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Thank you for supporting NNIRR’s work in 2024!

Dear John,

For the past three years, the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) has focused its efforts on advancing the BRIDGE Institutes for Human Rights—a political education initiative aimed at empowering grassroots leadership, fostering political education, and building collective power.

These efforts have laid the foundation for strengthening grassroots groups and leadership to address critical human rights issues within their communities. Today, we are mobilizing this growing network to confront two urgent challenges: addressing entrenched human rights violations and preparing for the impending mass deportation regime.

Although the future seems daunting, we draw strength from our past experience in confronting the interconnected systems of military, local law enforcement, and immigration enforcement that have inflicted profound harm, particularly through initiatives like Operation Lone Star.

Today, NNIRR is mobilizing this expanding network of grassroots, women-led organizations to foster collaboration and collective action. Our goal is to equip ourselves as women organizers with a clear analysis, vision, and agenda, while developing strategies to resist the mass deportation regime and support our communities—especially those most vulnerable to deportation, violence, and abuse.

As we brace for the challenges ahead, we also celebrate the incredible strides we’ve made together this year:

• Developing innovative “train the trainer” materials to empower human rights and immigrant rights defenders, equipping them with the tools and knowledge to adapt and resist as threats to immigrant communities grow. 
• Building a network of women leaders who are driving an intersectional human rights agenda for the borderlands, that spans health, labor, environmental, and climate justice. Together, we’re ensuring a bottom-up approach in the fight for justice.
• Mobilizing against state-level anti-immigrant initiatives and challenging federal setbacks on migrant rights, from fighting  policies like Operation Lone Star to fighting rollbacks on asylum protections.
• Defending human rights at the the US-Mexico border, collaborating with local communities to submit a grassroots report to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, highlighting the lethal consequences of current border policies.

Thank you for supporting NNIRR’s work. Wishing you and your loved ones a joyful and peaceful holiday season.

In Solidarity,

NNIRR team & the Board of Directors

Support NNIRR!

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 of gender, climate justice, and migrant rights