The Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) ( Finally!!!! )
Posted By: Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* on April 20, 2008

The Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) is America’s only public interest law organization working exclusively to protect the legal rights, privileges, and property of U.S. citizens and their communities from injuries and damages caused by unlawful immigration.

The injuries caused by illegal aliens in your community have become a growing crisis in communities nationwide:

U.S. workers wages and working conditions are hurt when employers discriminate in favor of cheap illegal alien labor.
Honest businesses suffer lost revenue and profits due to unfair competition.

Students experience discrimination when illegal aliens take over their schools and colleges and demand special treatment.

Ordinary Americans suffer life-threatening injury and pain when local police who refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities fail to detain drunk driver or criminal illegal aliens.

Greedy landlords turn neighborhood homes and apartments into modern slums by packing them with illegal alien tenants.

Concerned town officials want to respond to citizen complaints without intruding on civil rights, but don’t know where to turn for advice.
Civic groups need help to fight nuisance and environmental stress associated with mass influxes of immigrants.

IRLI seeks to defend the rule of law. (EXAMPLE: Unfair Competition Action for Use of Illegal Alien Labor - Global Horizons Inc. v. Munger Brothers LLC et. al. California Superior Court for Kern County No. S-1500-cv-258904-SPC (2006) Download Complaint: http://www.irli.org/CA_GlobalHznsVMungerBrost.pdf

HOW YOU CAN HELP

IRLI is at the forefront of immigration related legal reforms that are helping to make America safer. IRLI champions local ordinances that have a direct impact on the quality of life of Americans everywhere. The legal battles that IRLI is involved in as the only immigration enforcement focused public interest law group will shape the legal landscape.

Where IRLI has been involved in legal efforts to reform immigration, we’ve had substantial success. But, in order to keep defend these victories and continue to provide the public with the high-quality legal and legislative advice needed to advance the cause of immigration reform, we need your help today.

Your tax-deductible donation to IRLI is important — it gives us the resources we need to continue the fight for effective immigration enforcement and hold our government accountable for the uncontrolled, mass immigration we have today. The cause of immigration reform can be substantially advanced through public interest legal work and by your support of IRLI you will be directly contributing to this success.

Since 2001, state and local governments have played a growing role in the struggle of American citizens against illegal immigration. IRLI lawyers have specialized expertise in the development and drafting of immigration enforcement and relief measures being considered by state legislatures and local governments.

Too often, local activists have proposed immigration enforcement legislation without a proper grounding in the intricate relationship between federal and state law. IRLI provides local legal counsel with non-partisan technical support to ensure that proposed state or local legislation is constitutional and does not conflict with controlling federal law.

Since January 2006, IRLI has responded to requests for assistance in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia and other states.

Until recently, immigration law has been primarily formed and interpreted by immigration lawyers who examined the issue solely through the lens of their non-citizen clients. Policymaking is housed in the judiciary committees in Congress, while in the Executive Branch, generally the Department of Justice and more recently the Department of Homeland Security have held sway. Little attention has been paid to the volume of immigration, and the aggregate impact of overall immigration on US population growth.

To assist policymakers in reforming current immigration laws, IRLI also provides public comments for executive agency regulatory rulemaking.

Broad public support for immigration law enforcement will continue to be frustrated so long as the rationale for immigration limitation remains underdeveloped within the law itself. Through the development of law review articles and legal issue briefs, IRLI contributes to development of a doctrinal framework which the legal community and the judiciary may rely upon to consider the broader national interest when interpreting and formulating immigration law.
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