| The Immigrant Rights Organizing Program (IROP)
strengthens the voice of Central Valley immigrants in
shaping the policies that have a dramatic effect on
their families and communities. IROP develops grassroots
leadership and organizing skills of immigrants themselves
in collaborative efforts to:
•
Promote values, laws, and policies that keep families
together and reward hard-working, tax-paying
immigrant families
•
Involve Valley youth in educational and organizing campaigns
that promote higher educational opportunities and a
secure future for immigrant youth
• Promote
public safety of motorists and pedestrians
by changing policies that prevent undocumented immigrants
from obtaining driver’s licenses
•
Educate immigrant and migrant communities about
their rights and responsibilities
Today IROP celebrates:
• A successful
campaign to prevent the separation of families through
outreach and education around statute 245(i) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act
• A successful
public outreach campaign to increase opportunities for
higher education for immigrant students, resulting in
the enactment of AB540, which makes in-state tuition
rates for California’s public colleges available
to all resident students, irrespective of documentation
status
• Increased
participation and voice of former "bracero” farmworkers
in an effort to obtain compensation for their work that
was not paid to them during the 1942-1964 guest worker
program
QUOTE: "Collaboration with leaders and organizers has
deepened our understanding that immigration law can
be changed by immigrants organizing themselves."—Mark
Silverman, staff attorney, Immigrant Legal Resource
Center
For more information
Contact Mark Silverman at msilverman@ilrc.org
or at (415) 255-9499, x.627.
Join us in supporting the vision.
If you are interested in becoming a funding partner,
contact Mark Miller at mark@larkspring.com
or at (916) 638-1733.
A project of the Central Valley Partnership for
Citizenship—engaging immigrants, migrants, and
refugees in the civic life of California’s Central
Valley |
