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Featured Resources

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  Workplace Raids: Employer Rights and Responsibilities

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  Fact Sheet on Hate Crimes

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  Relief Funds for Undocumented Workers in California

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  I-9 Audits Comparison Table

  An overview of some of the most common reasons an employer might tell you it is reviewing your work authorization documents

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Free Legal Information, Fact Sheets

Fact Sheets

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  Employment Rights of Undocumented Workers
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  Language Discrimination
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  Discrimination and Harassment in Employment
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  Document Abuse (Identification Documents at Work):Things You Should Know About Proving Your Work Status to Your Employer
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  Updating Your Social Security Number With Your Employer
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  Workplace Raids: Workers’ Rights
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  I-9 Audits
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  SSA No-Match Letter

Sample letters

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  Sample Letter: If your employer creates "English-only" rules
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  Sample Letter: Document Abuse
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  Sample Letter: How to Update Your Social Security Number with Your Employer
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  Sample Letter: Termination after Updating Social Security Number
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  Sample Letter: Re-verification of Employment Authorization
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  Sample Letter: Retaliatory Re-verification
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  Sample Letter: Response to Employer Threats No-Match Letters
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  Sample Letter: Social Security No-Match Letters for Employers

Our Amicus Work

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  Amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit opposing summary judgment in favor of an employer that claimed its demands to an immigrant worker for documentation were justified by its attempts to comply with IRCA (Zamora v. Elite Logistics, Oct. 25, 2004)
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  Amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit concerning IRCA-based retaliation against immigrant restaurant workers (Arroyo v. Redeye Grill, Mar. 6, 2007)
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  Amicus brief to the Supreme Court of Georgia concerning the constitutional rights of limited-English-proficient criminal defendants to interpreter services at trial (Ling v. Georgia, May 28, 2010)
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  Amicus letter to the Supreme Court of California concerning the impermissibility of discovery into the immigration status of plaintiffs in industrial injury cases (Turcios v. Superior Court, Aug. 29, 2011)
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  Amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States concerning the harms of workplace discrimination against observant Muslim employees (EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, Inc., Dec. 9, 2014)
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  Amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit concerning the impermissible role of racial stereotypes in an employer’s prohibition against Black employees’ wearing their hair in dreadlocks (EEOC v. Catastrophe Management Solutions, Nov. 10, 2016)
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  Amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit regarding the lack of congressional intent to preempt states’ historic police power to regulate employment, including by affording workplace protections and remedies to undocumented workers (Torres v. Precision Industries, Inc., Nov. 8, 2018).
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  Amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit concerning the proper preemption analysis when considering federal immigration law’s impact on state-law remedies available to undocumented workers (Torres v. Precision Industries, Inc., Aug. 13, 2020).
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  Amicus brief to the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Sixth Appellate District, regarding California laws prohibiting immigration-status discovery relating to liability for violations of state labor and employment laws (Rigoberto Jose Manuel v. Superior Court, June 1, 2021)

Additional Resources

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  Non-Attorney (“Notario”) Immigration Fraud (published by the State Bar of California)
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  About DACA and Employment (National Immigration Law Center, United we Dream, Advancing Justice-ALC)
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  Family Preparedness Plan (Immigrant Legal Resource Center)
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  Immi.org
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  Immigration Advocates Network
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  Alto Trump
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  Red Cards (Immigrant Legal Resource Center)
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  Basics on ICE Warrants (Immigrant Legal Resource Center)
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  EEOC National Origin Guidance
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  Summary of EEOC Report on Harassment
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  Social Security No-Match Letter Toolkit (National Immigration Law Center)
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  Social Security No-Match Guidance (Department of Justice)
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  Social Security No-Match Guidance for Employees (Department of Justice)
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  Social Security No-Match Guidance for Employers (Department of Justice)

Highlights of Our Work

• US Spanish speakers decry 'second-class' treatment under Trump

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• Former employee at Bay Area solar company alleges discrimination

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• Fresno Bee Covers LAAW’s efforts to End Courthouse Immigration Arrests

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• Appeals court rules for former immigrant denied job as state prison guard

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• Central Valley Farmworker Wins $1 Million Settlement in Groundbreaking Labor Retaliation Case

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• Cali grad among lawyers helping detainees at SFO

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• Inmigrante gana caso de represalia

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• Workers Sue Over Workplace Discrimination, English-Only Policy

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• Job protections extend to immigrants using false ID, court rules

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• Judge: Abercrombie & Fitch ban on Muslim head scarf is illegal

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Government Agencies

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  U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

  EEOC enforces federal job discrimination laws.

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  California Department of Fair Employment and Housing

  DFEH enforces state discrimination laws in housing, jobs, and public accommodations.

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  U.S. Department of Justice, Immigrant and Employee Rights Section

  DOJ enforces parts of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

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  California Labor Commissioner

  The California Labor Commissioner combats wage theft, retaliation, and enforces parts of the California Labor Code.

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