Dear America, You Are the Media, and You Are Allies
Immigrant Stories Matter. So Does Your Support.
Define American Founder and President Jose Antonio Vargas’ memoir, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, returns with updated material for living in Trump’s America. As we navigate another Trump tenure where anything goes, this updated edition of Dear America is more relevant than ever. In its new introduction, Jose reflects on the personal and national impacts of anti-immigration policies enacted under Trump’s first presidency, Project 2025, and what it means for undocumented Americans. This updated edition also includes a new epilogue where Jose delves into the seismic shift in public perception brought about by social media, with a call to action for every reader to “be a better media” and use their power to help change the narrative around immigrants.
The updated edition of Dear America is available wherever books are sold.
Toolkit
Immigrants Belong Toolkit
Immigrants Belong: The Toolkit is the culmination of two years of coalition-oriented work supported by Tides, which brought innovative research into real-world narrative change practice for immigration nonprofits. It outlines some of that research and provides step-by-step guides to help content production for storytellers implementing digital narrative change.
Guide
Telling Authentic Immigrant Stories
Telling Authentic Immigrant Stories: A Media Reference Guide educates content creators on best practices for telling specific, layered immigrant stories in the media they produce, helping immigrants be seen in their full humanity.
Report
‘Immigration Will Destroy Us’ and Other Talking Points
“Immigration Will Destroy Us” and Other Talking Points presents three years of research on anti-immigration narratives on YouTube, aiming to inspire coalition building and a more positive online narrative for immigrants.
Guide
Creativity is Boundless: An Inclusive Guide
Creativity is Boundless: An Inclusive Guide outlines practical steps artist support and grantmaking organizations can take to make opportunities accessible, regardless of citizenship or immigration status.
Guide
Immigration Reporting 101
Immigration Reporting 101 Reference Sheet is a quick and handy guide with key definitions and tips that serves as a reliable source for fact-checking to ensure accurate, fair, and nuanced reporting on immigrants.
Toolkit
A Toolkit for Immigration Reporting
Quoting Immigrants: A Media Toolkit for Anonymous Sources informs journalists on ethical guidelines and how to best quote sources anonymously across all media: print, digital, television, audio, and documentary journalism.
Be the media. Shape the narrative. Support immigrant storytelling today.
BE AN ALLY
If you want to get involved in other ways, below is a list of organizations across the country that support immigrants.
Please note: Define American has not vetted and does not endorse these organizations. They are listed here as a starting point, based on publicly available information.
National
African Communities Together
ACT is an organization of African immigrants fighting for civil rights, opportunity, and a better life for our families here in the U.S. and worldwide.
Alianza Nacional de Campesinas
Alianza Nacional de Campesinas organizes for health, safety, and justice in farmworker communities and beyond.
America’s Voice
The mission of AV and America’s Voice Education Fund (AVEF) is to build the public support and the political will needed to enact policy changes that secure freedom and opportunity for immigrants in America. Priority goal: Win reforms that put 11 million undocumented Americans on a path to full citizenship.
American Business Immigration Coalition
ABIC is active in key states and communities across the country, engaging activists, advocates, business leaders, and elected officials on the urgency of passing immigration reform that boosts our economy, creates jobs, eases the labor shortage, and supports families.
American Immigration Coalition
The Council strives to strengthen the United States by shaping immigration policies and practices through innovative programs, cutting-edge research, and strategic legal and advocacy efforts grounded in evidence, compassion, justice and fairness.
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
BAJI educates and engages African American and black immigrant communities to organize and advocate for racial, social and economic justice.
Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc.
CLINIC protects the legal rights of immigrant families and promotes their dignity in the Catholic tradition of welcoming the stranger.
Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc.
Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. supports Mexico-based migrant workers to defend and protect their rights as they move between their home communities in Mexico and their workplaces in the United States.
Communities United for Status and Protection
CUSP is a collaborative of grassroots immigrant community organizations working together to win permanent status for our members and communities, and build a more inclusive immigrant rights movement that centers the needs and experiences of African, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latinx, Arab/Middle Eastern, and API immigrants.
Familia TQLM
Familia: TQLM works at the local and national levels to achieve the collective liberation of trans, queer, and gender nonconforming Latinxs through building community, organizing, advocacy, and education.
FWD.us
FWD.us seeks to grow and galvanize political support to break through partisan gridlock to achieve meaningful immigration reform.
Golden Door Scholars
Golden Door Scholars provides DACAmented and undocumented students with the financial aid and support needed to invest in their education and define their futures.
Immigrant Legal Resource Center
The ILRC works with and educates immigrants, community organizations, and the legal sector to help build a democratic society that values diversity and the rights of all people.
Immigrants Rising
Immigrants Rising empowers undocumented people to achieve their educational and career goals through personal, institutional and policy transformation.
International Refugee Assistance Project
IRAP is a global legal aid and advocacy organization working to create a world where refugees and all people seeking safety are empowered to claim their right to freedom of movement and a path to lasting refuge.
Justice Action Center
JAC uses co-equal litigation and storytelling strategies to address unmet needs and build new frameworks to tangibly improve immigrants’ lives.
Justice in Motion
Justice in Motion builds partnerships across borders to ensure that wherever migrants go, their rights will follow.
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
MALDEF is the nation’s leading Latino legal civil rights organization, committed to protecting and defending the rights of all Latinos living in the United States and the constitutional rights of all Americans.
Migration Policy Institute
MPI is an independent, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to improve immigration and integration policies through authoritative research and analysis, opportunities for learning and dialogue, and the development of new ideas to address complex policy questions.
Mijente
Mijente a political home for Latinx and Chicanx people who seek racial, economic, gender and climate justice.
Muslim Advocates
Muslim Advocates works to promote justice and equity while protecting the diverse spectrum of Muslim communities from anti-Muslim discrimination in all of its forms.
My Undocumented Life
My Undocumented Life’s mission is to provide up-to-date information and resources to undocumented students, their families, and allies (including educators, counselors, and administrators). They post scholarship opportunities that are open to undocumented students, strategies for navigating the educational system while undocumented, information on how to apply for DACA, upcoming immigration-related events, news on immigration policies, and much more.
National Immigration Law Center
NILC is one of the leading advocacy organizations in the U.S. dedicated to advancing and defending the rights and opportunities of low-income immigrants and their loved ones.
National Korean American Service and Education Consortirum
NAKASEC’s mission is to organize Korean and Asian Americans and immigrants to achieve social, racial, and economic justice.
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
NNIRR works to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and refugees, regardless of immigration status.
National Partnership for New Americans
NPNA’s mission is to advance an immigrant equity and inclusion agenda at the state, local and federal level through policy, advocacy and service programs that create vast opportunities for immigrant and refugee communities to achieve full civic, social and economic justice.
National TPS Alliance
The National TPS Alliance is formed and led by TPS beneficiaries from across the United States, combining advocacy efforts at a national level to save Temporary Protected Status for all beneficiaries in the short term and to devise legislation that creates a path to permanent residency in the long term.
Pre-Health Dreamers
PHD promotes a culture of inclusion in higher education and healthcare by working with institutions to establish equitable holistic support and processes for undocumented communities.
Refugee Congress
Refugee Congress is a national nonpartisan organization built and led by refugees, asylum seekers, and other forcibly displaced people to promote the well-being and dignity of all forcibly displaced people.
Refugee Council USA
RCUSA mobilizes expertise, ideas, and influence to protect the rights of forcibly displaced people and build more welcoming societies.
Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
SEARAC fights to change outdated and unjust immigration laws that make Southeast Asian American families vulnerable to detention and deportation, pushes for gubernatorial clemencies so that community members may be protected from deportations and receive meaningful reentry support, and upholds civil rights in our incarceration and immigration systems.
Southeast Asian Freedom Network
SEAFN’s mission is to organize Southeast Asians (SEA) to end deportation while building social, political and economic power.
TheDream.US
TheDream.US is the nation’s largest college and career success program for undocumented immigrant youth.
U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
USCRI is a nongovernmental, not-for-profit international organization dedicated to addressing the needs and rights of refugees and immigrants.
UndocuProfessionals
UndocuProfessionals is a national community for and by the undocumented communities in all career fields.
UnidosUS
UnidosUS fights for an immigration system that values every person’s dignity and human rights.
United Stateless
United Stateless is a national organization led by stateless people whose mission is to build and inspire community among those affected by statelessness, and to advocate for their human rights.
United We Dream
As the largest immigrant youth-led network in the country, United We Dream members are leading the fight for the dignity and respect of all immigrants.
Alabama
Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice
ACIJ is a grassroots, statewide network of individuals and organizations that works to advance and defend the rights of immigrants in Alabama.
Alaska
Alaska Institute for Justice
AIJ’s mission is to promote and protect the human rights of all Alaskans including immigrants, refugees and Alaska Native communities.
Arizona
Aliento
Aliento serves undocumented, DACA, and mixed immigration status families to transform trauma into hope and action. They are youth-led and directly impacted people and allies who are invested in the well-being, emotional healing, and leadership development of those impacted by the inequities of lacking an immigration status.
Arizona Dream Act Coalition
ADAC is an immigrant youth-led organization focusing on the fight for higher education for immigrant youth and immigrant rights.
Borderlands Resource Initiative
BRI is steadfast in advocating for humane asylum policies and bolstering support for dignified reception of asylum seekers.
Florence Project/FIRRP
FIRRP is a lifeline to detained adults and children, providing pro bono legal and social services to ensure they do not face this battle on their own.
Trans Queer Pueblo
Trans Queer Pueblo is a base-building racial and gender justice organization that is collectively governed by a growing membership of 300+ trans and queer undocumented and documented migrants and people of color in Phoenix who organize to transform our city toward fellowship, family, community autonomy, self-determination and liberation.
Arkansas
Arkansas United
Arkansas United empowers Arkansas Immigrants through advocacy and service.
El Zócalo Immigrant Resource Center
El Zócalo Immigrant Resource Center’s mission is to promote a dignified life for immigrants in Arkansas.
California
California Immigrant Policy Center
CIPC advocates for policies that uphold the humanity of immigrants and refugees while advancing racial, social and economic justice.
Central American Resource Center
CARECEN SF empowers and responds to the needs, rights and aspirations of Latino, people who migrate and under-resourced families in the San Francisco Bay Area — building leadership to pursue self-determination and justice.
Chinese for Affirmative Action
CAA advocates for systemic change that protects immigrant rights, promotes language diversity, and remedies racial and social injustice.
Chispa
Chispa engages with excluded peoples to uproot systems of oppression, and cultivate systems grounded in community accountability, solidarity, and self-determination for our communities to thrive.
Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo
CIELO is a link, a resource, and a liaison for migrant Indigenous communities residing in Los Angeles.
El/La Para TransLatinas
El/La Para TransLatinas envisions a future in which the human rights to migration, housing, healthcare, food, and safety are respected and protected.
Haitian Bridge Alliance
HBA advocates for fair and humane immigration policies and provides migrants and immigrants with humanitarian, legal, and social services, with a particular focus on Black people, the Haitian community, women and girls, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and survivors of torture and other human rights abuses.
Immigrants Are Los Angeles
IRLA’s mission is integrating immigrants into the life of Los Angeles County by making them fully visible in its budget.
Inland Empire Immigrant Youth Collective
IEIYC creates a safe space for immigrant youth to express themselves and achieve their full potential and their identity that intersects with being undocumented.
Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project
Mixteco supports, organizes and empowers the indigenous migrant communities in California’s Central Coast.
Mujeres Unidas y Activas
MUA is an organization of Latina and Indigenous immigrant women with the mission of increasing our personal and communal power for social and economic justice.
National Center for Youth Law
NCYL works to ensure that immigrant children are able to live in communities rather than in government custody and have access to the resources and opportunities they need to heal and thrive.
National Day Labor Organizing Network
NDLON improves the lives of day laborers, migrants and low-wage workers.
Pangea Legal Services
Immigrants in deportation proceedings have avenues to lawful status, and Pangea advocates for them. Their cutting-edge, free or low cost, immigration legal services have a nearly 100% success rate, often setting legal precedent.
Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans
PANA is a research, public policy, and community organizing hub dedicated to advancing the full economic, social, and civic inclusion of refugees.
San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium
SDIRC brings together more than 50 diverse organizations across San Diego County that advocate for policies that advance the civil and human rights of immigrants and refugees.
The Campaign for College Opportunity
The Coalition was established with the goal of ensuring that the over 100,000 undocumented students enrolled in California’s public and independent colleges and universities are protected and supported by state policy and higher education systems.
The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
CHIRLA is one of the largest and most effective advocates for immigrant rights, organizing, educating and defending immigrants and refugees in the streets, in the courts, and in the halls of power.
The TransLatin@ Coalition
TLC is dedicated to securing critical resources for Trans, Gender Expansive, and Intersex (TGI) individuals and immigrant communities in Los Angeles.
Colorado
Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition
CIRC is a statewide membership-based coalition of immigrant, labor, interfaith, youth and ally organizations founded to build a unified statewide voice to improve the lives of immigrants and refugees in Colorado and the United States.
Movimiento Poder
Movimiento Poder is building a world where first-generation, migrante, women, and queer Latines can thrive, live with a sense of belonging, have enough abundance to keep each other safe, and build collective power to liberate themselves and their communities from all systems of oppression.
Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network
RMIAN provides free immigration legal and social services to immigrant children and to adults in immigration detention.
Connecticut
Connecticut Immigrant and Refugee Coalition
CIRC’s mission is to promote the rights and opportunities of immigrants and refugees in Connecticut, to foster their civic participation, and to facilitate their economic contributions.
Husky 4 Immigrants
The HUSKY 4 Immigrants Coalition is fighting to ensure all CT residents can access healthcare – no matter their immigration status or age.
Delaware
La Esperanza
La Esperanza assists Sussex County Latinos and immigrants on their journey to achieve stability, integration and success.
Florida
Americans for Immigrant Justice
AI Justice is a non-profit law firm that fights for justice for immigrants through a combination of direct representation, impact litigation, advocacy and outreach.
Family Action Network Movement
FANM advocates and organizes its members around issues of importance including affordable housing, comprehensive immigration reform, and climate gentrification and equity.
Florida Immigrant Coalition
FLIC is a hub for a bold, agile, and strategic social movement to protect Florida immigrants.
Hope CommUnity Center
Hope CommUnity Center is a service learning community dedicated to the empowerment of Central Florida’s immigrant and working poor communities through education, advocacy, and spiritual growth.
Georgia
Asian American Advocacy Fund
AAAF advocates for the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and Native Hawaiians in Georgia through a combination of policy advocacy at the local, state, and federal level to create a better Georgia for all.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta is the first and largest nonprofit legal advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the civil rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander (AANHPI) and Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (AMEMSA) communities in Georgia and the Southeast.
CASA
CASA provides critical services to immigrant and working-class families, and advocates for their rights.
Freedom University
Based in Atlanta, Freedom University is an award-winning human rights organization that provides rigorous college preparation classes, college and scholarship application assistance, and social movement leadership training for undocumented students banned from equal access to public higher education in Georgia.
Georgia Immigration Collaborative
GIC’s mission is to advance the rights of Georgia’s immigrants through communication, collaboration, and community partnerships.
Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights
GLAHR educates and organizes the Latino community in Georgia to defend and promote their civil and human rights.
Southeast Immigrant Rights Network
The mission of the SEIRN is to lift up the voice and the leadership of immigrant communities of the Southeast at the regional and national levels.
Women Watch Afrika
WWA is focused on the acculturation of immigrants and refugees (men and women) arriving to the United States from 23 African nations.
Hawaii
Hawai’i Coalition for Immigrant Rights
HCIR is a coalition of immigrants, immigrant-led and -serving organizations, and allies united in advocacy and education for equal justice and community inclusion for immigrants.
Idaho
Immigrant Hope
Immigrant Hope is dedicated to empowering under-resourced community members by offering expert immigration legal services to ensure individuals understand their options and receive comprehensive assistance with their immigration applications.
Illinois
Alianza Americas
Alianza Americas is a unique network of Latin American and Caribbean migrant-led organizations.
Alliance for Filipinos for Immigrants and Empowerment
AFIRE builds the capacity of Filipino/a/xs to organize on issues of social, racial, and economic justice that affect undocumented immigrants, domestic workers, seniors, and youth.
Arise Chicago
Arise Chicago organizes the collective power of working class immigrants in partnership with faith communities to uplift all workers.
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
ICIRR is dedicated to promoting the rights of immigrants and refugees to full and equal participation in the civic, cultural, social, and political life of our diverse society.
National Immigrant Justice Center
NIJC is dedicated to ensuring human rights protections and access to justice for all immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
National Korean American Service and Education Consortirum
NAKASEC’s mission is to organize Korean and Asian Americans and immigrants to achieve social, racial, and economic justice.
National Partnership for New Americans
NPNA’s mission is to advance an immigrant equity and inclusion agenda at the state, local and federal level through policy, advocacy and service programs that create vast opportunities for immigrant and refugee communities to achieve full civic, social and economic justice.
Organized Communities Against Deportations
OCAD is a group of undocumented, unapologetic, and unafraid organizers building a resistance movement against deportations and the criminalization of immigrants and people of color in Chicago and surrounding areas.
The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights
The Young Center is a champion for the rights and best interests of unaccompanied immigrant children, making sure that wherever they land, whether here in the U.S. or in their home country, they are safe.
We Are All America
We Are All America works to uphold and strengthen our nation’s commitment to welcome and protect those seeking freedom, safety and refuge in the United States.
Indiana
Coalition for Our Immigrant Neighbors
COIN is a coalition of service providers working together to facilitate and coordinate community efforts to provide legal, psychological and other services for immigrants in Central Indiana.
Haitian Center of Evansville
The Haitian Center of Evansville was founded to help the Haitian community in southwest Indiana thrive and grow.
National Immigrant Justice Center
NIJC is dedicated to ensuring human rights protections and access to justice for all immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
Tent Partnership for Refugees
Tent advises member companies on how they can build effective refugee hiring programs and integrate refugees into their workforces.
Iowa
Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice
Iowa MMJ’s mission is to build a movement for justice led by immigrants and refugees in Iowa by providing high-quality legal services and community empowerment through organizing.
Kansas
Advocates for Immigrant Rights and Reconciliation
AIRR recognizes and is working tirelessly to keep families together and end the humanitarian crisis our immigrant community is facing.
Sunflower Community Action
SCA aims to safeguard the rights of immigrants, providing essential resources and education that assist in navigating the complex landscape of immigration law.
Kentucky
Community Response Coalition of Kentucky
CRCKY offers wraparound care to immigrants in Kentucky as they work their way through the complex, non-intuitive, and bureaucratic US immigration system.
Ignite Peace’s Immigrant Dignity Coalition
The Immigrant Dignity Coalition’s purpose is to inform, connect, and mobilize the Southwest Ohio / Northern Kentucky community to defend and protect the dignity of the immigrant and refugee community by working in partnership with one another.
Louisiana
Louisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants
LORI assists refugees and immigrants in their various stages of integration in the community.
Maine
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project
ILAP helps low income immigrants improve their legal status and works for more just and humane laws and policies affecting immigrants.
Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition
MIRC’s mission is to improve legal, social, and economic conditions for immigrants in the state of Maine.
Maryland
Amica Center for Immigrant Rights
Amica Center fights for the rights, safety, and unity of immigrant communities, standing with those trapped in our nation’s fundamentally flawed immigration system.
CASA
CASA provides critical services to immigrant and working-class families, and advocates for their rights.
Episcopal Refugee and Immigrant Center Alliance
ERICA helps refugees, asylum seekers and other newcomers in Greater Baltimore rebuild their lives through one-on-one problem solving and emergency assistance.
Esperanza Center
The Esperanza Center is a comprehensive resource center whose mission is to welcome immigrants by offering hope, compassionate services, and the power to improve their lives.
Maryland Immigrant Rights Coalition
MIRC’s mission is to coordinate and maximize existing resources in order to increase the availability and quality of pro bono and low-cost legal representation to low-income immigrants; to educate the community on immigration matters; and to advocate on behalf of Maryland immigrants.
Massachusetts
Asian American Resource Workshop
AARW is a political home for pan-Asian communities in Greater Boston committed to building grassroots power through political education, creative expression, and issue-based and neighborhood organizing.
Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network
BIJAN is a community network of individuals, faith communities, and other activist groups working to reduce the escalating harm of our immigration system in the current political context.
Justice at Work
Immigrants and other workers in low-paying jobs are routinely injured, denied paychecks, sexually harassed by supervisors, and threatened with termination — or deportation — when they speak up. Justice at Work’s mission is to support them in exercising collective power.
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights
The Lawyers’ Committee uses legal advocacy to achieve racial justice, fighting inside and outside the courts to ensure that Black people and other people of color have the voice, opportunity, and power to make the promises of our democracy real.
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition
MIRA Coalition’s mission is to convene, serve, and organize together with our members, community leaders, and allies for the advancement of all immigrants across the Commonwealth and beyond.
Matahari Women Workers’ Center
Matahari works to end the exploitation of women and femme workers through labor organizing of domestic workers (and restaurant workers since 2021).
Mujeres Victoriosas
Mujeres Victoriosas’ goal is to empower women and mothers as leaders in the immigrant community, transforming and transcending to younger generations, sending clear messages of resilience and resistance to children, especially girls.
Pioneer Valley Workers Center
PVWC builds power with low-wage immigrant workers throughout Western Massachusetts.
Michigan
African Bureau for Immigration and Social Affairs
ABISA works to build stronger communities where blvck immigrants can thrive.
Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services
ACCESS strives to enable and empower Arab American individuals, families and communities to lead informed, productive and culturally sensitive lives.
Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation
DHDC’s vision is a community that is thriving, culturally vibrant, and safe where everyone has quality opportunities for self-determination, education and personal wealth.
Farmworker Legal Services
FLS is a statewide legal resource center committed to ensuring Michigan’s farmworkers have equal access to justice and provides extensive outreach, direct representation, and community engagement.
Michigan Immigrant Rights Center
MIRC is a legal resource center for Michigan’s immigrant communities.
Michigan United
Michigan United is a broad, statewide coalition working to reform our broken immigration system, protect our environment, and end mass incarceration.
Minnesota
Minnesota Interfaith Coalition on Immigration
ICOM engages in courageous spiritual, multicultural action in solidarity with immigrants and refugees to achieve justice and stand up to systems of oppression.
MN8
MN8 fights to end detention and deportation in Southeast Asian communities.
Unidos MN
Born from the strength of the DREAMer movement, Unidos MN builds power with Minnesota’s working families to advance social, racial, and economic justice for all, placing immigration, education, and climate justice at the heart of our work.
Mississippi
Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance
MIRA uses advocacy, education, organizing and legal services to expand and protect the rights of immigrants and their families in Mississippi.
Missouri
Migrant and Immigrant Community Action Project
The MICA Project utilizes a combination of community outreach and legal services to promote the voice and dignity of immigrant communities.
Montana
Soft Landing Missoula
Soft Landing Missoula is committed to working with refugee and immigrant families as they build new lives in Missoula.
Nebraska
Center for Immigrant and Refugee Advancement
CIRA empowers immigrants and refugees to live confidently through high-quality legal representation, resettlement, and social work and to create welcoming communities through education and advocacy.
Nevada
Nevada Immigrant Coalition
NIC ensures immigrant, refugee, and new American voices are heard at the local, state, and federal levels to advocate for humane and fair immigration policies.
New Hampshire
New Hampshire Alliance of Immigrants and Refugees
NHAIR is dedicated to organizing and engaging immigrants and refugees as voters and leaders.
Welcoming New Hampshire
Through education and cultural activities that both engage non-immigrant audiences and create space for immigrants to make their voices heard, Welcoming New Hampshire strives to build an understanding of the impact and contributions of immigrants that will lead to stronger and more inclusive communities and fight back against the anti-immigrant sentiment that has divided so many.
New Jersey
ImmSchools
ImmSchools supports teachers and school leaders in cultivating a positive school culture and climate for all students, parents, and caregivers, regardless of immigration status.
New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice
NJAIJ fights for policies that empower and protect immigrants. NJAIJ is the largest immigration coalition in the state, comprised of groups that span labor, faith, policy, community-based, and grassroots organizations.
New Jersey Consortium for Immigrant Children
NJCIC is a state-wide legal services and policy advocacy organization dedicated to empowering young immigrants. They provide holistic, youth-centered legal representation, drive systemic change to advance immigrant rights, and build community through collaboration and education.
New Mexico
El Centro
El Centro is a grassroots, Latino immigrant-led organization based in Central New Mexico that works with Latino immigrant communities and allies to defend, strengthen, and advance the rights of our community.
NM Comunidades en Acción y de Fé
NM CAFé is a network of diverse religious institutions and community broad-based organizations across Southern New Mexico committed to building relational power with and for New Mexicans who have been directly impacted injustice.
New Mexico Immigrant Law Center
NMILC provides free legal assistance and resources for immigrants in New Mexico.
New York
Adhikaar
Adhikaar is a women-led community and workers’ center that provides direct services to the Nepali-speaking community and organizes low-income workers and impacted community members to promote social justice and human rights.
AfroResistance
AfroResistance’s mission is to educate and organize for human rights, democracy and racial justice throughout the Americas.
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
By combining litigation, advocacy, education, and organizing, AALDEF works with Asian American communities across the country to secure human rights for all.
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project
ASAP is the largest collective of asylum seekers in the United States. ASAP supports members for the long haul as they navigate the U.S. asylum system.
Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence
CAAAV organizes working class Asian immigrants in Chinatown and Astoria to make an intervention in the gentrification of our neighborhoods and New York City.
CUNY Initiative on Immigration and Education
CUNY-IEE creates opportunities for educational stakeholders to learn from immigrant students, families, and educators directly impacted by restrictive immigration policies and educational inequality.
Damayan Migrant Workers
Damayan is a grassroots organization that serves and empowers low-wage Filipino migrant workers living and working in New York City and New Jersey, especially domestic workers and labor trafficking survivors or modern day slaves.
Families for Freedom
Families for Freedom is a New York-based multi-ethnic human rights organization by and for families facing deportation.
ImmSchools
ImmSchools supports teachers and school leaders in cultivating a positive school culture and climate for all students, parents, and caregivers, regardless of immigration status.
Make the Road New York
Make the Road New York is a second home to tens of thousands of immigrant and working class people of color.
Mekong NYC
Mekong NYC is a social justice organization that brings dignity and value to the lives of Southeast Asians in the Bronx and throughout New York City.
UnLocal
UnLocal aims to address the fundamental injustices and structural inequities that disproportionately impact immigrant communities.
Worker Justice Center of New York
WJCNY pursues justice for those denied human rights with a focus on agricultural and other low wage workers, through legal representation, community empowerment, and advocacy for institutional change.
Workers’ Center of Central New York
Through community organizing, leadership development, education and policy advocacy, WCCNY empowers low-wage workers to combat workplace abuses and improve wages and working conditions throughout the community.
North Carolina
The Center for New North Carolinians
CNNC promotes access and integration for immigrants and refugees in North Carolina by bridging newcomer populations with existing communities through direct service provision, research, and training.
The North Carolina African Services Coalition
NCASC is dedicated to supporting refugees, asylees, and victims of human trafficking who resettle in Greensboro, NC.
North Dakota
Communities Acting Together for Change and Hope
CATCH aims to revitalize rural North Dakota by promoting legal immigration through private sponsorships, and attracting foreign-born families as permanent residents to stimulate economic growth.
Ohio
Haitian Community Help and Support Center
The Haitian Support Center’s goal is to help refugees and immigrants in Clark County experience a sense of belonging.
Justice for Migrant Women
Justice for Migrant Women champions migrant and rural women’s right to live and work with dignity, and without fear of sexual violence.
Ignite Peace’s Immigrant Dignity Coalition
The Immigrant Dignity Coalition’s purpose is to inform, connect, and mobilize the Southwest Ohio / Northern Kentucky community to defend and protect the dignity of the immigrant and refugee community by working in partnership with one another.
Miami Valley Immigration Coalition
As a coalition of faith communities and other organizations and individuals committed to immigrant justice, the Miami Valley Immigration Coalition is committed to promoting comprehensive, humane immigration reform and radical systemic change by working with and on behalf of those who are affected by unjust immigration laws, policies and practices.
Ohio Immigrant Alliance
Ohio Immigrant Alliance is a group of Ohio immigrants and citizens working together to protect the dignity and rights of all individuals who choose to make Ohio their home–regardless of race, religion, gender expression, age, ability, and citizenship status.
Oklahoma
Dream Action Oklahoma
DAOK is a community-based organization that aims to empower our local immigrant community through advocacy and education to ensure justice for all immigrants.
Oregon
Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization
IRCO’s mission is to welcome, serve, and empower refugees, immigrants, and people across cultures and generations to reach their full potential.
Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste
PCUN is focused on building a stronger voice for all Latinx working families in Oregon, from farmworkers to young folks, so that we can collectively improve their well-being and increase prosperity for all.
Pennsylvania
American Friends Service Committee
AFSC works to address the economic and political drivers of migration. AFSC also support migrants, refugees, and internally displaced people at each stage of their journey; offers legal services, training, human rights monitoring, and humanitarian relief; and supports immigrant-led organizing and advocacy.
CASA
CASA provides critical services to immigrant and working-class families, and advocates for their rights.
ImmSchools
ImmSchools supports teachers and school leaders in cultivating a positive school culture and climate for all students, parents, and caregivers, regardless of immigration status.
Pennsylvania Immigration Coalition
PIC’s mission is to advance immigrants’ rights and promote immigrants’ full integration into society by advocating with a unified voice for greater public understanding and welcoming public policies throughout Pennsylvania.
Project Libertad
Project Libertad empowers newcomer immigrant youth and their families by providing essential, youth-led, and youth-centered legal and social services.
Rhode Island
Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island
DIIRI offers adult education, language learning, job training, citizenship and immigration legal services, refugee resettlement, translation and interpreting, clothing and household needs, and more.
Higher Ground International
Higher Ground International is dedicated to advocating for, empowering, and providing life-changing services to Liberians and West African immigrants, refugees, and other marginalized communities.
Progreso Latino
Progreso Latino’s mission is to help Rhode Island’s Latino and immigrant communities to achieve greater self-sufficiency and socio-economic progress by providing transformational programs that support personal growth and social change.
Providence Youth Student Movement
PrYSM mobilizes queer Southeast Asian youth, families, and allies to build grassroots power and organize collectively for social justice.
The Immigrant Coalition of Rhode Island
ICRI is an association of 33 organizations committed to ensuring fair and equal treatment of our immigrant neighbors.
South Carolina
Carolina Immigrant Alliance
Carolina Immigrant Alliance’s mission is to work for the mutual inclusion of all people through immigration legal assistance, public policy advocacy, education initiatives, and relationship building.
South Dakota
South Dakota Voices for Justice
South Dakota Voices for Peace builds power and enables healing in immigrant, refugee, and Muslim communities by amplifying their voices and working in solidarity with all who dismantle bigotry and racism.
Tennessee
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition
TIRRC is a statewide, immigrant and refugee-led collaboration whose mission is to build power, amplify our voices, and organize communities to advocate for our rights.
Texas
A Resource in Serving Equality Moving Forward
ARISE Adelante empowers residents living in low income communities in South Texas to attain a better life for themselves, their families and their community.
American Gateways
To champion the dignity and human rights of immigrants, refugees and survivors of persecution, torture, conflict and human trafficking through exceptional immigration legal services at no or low cost, education and advocacy.
Border Network for Human Rights
BNHR fights for justice, dignity, and social change at our southern border.
Houston Leads
Houston Leads is a diverse, non-partisan coalition of immigrant organizations committed to enhancing the protection, safety, dignity, inclusion and freedom of all immigrants living in the Houston area.
ImmSchools
ImmSchools supports teachers and school leaders in cultivating a positive school culture and climate for all students, parents, and caregivers, regardless of immigration status.
La Unión del Pueblo Entero
LUPE is a multi-issue community organizing and services organization deeply rooted in the Rio Grande Valley working on health care access, education, and colonia rights, immigration, workers’ rights, and voter engagement.
Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services
RAICES defends the rights of immigrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking people and families; empowers communities; and advocates for liberty and justice.
Texas Civil Rights Project
TCRP envisions a border state that respects the human dignity and rights of migrants and border residents. TCRP aims to eliminate policies that perpetuate the harmful effects of militarization, cultural erasure, imprisonment, and exclusion.
The Immigration Coalition
The Immigration Coalition provides clean drinking water, food, and essential items to immigrants, migrants, and asylum-seekers along the U.S.-Mexico border.
TRUST Coalition
Founded by MALDEF, the Texas Association of Business, and the ACLU of Texas, TRUST is a coalition of business, religious, and advocacy organizations that advocates for policies that value immigrant Texans as neighbors who are vital, productive members of our community.
Workers Defense Project
Workers Defense organizes Latine immigrant workers in Texas to fight for dignity and respect.
Utah
Comunidades Unidas
CU fights to build the social and political power of people who identify as Latinx immigrants (including undocumented folks) living in Utah.
Utah Immigration Advocacy Coalition
UIAC works to ensure that Utah remains a welcoming and supportive place for all immigrants regardless of status, including mixed-status families, DACA recipients, immigrant children, and young adults.
Vermont
Migrant Justice
Migrant Justice builds the voice, capacity, and power of the immigrant farmworker community to organize for economic justice and human rights.
Vermont Asylum Assistance Project
VAAP is a legal services and technical assistance provider that exists to raise Vermont noncitizens’ awareness of and access to critical immigration legal help and support.
Virginia
CASA
CASA provides critical services to immigrant and working-class families, and advocates for their rights.
Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights
VACIR is a multi-racial and multi-ethnic coalition of organizations that exists to win dignity, power and quality of life for all immigrant and refugee communities.
Washington
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
NWIRP promotes justice by defending and advancing the rights of immigrants through direct legal services, systemic advocacy, and community education.
OneAmerica
OneAmerica organizes immigrant and refugee leaders and our allies to build power in our communities and run campaigns to create a just immigration system, inclusive education for all, and a truly representative democracy.
Walla Walla Immigrant Rights Coalition
WWIRC connects our community members with culturally appropriate resources such as legal counsel, health services, food aid, and state programs that can offer them support regardless of their immigration status.
Washington Dream Coalition
Washington Dream Coalition is a network of undocumented and formerly undocumented professionals addressing inequities and obstacles faced by undocumented immigrants in WA State.
Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network
WAISN is the largest immigrant justice network in Washington that convenes and cultivates a statewide transnational solidarity coalition to protect and advance the power and rights of all immigrant and refugee communities.
Washington, D.C.
Acacia Center for Justice
Acacia Center for Justice seeks to deliver and advocate for meaningful and effective access to justice and freedom for immigrants at risk of detention or deportation.
Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center
The mission of the APALRC is to advance the civil and legal rights of Asian Americans by focusing on providing linguistically accessible and culturally appropriate legal services to low-income Asian immigrants in the Metro-DC area, including those with limited English proficiency.
Ayuda
Ayuda provides legal, social, and language services to help low-income immigrants in our neighborhoods access justice and transform their lives.
National Immigrant Justice Center
NIJC is dedicated to ensuring human rights protections and access to justice for all immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
Tahirih Justice Center
The Tahirih Justice Center is a national, nonprofit organization that serves women, girls, and all immigrant survivors of gender-based violence.
The Washington Lawyers Committee
WLC works alongside local immigrant communities in response to an array of legal problems, seeking to protect the civil rights of all families.
Wisconsin
Voces de la Frontera
Voces de la Frontera is a membership-based community organization led by low-wage workers, immigrants and youth whose mission is to protect and expand civil rights and workers’ rights through leadership development, community organizing and empowerment.
Wyoming
Immigrant Hope
Immigrant Hope is dedicated to empowering under-resourced community members by offering expert immigration legal services to ensure individuals understand their options and receive comprehensive assistance with their immigration applications.
Wyoming Immigrant Advocacy Project
WIAP provides accessible legal advice and representation, serves as a community resource for accurate immigration information, and advocates for the immigrant community.