National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights

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.