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Help for Immigrant Families: Guidance for Schools
Publication Date
03/27/2017
As a trusted institution in immigrant families’ lives, schools can play a critical role in ensuring immigrant families have access to important information and resources during these turbulent and scary times. This document contains tips on what schools can do to help.

The ILRC wishes to thank the loyal sponsors and donors who support the ILRC and its fight to protect and defend the rights of immigrants and their families. Because of your generosity, our work continues and grows stronger. 



 

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Donors

Anonymous

American Immigration Lawyers Association - NorCal

Professor Richard Boswell* and Professor Karen Musalo

Mr. W. Hardy Callcott *& Ms. Nancy Spencer

Fellom & Solorio (Partners-Paula J. Solorio, Emma Gallardo, and Pablo Lastra)

Professor Bill Ong Hing* & Dr. Lenora V. Fung

Immigration Institute of the Bay Area

Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood

Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP

Ms. Lisa P. Lindelef

Mr. Sambou Makalou*

Mr. Luca Mangini* & Ms. Siobhan Nolan Mangini

Ms. Michelle Mercer & Mr. Bruce Golden

Minami Tamaki LLP

The Morrison & Foerster Foundation

Ms. Toni Rembe* and Mr. Arthur Rock

Ms. Lisa Spiegel* & Mr. Michael Ungar 

Van Der Hout LLP

Professor Allen Weiner* and Ms. Mary J. Dent

Roger Wu, MD

 

*ILRC Board of Directors Member

 

Monthly Giving Club: The ILRC’s Monthly Giving Club lets you pledge your continued support to the ILRC’s work throughout the year. A recurring monthly charge will be made to your credit card on file for as long as you designate. To activate recurring giving, please go to our donation page and check the box, “Make this a recurring gift” in the section called, “Recurring Gift.” If you have any issues or need to update your card information, please contact Cynthia Housel at chousel@ilrc.org.

Matching Gift Program: You may be able to double or triple your contribution to the ILRC through your employer’s matching gift program. Check with your human resources department to learn more.

Workplace Giving: Workplace giving campaigns offer the convenience of giving to one agency that disperses gifts to the organizations you designate. Options for giving can include a one-time gift or a year-long pledge that is automatically deducted from your paycheck each pay period.

Planned Giving: There are multiple factors to consider when making a planned gift including your lifetime income needs, the needs of dependent family and friends, and the use of your money after your death. Carefully structured planned gifts can provide many benefits and additionally help to sustain the important work of the ILRC on behalf of the immigrant community. A legacy in honor of your loved one or family can provide charitable tax-deductions to reduce your income taxes or help avoid capital gains tax on appreciated securities. Contact your accountant or attorney for more information.

Gift of Stock: A gift of securities is one of the easiest ways to make a donation in support of immigrant rights. Donating appreciated securities such as stocks or mutual funds can significantly increase funds available for your contribution and provide a charitable deduction. A donor can avoid capital gains tax on gifted shares that have increased in value. If you have or plan to make a gift of stock, please send Cynthia Tirado Housel, Director of Leadership Giving, an email at chousel@ilrc.org with the date of transfer, number of shares, and company name of the stock or see the DTC Form for instructions. Contact the ILRC for more information.

Mail a Donation: If you prefer to mail a donation to the ILRC, please address it to: ILRC, c/o Development Dept., 1458 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103.

For more information about supporting the work of the ILRC, please contact Cynthia Housel at (415) 321-8570 or chousel@ilrc.org.

Practice Advisory
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Practice Advisory: Aggravated Felonies
Publication Date
04/10/2017
The immigration statute designates certain types of crimes as “aggravated felonies.” See INA § 101(a)(43), 8 USC § 1101(a)(43). These are the most dangerous type of convictions for a noncitizen. Despite the name, this definition reaches offenses that are neither felonies nor aggravated. It can include selling $10 worth of marijuana, a misdemeanor shoplifting offense with a one-year suspended sentence, or failure to appear at a criminal hearing. The person must be convicted of the offense, not merely commit it, for aggravated felony penalties to apply.
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FAQ on Trump’s Executive Order on Sanctuary Cities
Publication Date
04/26/2017
President Trump issued an Executive Order on immigration enforcement in January 2017.  The Order included sections ordering that sanctuary cities would not be eligible to receive federal funding.  This fact sheet breaks down the key issues raised by the Executive Order, examining the possible meanings of the order, and the legal limitations on what the President can do.
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Economic Contributions by Salvadoran, Honduran, and Haitian TPS Holders
Publication Date
04/19/2017
Report by the ILRC that calculates the economic losses of ending TPS for El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti. Losses include cost to taxpayers, GDP reduction, decrease in Social Security and Medicare contributions, and turnover costs for businesses.
Practice Advisory
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Naturalization Reduced Fee Option and Fee Waiver
Publication Date
04/26/2017
This practice advisory reviews options for naturalization applicants who cannot afford the filing fee for the Form N-400, Application for Naturalization: the reduced fee option (Form I-942) and the USCIS fee waiver (Form I-912). The practice advisory also provides resources and tips for completing either application.

Employment Opportunities

The ILRC Is an Equal Opportunity Employer 

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The ILRC is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, people of color, persons with disabilities, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals to apply. The ILRC abides by the SF Fair Chance Ordinance.

Employee Benefits

For a list of benefits provided to ILRC employees, please visit this page.

 

Law Clerk Opportunities

Position Description: Law clerks will be assigned to a variety of projects and supervised by an ILRC attorney. Assignments span the ILRC's diverse project areas including policy, legal trainings, and immigrant civic engagement. For example, last year’s intern projects included, research and writing for ILRC’s practice advisories and manuals widely used by immigration practitioners; community engagement and community presentations; and work on implementing laws authored and co-sponsored by the ILRC. Each clerk is assigned an ILRC mentor attorney and the summer program includes immigration law trainings created especially for our law clerks.

Qualifications: Applicants with strong legal research and writing skills and a demonstrated commitment to immigration issues are encouraged to apply. A ten-week commitment is preferable and fluency in other languages is a plus. For further details on our summer clerkship program, see the posting above.

Law students are accepted for the spring and fall semesters and during the summer. We generally accept summer law student applications from January through February.

We accept law student applications to work during other times of the year on an ongoing basis. During the spring and fall semesters we ask that law students commit to a minimum of 12 hours per week for the entire semester.

For law student internship requests, we ask that you use the “Summer 2020 Law Program” link above to submit an application.

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Redacted Sample Penal Code 1473.7 Motion to Vacate
Publication Date
04/26/2017
Students at the UC Irvine Immigrant Rights Clinic prepared a Penal Code 1473.7 motion to vacate for one of their clients and offered it as a resource for others filing similar motions. This motion is a reference tool only, and should not be used as a template or a model, nor should it be reproduced without substantial alterations. If you are filing a 1473.7 motion, you must perform your own legal research and draft your own materials, as the law in this area is rapidly changing and case-specific motions have significantly higher success rates in criminal courts.
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Sample Post-Conviction Relief Intake Form in English & Spanish
Publication Date
04/26/2017
This intake form, available in both English and Spanish, is designed to assist legal service providers and nonprofit organizations interested in screening clients for immigrant post-conviction relief services.
Practice Advisory
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Understanding Allegations of Gang Membership/Affiliation in Immigration Cases
Publication Date
04/28/2017
Immigrants who are alleged to be involved with gangs are top immigration enforcement priorities for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This is true even if they have no criminal convictions and DHS is targeting them based on allegations alone. If such individuals choose to apply for immigration benefits, they may be exposing themselves to serious risk. This practice advisory discusses what gangs and gang databases are, how allegations of gang membership arise in immigration cases, the over-inclusive process law enforcement employs to allege gang membership, and strategies to identify whether your client may be labeled a gang member or associate. The purpose of this advisory is to help immigration advocates better understand how law enforcement in the United States documents and alleges gang membership or association, such that advocates are able to identify red flags in cases, and are better prepared to work with clients to assess possible risks in filing for relief.
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Know Your Rights Script & Skit
Publication Date
12/04/2017
The Know Your Rights Skit is a guide for presenting know your rights materials in the case of contact with ICE. The document includes a skit which is designed to educate participants while reducing fears.

The ILRC does not provide direct legal services or individual legal consultations. To find legal services assistance, go to: Immigration Advocates Network National Immigration Legal Services Directory, American Immigration Lawyers Association Immigration Lawyer Search, or contact your local state bar association.

You can find community resources here.

If you’re looking for information about our Red Cards, including artwork you can customize for your own organization, see here. Please note that we no longer fulfill requests for cards through email.

If you have a question about our Attorney of the Day service, you can find more information here.

If you are interested in purchasing our Publications or Trainings, please see here. A reprint permissions form can be found here.

Toolkit & Reports
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The Promise of Sanctuary Cities and the Need for Criminal Justice Reforms in an Era of Mass Deportation
Publication Date
05/04/2017
Local criminal justice policies, such as vagrancy laws and cash bail requirements, endanger vulnerable immigrant populations and undercut the promise of “sanctuary” cities, according to a report released today by Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project, the Immigrant Defense Project, and the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. The report urges city and county leaders who want to protect immigrants to act swiftly to end harmful criminal justice practices that criminalize poverty and send undocumented residents into the deportation pipeline.
Practice Advisory
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T Visas: What They Are and How They Can Help Your Clients
Publication Date
05/09/2017
This practice advisory is designed to introduce legal workers to the T visa.  It outlines T visa eligibility requirements, discusses the advantages of applying for T visas over other forms of humanitarian immigration relief, and analyzes how President Trump's recent executive orders impact T visa applicants.