| |  | Solidarity, Hope, and Human Rights in a World of Multiple Crises Dear John, We want to express our gratitude for your unwavering support for the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Your support and contributions are helping us build solidarity, leadership, and the collective power of grassroots communities who need to confront deep-rooted systems of injustice at the U.S./Mexico border. We are at a pivotal time for human rights. In this deeply painful era of war and conflict, it is our duty to push back against dehumanization and the normalization of violence in every militarized society, war zone, refugee camp, and borderline. At NNIRR, we are moving forward with intention. This year, we expanded our capacity to anchor human rights organizing and movement building along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. This region has been “ground zero” for anti-immigrant policies and an epicenter of racial injustice. Hundreds of migrants perish or go missing each year in this region and families are unable to know their whereabouts or recover their remains. It is under these conditions that NNIRR focused on two key issues that are largely invisible from immigration conversations: addressing the tragedy of missing and deceased migrants and building grassroots capacity at the border to address the crisis of human rights. |
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| Through a series of strategic alliances with organizations on the ground, we launched the BRIDGE Institutes for Human Rights Leadership. The Institutes offered an opportunity for new leaders and established practitioners from thirteen cities along the Texas border to gain a solid grounding on the theory and practice of human rights as well as the skills to anchor human rights organizing in their communities. Under the escalating attacks of the far-right and the devastating impact on the lives of people of color; human rights are valuable tools to build cross-sectoral solidarity between immigrant and non-immigrant communities, between those working on labor, migrant, climate, environmental, and electoral justice. |
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| | Human rights are a meeting point, where communities of different backgrounds come together to push back against racist projects such as Texas' Operation Lone Star, the harmful and criminalizing SB 4, which allows for state-sanctioned racism against people of color, and to monitor access to other rights such as housing, education, or healthcare. We recognize the growing power and normalization of white nationalism that has taken control of local, state, and national agendas. In a state like Texas, where Latinos are the majority, far-right forces are working to demobilize civic and electoral engagement by infusing funding in local elections |
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| and establishing anti-immigrant narratives and policy priorities that undermine human rights, migrant rights, and working-class agendas. As one of the epicenters for racial policing and anti-immigrant enforcement, Texas' regressive policies become a model for anti-immigrant efforts in other states and for the national conversation in an important electoral year. This reality prompts us to focus on leadership development, movement building, and sustained engagement that requires ecosystem coordination between social and electoral justice networks, as well as progressive philanthropic investments in long-term transformative and mobilizing efforts. Going Forward: In 2024 we will be strengthening, and solidifying our organizing in cities along Texas and expanding to other regions of the border. To accomplish this, please consider making or increasing your final financial contribution to NNIRR for 2023. With your support and the support of partner organizations, we will be able to advance the following priorities: ● Support grassroots organizing on the ground to expand rights-based organizing along the Texas border region. ● Expand movement-building work in other states, including New Mexico, Arizona, and California. ● Build the synergies between migrant rights, social justice organizing, and electoral work. ● Center grassroots voices and human rights protections in migration policy discussions in regional, national, and global advocacy spaces. ● Address the growing crisis of migrant deaths by engaging in national and transnational advocacy efforts. This is a pivotal time for NNIRR. We ask you to stand by us. Please donate today to support vital organizing and advocacy in the upcoming year. In Solidarity, Alma Maquitico, Executive Director & the NNIRR Board of Directors |
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| Every contribution makes a difference. We are deeply grateful for your solidarity and partnership. |
| | Your contributions support NNIRR to: - advocate for immigration policy that centers human rights
- lift up grassroots leadership, organizing and advocacy
- spotlight human rights organizing at the US-Mexico border
- advocate for international migrant rights & human rights at borders
- organize at the intersections, including climate justice and migrant rights
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