CARECEN's new location at 8th Street and Union Avenue. Orientation talk by paralegal Eduardo Gonzalez.

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 1991
CARECEN legal staff and volunteers counsel and register thousands of people for TPS. In June alone, CARECEN processes nearly 8,000 applicants. By the end of the TPS application period, CARECEN registers 14,340 applicants, twice as many as any other agency nationwide, 7% of the national total of 200,000.
      CARECEN, Legal Aid Foundation of LA, Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, and the National Immigration Law Center file CARECEN et al v.Daryl Gates in Los Angeles. This case challenges the Los Angeles Police Department’s practice of illegally inquiring into people’s immigration status — victims and suspects alike — and calling in the INS to pick up individuals without papers.
      As the crisis in Guatemala worsens and death toll rises, CARECEN devotes more of its resources to bringing international attention to the Guatemalan struggle. CARECEN participates in a national coalition to obtain TPS for Guatemalans so that they may remain in the U.S. until the war is over.
      CARECEN-LA works with CARECEN organizations in Washington, D.C., Houston and San Francisco and other Salvadoran immigrant rights organizations including Centro Presente in Boston, Centro Romero in Chicago, CRECEN in Houston, to establish the Salvadoran American National Network (SANN).
      In March 1991, a prestigious law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher sends four of its attorneys, together with two CARECEN staff and an interpreter to El Salvador to conduct an intensive investigation of the January 19, 1991 massacre of fifteen peasants in the town of El Zapote.
      CARECEN sends a delegation of attorneys, journalists and an aide to Congressmember Richard Gephardt to El Salvador to investigate alleged violations of journalists’ freedom of expression. As a result of the delegation’s findings, CARECEN and the Non-Governmental Human Rights Commission file a complaint against the government of El Salvador before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, on behalf of the only opposition newspaper in El Salvador, Diario Latino, which had been fire-bombed in February.