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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