History

Celebrating 25 Years of Immigrant Rights Advocacy

The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights was established in 1986, bringing together grassroots community, religious, labor, civil rights and legal organizations to help build a social movement in support of the rights of immigrants and refugees. These activists and organizations, led by diverse, immigrant community-based leaders and institutions, had coalesced over a three to four year period as they organized against restrictive immigration policy proposals and practices. Today, NNIRR includes more than 250 different organizations and activists with a shared goal of promoting migrant rights in the U.S. and around the globe.

Click here to read about our 25th anniversary.

Read NNIRR's first 25 years: A chronology of activities, issues and struggle for the human rights of all migrants, appearing in NNIRR's 25th anniversary commemorative program book.