Asian Law Caucus Programs

Our Program Areas:

Immigrants’ Rights Program: Leverages litigation, legal services, and organizing/outreach for permanent resident and undocumented immigrants in the Bay Area around detention; deportation; constitutional and due process claims, including supporting community mobilization and education regarding comprehensive immigration reform.

Criminal Justice Reform Program: Challenges inequities in the criminal justice system by providing community education, legal representation, and policy advocacy on behalf of low-income immigrants in the justice system, limiting local law enforcement collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by challenging programs such as “Secure Communities” (S-Comm), and promoting restorative justice as an alternative to punitive approaches to criminal justice.

Housing Advocacy and Community Development Program: Provides legal assistance to low-income tenants and seniors and seeks to build community infrastructure in low-income neighborhoods.  The Project also represents community constituents in the public planning process.

Employment & Labor Program: Defends the rights of low-wage immigrant workers.

National Security and Civil Rights Program: Challenges national security practices that impinge on the civil rights of South Asian, Muslim, Sikh, and Middle Eastern descent, including unfair searches and interrogations of individuals returning to the United States after travels abroad.  The Project uses litigation, policy advocacy, and community education to protect the civil rights and civil liberties of vulnerable communities.

Voting Rights & Voter Empowerment Program: Through legal advocacy, community collaboration, & education, the project seeks to expand and protect the voting rights of the Asian American & Pacific Islander communities to ensure the full participation of all eligible voters in the electoral process. Since 2000, the ALC has jointly conducted multi-lingual exit polling and poll monitoring in San Francisco Bay Area to document and advocate against numerous barriers that effectively disenfranchise limited English proficient communities.