Immigrant Justice & Rights

For years, NNIRR has been at the forefront of efforts to transform U.S. immigration policies and practices toward a more just and humane treatment of our communities. But rather than uphold our rights, the U.S. government has continued to expand its immigration policing programs, from the brutal militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border to immigration policing wherever our communities live, work, worship, study and play.

NNIRR's Immigrant Justice & Rights Program is breaking the silence on the devastating humanitarian crisis inflicted upon diverse immigrant communities “from the womb to the workplace," as a result of misguided U.S. immigration policies and laws. Together with our members, partners and allies, we work to develop and promote grassroots human rights policy advocacy, education and organizing for socially just immigration reforms and policies. Currently, we are ramping up efforts to raise awareness, expose abuses and organize with our communities to roll back the expansion of immigration policing and collaboration with local law enforcement agencies resulting in record numbers of detentions and deportations.

Our current initiatives include:

• HURRICANE: The Human Rights Immigrant Community Action Network is our abuse documentation initiative, which brings communities together to track, monitor, and document stories of human rights abuses as part of a community organizing strategy to get the changes we want. HURRICANE offers practical tools for communities to participate in abuse documentation and story-collection to help build community leadership, strengthen capacity, and build grassroots power. Read more about HURRICANE here.

• 100 Stories Project: Join hundreds of community members around the country who are reporting abuses and sharing their stories. The 100 Stories Project is the heart of the HURRICANE initiative. The 100 Stories Project offers community members, families, organizers, advocates and allies a way to tell their stories, gather community testimonies and report human rights abuses to demand redress and justice. Interview a community member, neighbor, co-worker about how immigration policing has impacted them.| Entreviste a un miembro de su comunidad, vecin@, colega acerca de como ha sido impactado por la politica de inmigracion.
  

• Campaign for Immigrant Justice: NNIRR is preparing to launch a two-year campaign that focuses on shifting the narrative and challenging the story on immigration in order to build up support for a generous, fair and humane legalization program while challenging detentions and deportations as the primary strategy of the U.S. government.

New report on detention! NNIRR, with the Advocates for Human Rights and the Rights Working Group submitted a report to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, outlining key concerns and issues for detained migrants in the U.S. Read the report here.

RESOURCES

• NNIRR has compiled a reading and resource list of various reports and useful articles on pressing issues for our movement and our communities. Check it out here.