ADC Legal supports many Arab Americans who experience discrimination and harassment in the workplace because of their Arab ethnicity. When Arabs are discriminated against in the workplace, ADC Legal investigates the complaint, provides legal advice on the federal anti-discrimination law, and helps them file complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Please note that the content of this website is not intended to replace the advice and guidance of a lawyer. The legal information contained on the adc.org website has been prepared by ADC`s legal department as a service to its readers and users of this website and does not constitute legal advice. The initiative provides an opportunity to connect with Arab-American lawyers, law students and other lawyers across the country. NAALA members are kept informed of the ADC`s legal work as well as key issues affecting the Arab-American and legal communities. Register today! CDA`s legal department focuses its advocacy efforts on legal issues that have a major impact on the Arab-American community, including discrimination in the workplace, discrimination in education, travel-related discrimination, and immigration. The Legal Department continued its efforts to work with established coalitions and establish new partnerships with other minority groups on issues of mutual interest. In addition, the legal department maintains close relationships with government agencies to ensure that the different voices of the Arab-American community are heard by key decision-makers in the U.S. government.

ADC Legal regularly provides legal advice to Arabs seeking immigration assistance and information on refugee status, temporary protected status, and asylum in the United States. CDA also provides assistance with the filing of immigration applications and applications. In some cases, ADC Legal takes on a case and represents people who are destitute or in a unique legal situation that has national implications. ADC wants to process all cases, but resources are limited due to financial constraints. CDA is developing a legal resource guide that includes information on knowing your rights and obtaining legal advice, as well as a national list of lawyers in the network. This guide is available online and in print and distributed to all CDA members every six months. You will be guided through the process with expert and tailor-made advice from a team of highly qualified and passionate lawyers and an extensive knowledge base. NAALA offers lawyers and jurists the opportunity to fully engage in the work that supports CDA and the community. Events throughout the year include content panels, legal education programs (CLE), the implementation of educational programs, and the organization of networking events nationwide.

Are you a lawyer? Get involved with ADC! Since the beginning of the program, the ADC, several members of Congress, and many civil rights activists have raised questions about the constitutional legality of NSEERS discrimination based on national origin. We urge you to contact public officials, including the media, and request that the NSEERS program be completely completed. In fact, Asa Hutchinson, then Under Secretary of State at DHS for Border and Transportation Security, said at the 2004 ADC convention, “We hope to completely end this particular registration program because our long-term goal is to treat everyone equally, not where you`re from.” The ADC found that 84,000 Arabs and Muslims volunteered and 14,000 of them were later expelled for voluntarily participating in the program. But none, not a single one, of these registrants has been charged with terrorism. In December 2004, the NSEERS program was amended by the Department of Homeland Security, but many elements remain and are subject to abuse, including: the recording of departures; registration at ports of entry; as well as the possibility of restarting the convocation phase. It seems clear that NSEERS has become another tool used in immigration and law enforcement in general, raising serious constitutional questions, as the program clearly discriminates on the basis of national origin. Since 1980, CDA`s legal department has striven to simultaneously address a consistently high workload and to firmly defend the rights of Arab Americans on a number of important political issues. In late 2002, the Department of Justice`s Immigration and Naturalization Service (now known as the Department of Homeland Security-DHS and its component agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement-ICE) launched a campaign known as the National Security Entry and Exit Registration System (NSEERS) with special phases of call-based registration. It is very important that any incident of account closure or rejection be reported to ADC`s legal department so that we can work to properly resolve the issue and address the underlying discrimination. If your account has been closed or frozen, click here to report the incident to ADC`s legal department.

(Be sure to include the name of the financial institution in the incident report.) Each membership includes free entry into the Legal Resource Guide. The program was rolled out in separate phases and male visitors were invited to voluntarily join the program. The failure to adequately publicize the program and adequately train immigration officers has resulted in poor implementation of NSEERS. Thousands of men who had to register may not have done so due to lack of notification and are now vulnerable to NSEERS sanctions. Reports suggest that hundreds of people who volunteered to register at INS offices across the country (but mostly in California) were arrested and detained without reasonable justification. According to media reports, many detainees had requests awaiting adjustment of their status, which the INS had not yet responded to. Farraj v Cunningham (9th Circuit), which raises the use of biased therapist reports in a family court case as a violation of due process rights. (The case is still closed) ADC Legal supports Arab-American students who experience discriminatory grading, punishment, discriminatory scholarship selection, and discrimination and harassment for expressing their political views on campus.

ADC is also working with the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Education to improve services for Arab children learning English as a second language. Review the apps carefully before submitting your ad. We require electronic artwork to be in high resolution (300 dpi) and in the format of a .pdf or .jpg? The.