The Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CCIR), also known as CCIR/NAOC or New American Opportunity Campaign (NAOC) is a non-profit immigrant rights advocacy organization based in

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, established in 2003 to pass comprehensive

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. It was instrumental in the 2004 Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, modeled after the

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of the

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and acts as an umbrella organization for a number of national and local immigrant rights organizations for advocacy and coalition building. The New American Opportunity Campaign was a campaign launched by CCIR in 2004. Soon, the campaign became the core project of the coalition and NAOC became a better known name than CCIR. CCIR consolidated its identity into the single "Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform" name in 2007.

Board of directors

* Deepak Bhargava,

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, National Council of La Raza *

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, America's Voice * Chung-Wha Hong,

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External links

Official Website

Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride 2004

Atlantic Philanthropies
{{DEFAULTSORT:Coalition For Comprehensive Immigration Reform Organizations established in 2003 Non-profit organizations based in Washington, D.C. Civic and political organizations of the United States Immigration political advocacy groups in the United States