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Immigration Legal Resource Center
A. Title of
agency or organization? Immigrant Legal Resource Center
B. Where is home base (city/state/country)? San Francisco, CA, USA
C. Date founded? 1979
D. Names of key spokespersons/officers Founded by Bill Hing
E. What/who is key constituency or audience? Key audience is made up
of lawyers, paralegals, legal service agencies, as well as
immigrants and citizens
F. What are the agency’s main activities? The agency’s main
activities are providing trainings, materials and advocacy to
advance immigrant rights. The ILRC offers expert technical
assistance in legal immigration and policy.
G. Mission statement? (you may quote mission statement if available;
use quotation marks!)
“The ILRC works with immigrants and citizens to make critical legal
assistance and social services accessible to all, regardless of
income, and to build a society that values diversity and respects
the dignity and rights of all people.”
H. What are the key im/migration issues of concern to this agency?
ILRC aims to help immigrants face legal and social problems. They
deal with many areas in immigration law, including family-based
immigration visas and adjustment of status, naturalization and
citizenship, political asylum, deportation and inadmissibility,
immigration relief for abused immigrant women and children.
I. As best as you can determine, on what
evidence/sources/research/community does this agency base its
informational statements issued, press releases, reports, etc.?
While the ILRC uses government policy on advising immigrants of
their rights, they also encourage immigrants to play leading roles
in confronting and reshaping the laws and policies that perpetuate
racial, economic and social injustice.
J. Any publications? (what types, sample titles; if online, give
links) ILRC offers more than 20 publications for immigration
attorneys, paralegals and community based advocates, as well as for
teachers, volunteer advocates, and social workers.
http://www.ilrc.org/publications.php
K. Give at least one citation about this agency from a newspaper
article (preferably an Arizona newspaper). Use a citation index to
research this e.g., Lexis Nexis, available from the Migration Course
Web Page made by the Fletcher Library:
http://library.west.asu.edu/subjects/SOC/soc331.html Briefly
state what the article is about, and provide a quote from the
article that includes the agency’s name and gives a good idea of
this agency’s perspective on im/migration. Note: not a quote from
agency’s own web site!
In The San Francisco Chronicle 12/22/02 there was an article about
immigrants protesting former Senate Majority Leader and Mississippi
Senator Trent Lott’s racist comments. “Representatives from The
Immigration Legal Resource Center said Lott should resign from his
position as majority leader, which he did on Friday”.
L. Any other issues of interest about the agency?
M. Is the agency noticeably pro or con immigration? (You may need to
determine this from “reading around” in its position papers, press
releases, news reports, etc). Pro
N. Web site? Give URL
http://www.ilrc.org |