7th National Low-Income
Immigrant Rights Conference

DECEMBER 6-8, 2009

 

 

 

Flash Drive Contents

WORKERS’ RIGHTS
IMMIGRATION LAW & ENFORCEMENT ISSUES
ACCESS TO PUBLIC BENEFITS
HEALTH CARE: ACCESS & REFORM

 

WORKERS’ RIGHTS

1.

 

Overview of Key Issues Facing Low-Wage Immigrant Workers (NILC, Nov. 2009)

2.

 

Proposals to Strengthen the Labor, Employment, and Civil Rights of All Workers within Comprehensive Immigration Reform (NILC, Nov. 2009)

3.

 

Proving Work Authorization and Reverification (NILC, Apr. 2009)

4.

 

The I-9 Process and Antidiscrimination Protections in the INA (NILC, Sept. 2009)

5.

 

Know Your Rights about the Revised Form I-9 (NILC, Sept. 2009)

6.

 

Class Action Grievance Regarding I-9 Re-verification (Orrin Baird, Service Employees International Union)

7.

 

Facts About E-Verify (NILC, updated Oct. 2009)

8.

 

Know Your Rights About E-Verify (NILC, updated Oct. 2009)

9.

 

E-Verify: Why Mandatory Employer Participation Will Hurt Workers, Businesses, and the Struggling U.S. Economy (NILC, Feb. 2009)

10.

 

How Errors in E-Verify Databases Impact U.S. Citizens and Lawfully Present Immigrants (NILC, Apr. 2008)

11.

 

E-Verify State Laws, Executive Orders, and Local Ordinances (NILC, Nov. 2009)

12.

 

Facts About Internal Revenue Service No-Match Letters (NILC, July 2009)

13.

 

Facts About the Social Security “No-Match” Letter (NILC, updated Oct. 2009)

14.

 

Why the Social Security Administration Should Terminate Its Employer “No-Match” Letter Program (NILC, updated Oct. 2009) (Superseded by “Why the Employer SSA No-Match Program Should be Terminated”)

15.

 

Nonunion Workers: Know Your Rights about the Social Security “No-Match” Letter (NILC, updated Oct. 2009)

16.

 

Trabajadores No Sindicalizados: Conozcan sus derechos sobre las cartas del Seguro Social (NILC, Oct. 2009)

17.

 

Unionized Workers: Know Your Rights about the Social Security “No-Match” Letter (NILC, updated Oct. 2009)

18.

 

Trabajadores Sindicalizados: Conozcan sus derechos sobre las cartas del Seguro Social (NILC, Oct. 2009)

19.

 

Basic Information Brief: Social Security Number Verification Service (SSNVS) (NILC, updated Nov. 2009)

20.

 

Know Your Rights about the Social Security Number Verification Service (SSNVS) (NILC, July 2009)

21.

 

Issue Brief: Immigration Enforcement During Labor Disputes (NILC, updated Nov. 2009)

22.

 

Immigration Enforcement: Know Your Rights at Home and at Work (NILC, revised May 2008)

23.

 

Ejecución de las leyes de inmigración: Conozca sus derechos en su hogar y su trabajo respecto a Inmigración (NILC, revised May 2008)

24.

 

How to Be Prepared for an Immigration Raid (NILC, Mar. 2007)

25.

 

What to Do if You Are Arrested or Detained by Immigration (NILC, Aug. 2007)

26.

 

¿Qué puede hacer si usted es arrestado o detenido por Inmigración? (NILC, Aug. 2007)

 

 

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IMMIGRATION LAW & ENFORCEMENT ISSUES

27.

 

Overview of Key Immigration Issues Facing the Immigrants’ Rights Movement (NILC, Nov. 2009)

28.

 

Overview of the Key ICE ACCESS Programs: 287(g), the Criminal Alien Program, and Secure Communities (NILC, Nov. 2009)

29.

 

More Questions Than Answers about the Secure Communities Program (NILC, Mar. 2009)

30.

 

Immigration Law: The Basics (PowerPoint) (Peggy Gleason, CLINIC, Nov. 2009)

31.

 

Practice Advisory: Recent Developments in the Categorical Approach (Isaac Wheeler, Immigrant Defense Project, and Heidi Altman, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, Oct. 2009)

32.

 

Living with Silva-Trevino (Norton Tooby and Dan Kesselbrenner, 2009)

33.

 

Practice Advisory: The Impact of Nijhawan v. Holder on Application of the Categorical Approach to Aggravated Felony Determinations (National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, June 2009)

34.

 

Removal Defense Checklist in Criminal Charge Cases (Manuel D. Vargas, Immigration Defense Project of the New York State Defenders Association, Nov. 2007)

35.

 

Immigration Enforcement in State Criminal Justice Systems (Immigrant Justice Network, 2009)

36.

 

Immigration Enforcement & the Criminal Justice System: Flow Chart Overview of a Dangerous Merger (PowerPoint) (Immigrant Justice Network, 2009)

 

 

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ACCESS TO PUBLIC BENEFITS

37.

 

Overview of Immigrant Eligibility for Federal Programs (NILC, Oct. 2009)

38.

 

Table 1: Overview of Immigrant Eligibility for Federal Programs (NILC, updated April 2009)  (NOTE [added 3/17/10]: A more recent version of this table is available from www.nilc.org/pubs/Guide_update.htm#tbl1.)

39.

 

State-funded Benefits: Immigrant Eligibility (NILC webpage)

40.

 

Immigrant Eligibility Restorations Since 1996 (NILC, Nov. 2009)

41.

 

Federal Guidance on Public Charge: When Is it Safe to Use Public Benefits? (NILC, updated May 2009)

42.

 

Sponsored Immigrants & Benefits (NILC, updated Aug. 2009)

43.

 

Confidentiality, Verification, and Reporting: What Happens to Information That Immigrants Give to the Government (NILC, from Guide to Immigrant Eligibility for Federal Programs, 4th ed., 2002, pp. 183-86)

44.

 

Policy Guidance Regarding Inquiries into Citizenship, Immigration Status and Social Security Numbers in State Applications for Medicaid, State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and Food Stamp Benefits (MHTML document) (Triagency Letter: Department of Health and Human Services [and] Department of Agriculture, available on an Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services webpage, last visited Nov. 10, 2009)

45.

 

State Measures Requiring Applicants for Public Benefits to Verify Status (2004–09):  PART I: Language of Provisions (NILC, Nov. 2009)

46.

 

State Measures Requiring Applicants for Public Benefits to Verify Status (2004–09):  PART II: Implementation and Interpretation (NILC, Nov. 2009)

47.

 

A Guide to the New and Temporary SSI Extension Law for Humanitarian Immigrants (Collaborative effort by immigrants’ rights advocates, revised May, 27, 2009)

 

 

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HEALTH CARE: ACCESS & REFORM

48.

 

Facts about New State Option to Provide Health Coverage to Immigrant Children and Pregnant Women (NILC, Apr. 2009)

49.

 

Immigrant–friendly Health Coverage Outreach and Enrollment (NILC, June 2002)

50.

 

Children of Immigrants Data Tool (MHTML document) (Urban Institute webpage, last visited Nov. 10, 2009)

51.

 

Immigrants and the U.S. Health Care System (California Immigrant Policy Center, 2007)

52.

 

Five Basic Facts on Immigrants and Their Health Care (MHTML document) (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured webpage, last visited Nov. 10, 2009)

53.

 

Immigrants and Health Care Reform: What's Really at Stake? (Randy Capps, Marc R. Rosenblum, and Michael Fix, Migration Policy Institute, Oct. 2009)

 

 

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THIS FLASH DRIVE was originally prepared for the 7th National Low-Income Immigrant Rights Conference, held in Arlington, Virginia, December 6-8, 2009.  Along with NILC, conference conveners were the American Civil Liberties Union/Immigrants’ Rights Project (ACLU/IRP), American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF), Asian American Justice Center (AAJC), Change to Win (CtW), Detention Watch Network (DWN), Jobs with Justice (JwJ), Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF), National Council of La Raza (NCLR), National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), National Employment Law Project (NELP), National Immigration Forum, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG/NIP), and National Korean American Service and Education Consortium (NAKASEC).

THE CONTENTS OF THIS FLASH DRIVE will be available, for a limited time after the conference, from NILC’s website, www.nilc.org.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS & CREDITS:  NILC thanks the following individuals and organizations for their generosity in granting permission to reproduce documents and files on this flash drive: 
Orrin Baird, Service Employees International Union, for use of “Class Action Grievance Regarding I-9 Re-verification”;   Peggy Gleason and Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., for “Immigration Law: The Basics”;   Immigrant Defense Project and Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem for “Practice Advisory: Recent Developments in the Categorical Approach”;  NLG/NIP for "Living with Silva-Trevino and “Practice Advisory: The Impact of Nijhawan v. Holder on Application of the Categorical Approach to Aggravated Felony Determinations” Immigration Defense Project of the New York State Defenders Association for “Removal Defense Checklist in Criminal Charge Cases”;  Immigrant Justice Network for “Immigration Enforcement in State Criminal Justice Systems” and “Immigration Enforcement & the Criminal Justice System: Flow Chart Overview of a Dangerous Merger”;  California Immigrant Policy Center for Immigrants and the U.S. Health Care System;  and Migration Policy Institute for Immigrants and Health Care Reform: What's Really at Stake?

The general editor, designer, and production person for all NILC materials contained in this flash drive is Richard Irwin.

Articles and tables authored by NILC:  Copyright © 2009 by the National Immigration Law Center.  All rights reserved.

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