Welcome to the latest installment of the Race Equity Project’s e-newsletter. We hope you found our last edition on Race, Poverty, and Health Care informative. In this installment, our authors discuss their immigration work and the impact of current U.S. immigration policies and issues on impoverished communities of color.

In this e-newsletter, we present four articles.  The first provides an historical perspective of immigration in our country, placing Arizona’s SB1070 into context.  The second provides an overview of the T-Visa and U-Visa processes and the third provides examples of legal service attorneys working with clients to obtain lawful immigration status using the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and the U-Visa.  Finally, the last article discusses the obstacles for asylum seekers who need legal representation.  We hope that you will find these articles provocative and inspiring.

Understanding SB1070 From the Lens of Institutionalized Racism and Civil Rights – Professor Bill Ong Hing, University of San Francisco

How LSC Programs Can (and Should) Do Immigration Work – Erin Hernandez, California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, and Gillian Sonnad, Legal Services of Northern California

An Overview of the T-Visa and U-Visa – Patricia Medige, Colorado Legal Services

A Matter of Life and Death: Asylum Seekers’ Lack of Access to Competent Legal Representation – Yunie Hong, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, and Timothy Griffiths, Survivors of Torture, International

Do you have an idea for a future e-newsletter? Would you like to share the race-based work that you are doing with others interested in achieving race equity? Drop us an email. We would love to hear from you!

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