How we help

How We Help

Migrant Legal Aid believes that human dignity and equal rights must be protected for the entire community, including migrant and seasonal farm and food workers.

Family

Legal Services

Migrant Legal Aid provides bilingual legal advice, representation, outreach and education to essential migrant and seasonal farm and food workers, a vulnerable subsection of our immigrant communities. Our areas of focus are equitable employment, minimum wage protections, safe housing, stable income, worker protections, pesticide safety, health and wellness, education, and civil rights. Our work includes fighting labor trafficking, defending against hate, empowering victims of violence, protecting family stability, and crisis intervention through our Fair Food program.
Assistance for Children

Programs

In addition to legal services, our policy and advocacy work helps ensure our community is a safe and equitable place for all. In addition to our Fair Food Project, our life-changing programs combat domestic violence, human trafficking, and anti-migrant bias and hate crimes.
Field

Pesticide Exposure

88% of children whose parents work with pesticides test positive for these toxic chemicals’ metabolites. Migrant Legal Aid advocates for safer work environments for agricultural workers and helps enforce our existing pesticide exposure rules. We develop and disseminate educational material to empower compliance with the EPA’s Worker Protection Standard for pesticide safety.

Outreach and Housing

Migrant Legal Aid provides mobile outreach services to migrant labor housing sites to support worker and family rights to safe and suitable housing and working conditions. The direct site visits and observations allow us to quickly and personally address workers’ concerns and intervene to avoid crises.

Advocacy

Proposed changes to laws, regulations, and government policies often have the potential to significantly affect the rights and responsibilities of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and food workers, who are an isolated and vulnerable subset of the (mostly) immigrant community. Migrant Legal Aid provides information and education sought by government officials who seek the migrants’ perspectives on their policies. Migrant Legal Aid also works to educate its client community on proposals that may help or harm them.

Community Education

Migrant Legal Aid provides mobile outreach to the migrant labor housing sites and other community locations to advocate, train, teach, and educate workers and community advocates. Areas of education include equitable employment, minimum wage protections, safe housing, stable income, worker protections, pesticide safety, health and wellness, education, and civil rights. The education process also supports our work fighting labor trafficking, defending against hate, empowering victims of violence, protecting family stability, and performing crisis intervention through our Fair Food program.

Referrals

For nearly 50 years, our client population has included documented and undocumented workers and family members. We are an established and trusted resource for this vigilantly guarded community, weary of outside offers to help. As a trusted messenger and confidant to this worker community, we serve as a hub of resource referrals to trusted points of contact with other migrant service providers. Often, we are the first contact – a point of triage – for families in crisis.

Need Help? Contact Migrant Legal Aid

If you or someone you know has legal issues, questions, or concerns about migrant and seasonal farmworker or food worker rights, we are here to help. Contact Migrant Legal Aid.
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