STORYTELLING FROM THE AMICA CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COMMUNITY

Every day, immigrants are facing detention or deportation without legal representation.

In the backdrop of the 2026 Men’s World Cup, Guerrilla FC and the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights have partnered to tell stories of immigrants who have been detained or deported, but not just as stories of fear. These are stories of empowerment, celebrating courage, resilience, and the drive to belong, on the field and beyond.

In the U.S., one-in-three immigrants lives with the fear that they or someone they love could be deported.

(Pew Research Center, 2025)

For many, the idea of belonging remains uncertain, even in the places they’ve helped shape. As ICE enforcement intensifies and detention facilities expand, that fear becomes more than a feeling; it becomes a daily reality.

Through extended interviews and workshops, Guerrilla FC spent months with immigrants who have been detained and deported and who continue to face everyday challenges in the US. Their stories map the realities many US immigrants face.

30% of U.S. immigrants say they are worried about being asked to prove their U.S. citizenship or immigration status during their daily activities.

(Pew Research Center, 2025)

Guerrilla FC and Amica Center are meeting this moment with intention, raising critical funds through the Monarch Collection to provide legal representation to those in detention who are at risk of deportation.

The Monarch Collection

Guerrilla FC and the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights announce the Monarch Collection, an immigrant-inspired sports apparel capsule rooted in football’s global history of movement, migration, and belonging.

Football has always belonged to immigrants, carried across borders, played in the streets, and woven into communities far from home. Inspired by the monarch’s instinctive call to migrate for survival, this collection celebrates courage, resilience, and the drive to belong, on the field and beyond.

The designs are rooted in migration, identity, movement, and football culture, expressed through a layered, intentional visual system. The aesthetic is directional, asymmetrical, and unconventional, drawing from street culture to create a sense of motion and differentiation. Rather than serving as the main graphic, the monarch appears either up close or as a subtle, referential motif. The goal is to reinforce themes of transformation and movement throughout.

Proceeds from this capsule will go to Amica Center, which provides unwavering legal defense and strategic litigation for immigrant children and adults facing detention and deportation.