Conducts local and national organizing and education campaigns to equip immigrant-led organizations in setting the national agenda for immigration policy and immigrants’ rights.
Conducts travel seminars in U.S./Mexico border communities, works with U.S. and Mexico partners to build peace on both sides of the border. Amember of the No More Deaths Campaign (www.nomoredeaths.org), a coalition of faith communities and human rights organizations working to end border deaths.
Every summer in southern Arizona, 200-350 migrants lose their lives as they attempted to cross the Arizona/Sonora border region. Since 1998, over 2800 men, women, and children have lost their lives attempting to cross the US/Mexico border.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is a national, nonprofit, public-interest, membership organization of concerned citizens who share a common belief that our nation's immigration policies must be reformed to serve the national interest. [more]
This website is designed to help achieve the goals of the Justice for Immigrants Campaign. It provides tools and information for diocesan and community-based organizing, education, and advocacy efforts. You will find information about Catholic teachings that underpin this Campaign, as well as proposals from the Catholic Bishops to achieve reforms in our nation’s immigration laws and policies that better reflect our values as a nation of immigrants.
The Latin America Working Group is one of the nation's longest standing coalitions dedicated to foreign policy. The Latin America Working Group and its sister organization, the Latin America Working Group Education Fund, carry out the coalition's mission to encourage US policies towards Latin America that promote human rights, justice, peace and sustainable development. As a coalition, LAWG represents the interests of over 60 major religious, humanitarian, grassroots and policy organizations to decision makers in Washington. We are a trusted voice in Congress, and provide reliable guidance to policymakers who want their decisions to be grounded in human rights.
These immigration policy principles come out of the experience of MCC U.S. staff and service workers across the country. Our faith and work, rooted in Jesus’ message of reconciliation, transcends borders, honors the contributions that immigrants offer and compels us to build communities that welcome migrants. Our faith also moves us to call the government toward justice and security for our migrant brothers and sisters, and, in turn, for all of us.
MCC U.S. works to educate constituents about important immigration issues by coordinating educational and resource events in our constituent churches, providing up to date information and resource materials on immigration issues, assisting constituents interested in developing an immigration program, and working with the MCC U.S. Washington Office to promote immigration advocacy.
Convenes hundreds of national groups to advocate on a range of immigration policy issues, and equips local advocates and service providers across the country.
The National Immigration Law Center's mission is to protect and promote the rights and opportunities of low-income immigrants and their family members. NILC staff specialize in immigration law, and the employment and public benefits rights of immigrants. NILC conducts policy analysis and impact litigation and provides publications, technical advice, and trainings to a broad constituency of legal aid agencies, community groups, and pro bono attorneys.
A coalition of local immigrant and refugee organizations. Offers popular education tools for community organizers, including Project BRIDGE, Building a Race and Immigration Dialogue in the Global Economy, and a video, “Uprooted: Refugees of the Global Economy,” in English with Spanish subtitles.
• We are a diverse coalition of individuals, faith communities, human rights advocates, and grassroots organizers who have joined together to work for justice along the U.S.- Mexico border.
• We have mobilized in response to the escalating numbers of migrant deaths in the deserts of the American Southwest. Since 1998, over 2000 men, women, and children have lost their lives attempting to cross the border.
• We are a bi-national network of migrant-friendly organizations and individuals throughout the United States and northern Mexico that participate through symbolic and direct action.
• We offer a strategy to intervene and put a stop to migrant deaths in the Borderlands. Our actions are lawful and follow a protocol based on the principle of civil initiative (click to read).
• We embrace an action plan that includes movable desert camps, support of migrant aid centers, maintenance of water stations, Samaritan patrols that search the desert for migrants in need, and advocacy on behalf of migrant-related issues.
• We are a volunteer-driven movement that encourages people from all over the country to come to southern Arizona in summer 2004 to join the efforts to stop the loss of life in the desert.
• We are a non-profit organization in need of all kinds of support: financial, material, and spiritual.
