Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
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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, established in 2003 to pass comprehensive immigration reform. It was instrumental in the 2004 , modeled after the Freedom Rides of the Civil Rights Movement 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, Center for Community Change
- Cecilia Muñoz, National Council of La Raza
- Frank Sharry, America's Voice
- ,
- Eliseo Medina, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
- Tom Snyder, UNITE HERE
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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