Immigrant Support Atlas

Foreign-born share over time

How the immigrant share of the population shifts across the country. Press play to animate. Source: US Census ACS 5-year.

Access to immigrant-serving organizations

Spatial access by the enhanced two-step floating catchment area method (E2SFCA). Darker green = better access; orange = a service desert (people who need it, but no organization within reach); gray = no foreign-born population. Source: org locations + US Census ACS 2023.

Immigrant Policy Inclusion Index

How inclusive each state’s policies are toward immigrants, across seven domains: health coverage, language access, higher education, identification, integration & licensure, legal protection, and economic inclusion. Darker green = more inclusive; orange/red = more restrictive or limited. Click any state for its full profile.

Immigrant–Native Disparity Index

Standardized gaps between foreign-born and US-born residents (uninsured, crowded housing, rent burden, education, home internet, vehicle access, homeownership) from US Census ACS. Green = smaller gaps; red = larger gaps. This is an outcome measure, separate from the Policy map: it describes how immigrant and US-born residents differ, and is shaped by who has immigrated where (recency and composition), not by state policy alone. Click any state for its full profile.

English assimilationism

Project Implicit is a self-selected volunteer sample, not a representative survey; within each area, respondents are reweighted to the Census population by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and citizenship. Higher = less welcoming. Areas with too few respondents are left blank. See the note below for the exact survey item. Source: Project Implicit 2023-2025.

Immigrant attitudes

Project Implicit is a self-selected volunteer sample, not a representative survey; within each area, respondents are reweighted to the Census population by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and citizenship. Higher = less welcoming. Areas with too few respondents are left blank. See the note below for the exact survey item. Source: Project Implicit 2023-2025.

El Rescate

1501 W 8TH STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90017-4379

El Rescate is a nonprofit organization in Los Angeles, California that serves immigrants and refugees.

El Rescate provides low-cost immigration legal representation (asylum, VAWA, DACA, U-visa, TPS, SIJS, family petitions), citizenship/naturalization assistance, and know-your-rights advocacy primarily to Latino, especially Salvadoran, immigrants in Los Angeles.

Mission

El Rescate's mission is to empower immigrants, in particular Latinos, to improve their political and economic wellbeing in order to promote their full participation as citizens...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “committed to advocacy for the rights of the refugee and immigrant communities, both in the courts and in the media”
  • Citizenship: “assisted more than 10,000 immigrants in the process of applying and receiving U.S. citizenship, with classes and paperwork”
  • Civic engagement: “El Rescate participates in events at schools and churches and other venues to educate the immigrant community about their rights and our services, including citizenship classes.”
  • Family reunification: “145 I-130 Petitions”
  • Legal / immigration: “El Rescate provides representation to individuals seeking asylum in the United States based on past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution.”
  • Cultural programming

Languages

Services delivered in Spanish, Farsi, K'Iche'.

Website in more than one language.

Communities served

Hispanic/Latino.

Service area: Los Angeles, CA.

Federal recognition and registries

  • DOJ-recognized immigration legal provider
  • On EOIR’s list of free legal service providers

Contact

Founded 1996. IRS NTEE code S200. Revenue $1M-4.99M. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 95-4307587.

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Immigrant profiles by origin, language, and race / ethnicity

Pick a group to see its own profile: how large it is and how it lives, with the all-foreign-born and US-born averages shown for context. National estimates from US Census ACS 1-year microdata (PUMS).