To successfully challenge and change existing socioeconomic and political structures and systems of power, our communities must work together in solidarity and collaboration with each other. By forming coalitions, organizations with shared goals can work together to better advocate for changes our communities want and need. NAKASEC is a proud convener and member of a number of coalitions that advocate for immigrant, racial, economic, and social justice.
Coalitions
Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM)
The Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) is led by its member organizations and brings leaders together across lines of race, issues and geography to multiply power. FIRM is dedicated to organizing and building grassroots power and leadership. NAKASEC serves on FIRM’s Executive Committee.
National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA)
Founded in 1996, NCAPA is a coalition of 34 national Asian Pacific American organizations around the country. Based in Washington D.C., NCAPA serves to represent the interests of the greater Asian American (AA) and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (NHPI) communities and to provide a national voice for AA and NHPI issues. NAKASEC is a member of the NCAPAExecutive Committee and Immigration Sub-committee.
Value Our Families Coalition
On June 14, 2018, NAKASEC, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAAJ) and Church World Service (CWS) launched the Value Our Families (VOF) Coalition. Now with a 12-member Steering Committee, VOF’s mission is to preserve, protect, and strengthen the family-based immigration system.
#DefundHate Campaign
NAKASEC is a member of the #DefundHate Campaign which calls on the federal government to divest our taxpayer dollars from immigration enforcement such as Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and invest in what communities really need, like education and health care.
The Alliance for Adoptee Citizenship
The Alliance for Adoptee Citizenship (AAC) is a coalition of organizations dedicated to passage of the 2024 Adoptee Citizenship Act in the 118th Congress (H.R. 8617 & S.4448). AAC is made up of a diverse group of adoptees, adoptive families, grassroots organizing and advocacy groups, and allies—all of whom are working together to amend a technical oversight in the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 that has resulted in the exclusion of thousands of intercountry adoptees from rightfully receiving automatic citizenship as legally adopted children of U.S. citizen parents.
Home is Here
The Home Is Here Coalition is fighting to protect DACA recipients and all immigrant communities. DACA recipients are undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. They are also our nurses, our teachers, our coworkers, our family members, and our friends — and their home is here.
Immigrant Movement Visioning Process:
The Immigrant Movement Visioning Process is a powerful group of around 50 leaders who met over a fourteen-month planning process aimed at building trust and strengthening relationships, dreaming together, committing to coordinating with a diverse spectrum of allies to collectively shape a long term vision for the immigrants’ rights movement, and beginning to develop a shared analysis of what is needed in the short-, medium-, and long-term to shift power at local, state, and federal levels to achieve this vision.
