Nilc.org is an organization to help protect rights of poor immigrants.
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NILC Home
Description
Since 1979, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) has been dedicated to protecting and promoting the rights of low income immigrants and their family members. In the past 20 years, NILC has earned a national reputation as a leading expert on immigration, public benefits, and employment laws affecting immigrants and refugees. Our extensive knowledge of the complex interplay between immigrants' legal status and their rights under U.S. laws is an essential resource for legal aid programs, community groups, and social service agencies across the country.
Policy Analysis & Advocacy. With a strong presence in Washington, D.C., NILC develops in-depth analyses of proposed legislative and regulatory changes that advocates and policymakers rely on for accurate, insightful information. NILC disseminates timely updates and alerts, convenes on-going workgroups of national advocacy organizations and community agencies, and coordinates strategic responses to policy changes. NILC has been convening biweekly national conference calls on immigrant welfare implementation issues since 1996, and has convened monthly meetings of a national coalition on low wage immigrant workers since 1998.
Impact Litigation. Over the years, NILC's attorneys have won significant legal victories, including several nationwide injunctions that protect immigrants' access to the courts and their right to due process. As a result of NILC cases, immigrants in INS detention must be afforded access to an attorney, and children in INS custody must be put in contact with an adult relative or legal service agency who can help them. Thousands of immigrants have received prenatal care, cancer treatment, and other critical health services for which they are eligible because NILC litigation protected them from months of bureaucratic limbo and faulty INS record-keeping. We regularly co-counsel with other leading public interest firms, such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and with private law firms working pro bono, such as Hogan & Hartson and Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe.
Languages
English
Contact
- NationalImmigrationLaw Center
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- Los Angeles CA
- United States 90010
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- +1.9999999999
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External Links
- Alexa: Nilc.org
