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There are many ways you can get involved and organize support in your own community to help immigrant families. Click here for ideas on what you can do! In addition to our ongoing initiatives, NNIRR encourages participation in campaigns and events that we support as part of our broad, collective effort to advance justice and rights. Check them out.

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NNIRR’s education and capacity building supports a multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual and anti-oppression movement led by those bearing the brunt of the effects of injustice and oppression: low-income immigrant and refugee communities.

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The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) works to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and refugees, regardless of immigration status. Since its founding in 1986, the organization has drawn membership from diverse immigrant communities, and actively builds alliances with social and economic justice partners around the country. As part of a global movement for social and economic justice, NNIRR is committed to human rights as essential to securing healthy, safe and peaceful lives for all.

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NNIRR welcomes membership of both organizations and individuals. As part of a larger movement, members both receive benefits and actively participate in NNIRR’s collective efforts.

There are many ways you can get involved and organize support in your own community to help immigrant families. In addition to our ongoing initiatives, NNIRR encourages participation in campaigns and events that we support as part of our broad, collective effort to advance justice and rights.

NNIRR has set an ambitious goal to raise funds to support its vital organizing work. Please help us to reach our goal of: $25,000.

As we navigate this critical election period, NNIRR calls on you to join us in our vital mission. Your support is essential to nurture the leadership of frontline women organizers to counter the devastating impacts of the far-right and on the lives of migrants, refugees, and people of color in the borderlands. Click here to learn more about our campaign.

Grassroots Organizing Campaign

NNIRR has focused on strengthening organizing and movement-building along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands –a region that continues to be “ground zero” for anti-immigrant policies and an epicenter of racial, political, and economic injustice. Through a series of strategic alliances with organizations on the ground, NNIRR launched the BRIDGE Institutes for Human Rights Leadership in 2023, an effort to train a new generation of human rights leaders on the theory and practice of human rights and the skills to anchor human rights organizing in their communities. Beyond the institutes, NNIRR is building a network of women leaders and women-led organizations to advance human rights. More information about the campaign will be coming soon.

#DefundHate

Detention Watch Network launched this initiative to cut off the flow of money that allows the Department of Homeland Security to deport and detain our community members. Money is one of the only barriers to Trump’s DHS fully enacting its hate-fueled detention and deportation nightmare. Check out the campaign messaging and other tools and stay up-to-date on the current campaign.

No Muslim Ban Ever

No Muslim Ban campaign formed during the Trump Administration to organize against the racist and hateful travel bans targeting African and Muslim migrants and refugees. In the Biden Administration, the campaign is organizing for the No Ban Act to prevent future Muslim Bans. For more information on the campaign go No Muslim Ban Ever

Value our Families Campaign

The Value Our Families Campaign exists to protect, preserve, and strengthen the family immigration system and promote an immigration system that is informed by love, empathy and justice. We are a network of local and national community-based and advocacy organizations who reject attacks and proposed harmful changes to our current family-based immigration system. We also will work together to build public support for an immigration system that protects and promotes family unity and contributes to the American social and economic fabric. For more information on the campaign and its programs: Value our Families

Protecting Immigrant Families Campaign

A network anchored by the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), and a steering committee of 15 other member organizations, the “Protecting Immigrant Families, Advancing Our Future” (PIF) Campaign is made up of hundreds of diverse organizations. Our mission is to unite to advance, protect and defend access to health care, nutrition programs, public services and economic support for immigrants and their families at the local, state and federal level. You can learn more about PIF Campaign and initiatives here.

Support US Ratification of UN Migrant Workers Convention

Please join the NNIRR in seeking ratification of the UN Convention on the Protection of Rights for All Migrant workers and Members of Their Families, also known as the Migrant Workers Convention or “MWC”.

Sign the Call for Support! Over the coming months (and likely, years) we will be raising awareness among policy makers and the public to urge that the U.S. affirm its commitment to the human rights of immigrants by ratifying the Convention. Our education campaign will make the links between international protections enshrined in the MWC and other international agreements to our own fight for equality and justice for immigrants in this country. And, ratification by the U.S. would send a signal to the rest of world about this country’s support for human rights.

Go here for more information and links to the support pledge.

National Prison Divestment Campaign

The National Network has joined a national campaign targeting the private prison construction industry, which promotes and profits from the incarceration of immigrant men, women and children and others in the U.S. and worldwide. Enlace, in partnership with community groups and unions across the US, is calling on all public and private institutions to divest their holdings in Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group, America’s largest private prison corporations which have profited from billions in taxpayer money.