The Oregon Department of Justice unveiled a Sanctuary Promise Community Toolkit as the sanctuary state gears up to resist the incoming Trump administration’s plan to deport illegal immigrants. 

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, a Democrat, said the toolkit, which is available as an online website, includes brochures, posters, and public service announcements in English, and Spanish. 

“I asked my Civil Rights Unit here at the Oregon DOJ to do whatever we could to provide the people, businesses, and local governments of our state with easy-to-read materials to help them know their rights and educate others,” she announced in a press release. 

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“I recommend having conversations with family members in the next several weeks to know your rights, understand what protections Oregon’s sanctuary laws provide and what they do not provide, and make a plan for what to do if immigration officials come to your home or place of business,” Rosenblum added.

The toolkit provides resources to illegal immigrants such as a crisis hotline, and avenues to report a suspected Oregon Sanctuary Law violation. 

“Every person has the right to live, work, play, and learn safely in Oregon, period,” Rosenblum said.

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The state’s move comes as President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to follow through on his campaign pledge of transporting people in the United States illegally back to their native country. The looming deportation effort will be led by “border czar” Tom Homan,  the former director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who has said he will initially focus on removing illegal immigrants who have committed violent crimes. 

Homan told the Washington Examiner in mid-December that there would be “a lot of collateral arrests,” in addition to those aforementioned — meaning that illegal immigrant children and family members found living with criminals would also be swept up and deported.

In 1987, Oregon became the first state in the nation to adopt sanctuary city laws, meaning state and local governments — as well as police departments — are not allowed to enforce federal immigration law without a court order.  

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The Beaver State held approximately 120,000 undocumented immigrants, or 2.9% of the state’s population, in 2022, according to data from the Pew Research Center. Illegal immigrants account for 4.4% of Oregon’s labor market.

Although Rosenblum is set to leave office in Jan. 2025, her successor has signaled he will follow her stance on sanctuary policies. Incoming attorney general Dan Rayfield indicated he was prepared to file lawsuits against the next Trump administration during an interview with the Oregon Capital Chronicle, calling concerns from the state’s illegal immigrants “very real and scary.”