The California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA) today announced the release of its annual statewide legal report that analyzes and summarizes all civil rights and immigration complaints in 2020 reported to CAIR-CA’s offices in the San Francisco Bay Area (CAIR-SFBA), San Diego (CAIR-SD), Greater Los Angeles Area (CAIR-LA), Sacramento Valley and Central California areas (CAIR-SV/CC).
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According to the report, CAIR-CA legal staff handled a total of 1,769 intakes in 2020.
CAIR-CA’s immigration attorneys represented clients on matters including removal defense, naturalization, adjustment of status, family reunification, employment authorization, and asylum. Immigration attorneys assisted in a total of 1,305 immigration-related matters.
This report highlights the impact of pandemic-related border closures and travel restrictions, including assisting Yemeni Americans who struggled to ensure the safety of their loved ones who found themselves stranded in Yemen and unable to return home.
Of the 1,769 intakes in 2020, 771 were handled by CAIR-LA, 748 by CAIR-SFBA, 192 by CAIR-SV/CC, and 58 by CAIR-SD. The categories receiving the most incident reports for 2020 were immigration (61%), travel (8%), employment discrimination (5%), and law enforcement harassment (5%).