"AALDEF focuses on critical issues affecting Asian Americans, including immigrant rights, voting rights and democracy, economic justice for workers, educational equity, housing and environmental justice, and the elimination of anti-Asian violence, police misconduct, and human trafficking."

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AALDEF engages in the following activities:

• litigates cases that have major impacts on the Asian American community;

• provides legal resources for community-based organizations and facilitates grassroots community organizing efforts;

• conducts free, multilingual legal advice clinics for low-income Asian Americans and new immigrants;

• educates Asian Americans about their legal rights;

• comments on proposed legislation and governmental policies; and

• trains students in public interest law and encourages them to use their legal skills to serve the community.