedience, praying for our brothers and sisters of Local 17 who have been detained and holding their names and faces high. We stand in solidarity with Local 17 and all the people of Minneapolis.
Workers at Crypto.com Arena Calling on LA28 and IOC to Keep ICE Out During the Olympic Games
As Los Angeles prepares to host the 2028 Olympic Games, workers at Crypto.com Arena took action to demand safe, welcoming Olympic venues free from the sorts of heavy-handed and abusive immigration enforcement that we have seen in Los Angeles and elsewhere in recent months. Workers delivered hundreds of petition signatures from their coworkers urging Crypto.com Arena to call on LA28 and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to commit to keeping Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other immigration enforcement agencies out of Olympic venues and events.
“This arena runs because of immigrant workers.” said Marisela Gomez, a Stand Lead at Crypto.com Arena, where she’s worked for 15 years. “The Olympics will only succeed because of immigrant workers. If LA wants to welcome the world, it has to protect the people who make that welcome possible.”
US CITIZENSHIP FAIR WITH YOUR LOCAL 11 LEGAL FUND—CALL NOW TO SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT: (213) 785-6999
February 26, 2026
LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE
Hosted by Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai, LLP
For UNITE HERE Local 11 Legal Fund members only
Work with an immigration attorney at no cost! You only pay 20% of the filing fee—$152. The Legal Fund covers the rest!
To get started, you’ll need to be Legal Fund eligible and provide the following:
Call (213) 785-6999 before January 22, 2026 to schedule an appointment
Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai, LLP
250 E. 1st Street, Suite 1201, Los Angeles, CA 90012
[email protected]
www.hsrlegalfund.com
NO ICE IN LA
On Saturday October 4 we marched together with a powerful coalition of orgs, unions, and community groups to protest ICE and the $29.9 billion giveaway they received to tear our country apart. We took to the streets to fight for justice, dignity, and freedom, and to say: NO more ICE in our neighborhoods, NO more raids or fear, and YES to love and the power of the working class.
LA TIMES: ‘We are going to take back MacArthur Park’: Hundreds protest against federal immigration raids in Los Angeles
Taking Back MacArthur Park
On August 12, 2025 UNITE HERE Local 11 and union and community allies took back MacArthur Park following the military-style immigration raid that happened there a few weeks back. The labor movement and its allies are taking back the city and reclaiming it as our own LA is a union town!
Prepare a Family Plan
IRIS ACOSTA
Iris Acosta is a housekeeper at the W WestBeverly Hills. She is knocking on doors in Arizona for Kamala Harris and to defeat Trump! Thank you, Iris.
DINA PAREDES
Meet Dina Paredes, a housekeeper from the Alsace Hotel who went on strike last year and is now knocking on doors in Phoenix, Arizona to win the presidency for Kamala Harris. Way to go, Dina!
LA TIMES: House Democrats urge probe of L.A. hotels for ‘potentially predatory behavior’ toward migrant workers
Hollywood hotels scrutinized for financing under visa program: ‘Not fair’, say critics
Dina Paredes
Dina Paredes works at the Westin Bonaventure in downtown Los Angeles. A native of El Salvador and mother of two US citizen kids, she has lived in this country for more than 20 years and is a recipient of Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Dina went to canvass to Arizona durong the 2020 presidential election to fight for her family and for all working immigrant women struggling to make ends meet.
Thousands of immigrants with “protected status” face possible deportation
IRIS ACOSTA
Los Angeles Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride
Los Angeles Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride
In September 2003, in the tradition of the Civil Rights Movement Freedom Rides in the sixties, the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride left from 10 cities with 900 riders from 50 different countries on a journey across the U.S. to fight for the rights of all immigrant workers.
This is the story of the Los Angeles Freedom Riders, led by Maria Elena Durazo and including many Local 11 workers.