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CRLAF provides immigrant and mixed-status families critical 'Know Your Rights' trainings and information, legal implications and available tools to ensure that children are legally protected, should their primary caregiver be detained by ICE, fall ill, or be otherwise unable to provide necessary care.
CRLAF assists immigrants prepare for and obtain U.S. citizenship, DACA, and other visas, and provides both public presentations and private consultations on specific and complex immigration matters.
We engage in policy research and development to improve and reform state labor law enforcement efforts (particularly in the underground agricultural economy), legislative monitoring, analysis, and advocacy, and post-legislative implementation work related to state labor laws and regulations affecting the rights of farmworkers and other low-wage workers.
We advocate for stronger safe and affordable housing polices throughout California, helping to write and pass several laws to protect tenants against unlawful evictions and inhabitable living conditions.
CRLAF provides education and advocacy to increase healthcare equity for California's farmworker and rural indigent population, from the ground level to the legislature. We regularly collaborate with CBOs, health clinics and legal aids to increase awareness surrounding healthcare rights, and increase eligibility for healthcare and other public benefit programs.
In the past couple of years, CRLAF has acted as a clearinghouse for several large statewide initiatives, including protecting farmworkers against economic fallout following winter storms and throughout California's ongoing drought, facilitating efforts to protect rural migrant families from eviction in light of COVID-19's continued economic losses, and distributing filing fee funds to organizations assisting with DACA renewals across the state.