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
Washington, DC
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and Federal district of the United States, federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River, across from ...
, established in 2003 to pass comprehensive
immigration reform. It was instrumental in the 2004
Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, modeled after the
Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions '' Morgan v. Virginia' ...
of the
Civil Rights Movement, and acts as an umbrella organization for several national and local immigrant rights organizations for advocacy and coalition building.
The New American Opportunity Campaign was 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
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Deepak Bhargava,
Center for Community Change
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Cecilia Muñoz,
National Council of La Raza
UnidosUS, formerly National Council of La Raza (NCLR) ( La Raza), is the United States's largest Latino nonprofit advocacy organization. It advocates in favor of progressive public policy changes including immigration reform, a path to citize ...
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Frank Sharry, America's Voice
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Chung-Wha Hong,
New York Immigration Coalition
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Eliseo Medina,
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
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Tom Snyder
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External links
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Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride 2004Atlantic Philanthropies
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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