Philip E. Berns, Attorney at Law, LLC

07/08/2025

. English
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!
Telling people that it is advisable and important to know their legal rights and be prepared to exercise them is like telling them to put on their seatbelts, save money for a rainy day, eat right, and exercise; people don't suffer the consequences of not doing these things in the moment they don't do them. It's later, when things get bad, that you realize you're not prepared, and by then it's too late, there's almost nothing you can do (the accident happens, there's no emergency funds, the heart attack starts), and you suffer worse consequences than if you had taken protective measures beforehand.
If people prepared (now!),
took these lessons to heart (now!), and
practiced them mentally (and better yet with each other) (now!),
deportations could be greatly delayed and often avoided ... completely ... ...
(now!)
Since the beginning of the year, when people began to realize what was going to happen, I have been invited to give many presentations on how to best protect oneself, friends, and family from deportation, and I have been invited to give several more in the near future. This knowledge is a gift and the ability to explain it simply and clearly is another, and I am happy to share it far and wide at the drop of a hat.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!
Learn how to protect yourself if ICE comes to your home, enters your home, stops you on the street, or arrests you. If you, your family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers practice these concepts and strategies, it will be nearly impossible for immigration to deport many people and you can help minimize deportations across the country.
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Español
¡CONOZCA SUS DERECHOS!
Decirle a la gente que es recomendable e importante conocer sus derechos legales y estar preparada para ejercerlos es como decirles que se abrochen el cinturón, que ahorren dinero para un día lluvioso, que coman bien y hagan ejercicio; la gente no sufre las consecuencias de no hacer estas cosas en el momento en que no las hace. Es más tarde, cuando las cosas se ponen feas, cuando se dan cuenta de que no están preparadas, y para entonces ya es demasiado tarde, no hay casi nada que puedan hacer (sucede el accidente, no hay fondos de emergencia, se produce el infarto) y sufren consecuencias peores que si hubieran tomado medidas de protección de antemano.
Si las personas estuvieran preparadas (¡ahora!),
tomaran estas lecciones en serio (¡ahora!) y
las practicaran mentalmente (y mejor aún, entre sí) (¡ahora!),
las deportaciones podrían retrasarse en gran medida y, a menudo, evitarse ... por completo ... ...
(¡ahora!)
Desde principios de año, cuando las personas comenzaron a darse cuenta de lo que iba a suceder, me han invitado a dar muchas presentaciones sobre cómo protegerse mejor a uno mismo, a los amigos y a la familia de la deportación, y me han invitado a dar varias más en el futuro cercano. Este conocimiento es un don y la capacidad de explicarlo de manera simple y clara es otro, y estoy feliz de compartirlo a lo largo y ancho en un santiamén.
¡CONOZCA SUS DERECHOS!
Aprenda a protegerse si el ICE llega a su hogar, ingresa a su hogar, lo detiene en la calle o lo arresta. Si usted, su familia, sus amigos, sus vecinos y sus compañeros de trabajo practican estos conceptos y estrategias, será casi imposible que la inmigración deporte a muchas personas y usted podrá ayudar a minimizar las deportaciones en todo el país.
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Kreyol
KONNEN DWA W!
Di moun ke li rekòmande e enpòtan pou konnen dwa legal yo epi prepare pou egzèse yo se tankou di yo mete yon senti sekirite, ekonomize lajan pou yon jou lapli, manje byen, ak fè egzèsis; moun pa soufri konsekans yo pa fè bagay sa yo nan moman yo pa fè yo. Se pita, lè bagay yo ale mal, yo reyalize yo pa t prepare, epi lè sa a li twò ta, pa gen prèske anyen yo ka fè (aksidan an rive, pa gen lajan ijans, atak kè a kòmanse), epi yo soufri pi mal konsekans. pase si yo te pran mezi pwoteksyon davans.
Si moun yo te prepare (kounye a!),
te pran leson sa yo nan kè (kounye a!), epi
pratike yo mantalman (e pi byen toujou, youn ak lòt) (kounye a!),
depòtasyon yo ka retade anpil e souvan evite ... konplètman ... ...
(kounye a!)
Depi nan kòmansman ane a, lè moun yo te kòmanse reyalize sa ki t ap vini yo, yo te envite mwen fè anpil prezantasyon sou fason pou pi byen pwoteje tèt ou, zanmi, ak fanmi kont depòtasyon, epi mwen te envite bay plizyè lòt nan tou pre. lavni. Konesans sa a se yon kado ak kapasite pou eksplike li tou senpleman ak klèman se yon lòt, e mwen kontan pataje li byen lwen ak lajè nan yon batman kè.
* KONNEN DWA OU!*
Aprann ki jan pou w pwoteje tèt ou si ICE rive lakay ou, si antre lakay ou, kanpe ou nan lari, oswa arete ou. Si oumenm, fanmi w, zanmi w, vwazen, ak kòlèg travay ou pratike konsèp ak estrateji sa yo, li pral prèske enposib pou imigrasyon depòte anpil moun epi ou ka ede minimize depòtasyon atravè peyi a.
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¡CONOZCA SUS DERECHOS! Aprenda a protegerse si la inmigración (ICE) llega a su hogar, entra en su casa, lo detiene en la calle o lo arresta. Si usted, su fam...

07/08/2025

Sample Asylum interview (most people I see applying currently do not qualify, and of the few who do, many do not have the evidence, documents and proof to give them a good chance to win)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvUHMWVsVek&pp=ygVAU2lnbiBpbiBBc3lsdW06IFlvdXIgQ2FzZSBJcyBJbiBZb3VyIEhhbmRzIC0gSW5ub3ZhdGlvbiBMYXcgTGFiINIHCQmyCQGHKiGM7w%3D%3D

07/08/2025

Asylum - maybe not a good idea?
ENGLISH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh5hyRsX6K4&pp=ygVAU2lnbiBpbiBBc3lsdW06IFlvdXIgQ2FzZSBJcyBJbiBZb3VyIEhhbmRzIC0gSW5ub3ZhdGlvbiBMYXcgTGFiIA%3D%3D
KREYOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXTnvGtUbRQ&pp=ygVAU2lnbiBpbiBBc3lsdW06IFlvdXIgQ2FzZSBJcyBJbiBZb3VyIEhhbmRzIC0gSW5ub3ZhdGlvbiBMYXcgTGFiIA%3D%3D
ESPAÑOL https://youtu.be/NVugGm-bFy8?si=FMNaIbmRdu56MnRr
[6/6/2025 9:44 PM] Attorney/Abogado Philip "Felipe" Berns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvUHMWVsVek&pp=ygVAU2lnbiBpbiBBc3lsdW06IFlvdXIgQ2FzZSBJcyBJbiBZb3VyIEhhbmRzIC0gSW5ub3ZhdGlvbiBMYXcgTGFiINIHCQmyCQGHKiGM7w%3D%3D

Asylum basics video in English, by Innovation Law Lab with support from the UC Hastings Center for Gender and Refugee Studies. Innovation Law Lab, based in P...

07/08/2025

Red folder for undocumented immigrants ...

01/10/2023

Same information in radio interview format, again in the Haitian Creole language:

GOSPEL FOR EVERYONE. PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF SANCTIFICATION IS MY MISSION AND MAKE DISCIPLES FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD.JGL MINISTRY

01/10/2023

About newly announced (1/6/23) humanitarian parole program for Haitians Cubans Nicaraguans, Venezuelans and Ukrainians. Explanation here is in Haitian Creole.

Vandredi ki te 6 janvye 2023 pawol kou esponsorize yon moun pou vin travay nan Etazini tonbe. Avoka Philip Berns ap pote presizyon sou kisa nou dwe fè pou ka...

10/21/2021

In response to NYT article:

The heart of President Biden’s climate agenda is in jeopardy

10/17/21

Dear Senator Manchin,

I am not your constituent but feel compelled to write you.

I fear global and permanent implications with respect to two positions you have taken and, after having thought many months about it, take up pen and paper to write you.

I believe there can be no doubt that the world, not just United States and West Virginia, faces an existential threat from global warming. President Biden's infrastructure bills aren't nearly enough to prevent a great deal of harm, but they propose by far the biggest and most meaningful steps that have been proposed to date. Even if they pass, we in United States and people around the world are in for a world of suffering. If it doesn't pass that suffering will be far worse. It appears that you are the one staunch obstacle to our taking this first truly meaningful step to countering this problem. I beg you, not just for our sakes, but for those of our children, our children's children and the many generations that will suffer for the decisions we've made and not made in the last several decades, to take whatever steps may be necessary to "get the show on the road". If that means jettisoning the filibuster rules for global warming issues, then so be it. It is unimaginable to me that should you continue to fail to act and obstruct the most meaningful steps ever proposed to slow down the coming environmental disasters, that your name will not go down in infamy for as long as these days are remembered in human history: The one man whose vote might have changed the world and prevented the worst disasters, but did not.

With reference to what I believe to be an existential threat to American democracy, please, support the suspension of the filibuster with reference to legislation having to do with voting rights. Failure do so will mean minority rule in United States for decades to come with profound consequences to confidence in our government and even that we are a democracy at all. It may even permit the pendulum to simply swing too far and, like the Roman Republic 2000 years ago, end any semblance of democracy once and for all leading to the sorts of leaders and governments that our founding founders most wanted to avoid. We may very well be teetering on the edge already with armed mobs storming the seat of democracy and the minority that will benefit from restricted voting rights seeking to sow doubt about elections we know to have been fair and seeking to splinter the country into more and more hostile camps.

I cannot imagine anything you have done or could do in your entire career in Congress, indeed your life, that could have a longer, more profound, and even permanent global impact, than your votes on these matters.

Sir, every informed, concerned and enlightened person on earth must ask: what is stopping you? Generations unborn will ask what stopped you? Both we in the present and those of the future ask you today to ... very simply ... do the right thing.

Philip Berns
Stamford, Connecticut

01/21/2021

12/25/2020

CREOLE/KREYOL (Français plus bas): Nan videyo sa a nou kouvri twa sijè, yon sèl la PREMYE se diferans ki genyen ant rimè kap kouri yo sovaj ak pèsepsyon moun te gen sou sa Trump te fè imigran yo ak lwa yo imigrasyon kont verite a nan sa ki te pase, DEZYÈMMAN, ki dwa imigran san papye gen lè konfwonte pa ICE, e DENYÈ, ki etap senp imigran san papye nan Etazini yo ta dwe pran sou yon baz chak jou, chak semèn ak chak mwa pou prepare pou chanjman nan lavni nan lwa oswa nouvo pwogram ak inisyativ pou ede yo pou yo prepare pou pran avantaj de yo.
FRANÇAIS: Dans cette vidéo, nous couvrons trois sujets, le PREMIER est la différence entre les rumeurs sauvages et les perceptions des gens sur ce que Trump faisait aux immigrants et les lois sur l'immigration par rapport à la vérité de ce qui s'est passé, DEUXIÈMEMENT, quels droits ont les immigrants sans papiers confronté à ICE, et ENFIN, quelles sont les étapes simples que les immigrants sans papiers aux États-Unis devraient prendre quotidiennement, hebdomadairement et mensuellement pour se préparer à de futurs changements de lois ou à de nouveaux programmes et initiatives pour les aider afin qu'ils soient prêts à profiter de leur.

12/25/2020

¿Quiere mejores leyes de inmigración? ¿Quiere poder legalizarse en los EEUU? ¿Cansado de sentirse impotente; con su futuro en las manos de otros que no tiene su bienestar y intereses en mente? ¿Aburrido esperando que otros toman decisiones que afecta su vida y la vida de su familia profundamente sin poder influir estas decisiones? Este video le explique paso por paso que pueden hacer los 11 millones de indocumentados (y sus familiares, amigos, compaños, y aliados) para completamente cambiar el dialogo y asi la politica y, en consecuencia, las leyes de inmigración, y lograr una "Reforma Migratorio" que permite los indocumentados que no cometeron crimenes legalizarse. Este video fue hecho en 2016, pero los conceptos no han cambiado. Y no deben usar estes tacticos solo durante elecciones presidentiales, pero tambien para influir quien son nuestros alcaldes y consejales en nuestros pueblos y ciudades, quien serán nuestros gobernadoros, senadores y asemblecistas de nuestros estados, y quienes merecen ser elegidos para ser nuestros senadores y representantes al congreso en Washington!


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