We Are America Alliance

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A series of articles on The U.S. Immigration Debate

Issues Illegal immigration Trafficking in human beings Labor shortage Terrorism U.S-Mexico Border NAFTA Visa caps

Proposed solutions DREAM Act Guest worker program H.R. 4437 (December 2005) S. 2611 (May 2006) Immigration reduction Free migration Legalization Jackson Lee (2005) McCain-Kennedy (2005) SKILL(2006) REAL ID(2005) Border Fence(2006)

Action 2006 protests

Organizations CCIR, NIF, FIRM, WAAA NCLR, LULAC FAIR, Minuteman Project, MCDC Cal. CIR, SOS CIS, NumbersUSA

Past laws Naturalization Act (1795) 14th Amendment (1868) Chinese Exclusion (1882) Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 Asian Exclusion (1924) Bracero Program (1942-64) INS Act(1965) IRCA(1986) IIRIRA (1996)

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The We Are Americe Alliance (WAAA) is a national alliance of immigrant rights organizations and allies in the United States that work towards social justice, including comprehensive immigration reform and immigrants' civic participation. The alliance was borne out of broad collaboration around the 2006 immigration reform protests, which mobilized more than 2 million people nationwide during spring, as well as an civic participation campaign during the 2006 elections.

[edit] Convening Organizations

• Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)
• Center for Community Change
• Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR)
• Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy (MIRA) Coalition
• National Association for Latin American and Caribbean Communities] (NALACC)
• National Capitol Immigration Coalition (NCIC)
• National Day Laborers Organizing Network
• National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC)
• New American Opportunity Campaign (NAOC)/Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CCIR)
• New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC)
• Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United) (Woodburn, OR)
• Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
• UNITE HERE!

[edit] External Links

• Official Website