Immigrants Rights

The number of immigrants in the United States range from 28.4 to 31.1 million and has been growing rapidly in recent decades. Since 1970 the number of immigrants in the United States has almost doubled. The AFSC points to three main reasons why people leave their home countries: To flee violence, war, or political persecution, to seek economic security or survival, or to join family members. The AFSC provides literature on Building Alliances and Movements for immigrants. Immigrant communities are involved in many different types of organizing such as issues that result directly from immigration status, campaigns for bilingual education, and the border legalization movement. Other movements involve the way immigrants are treated such as protesting against police brutality, dealing with inter-ethnic conflict, and protesting against hate violence. Immigrants as well as non immigrants work together to campaign for worker's rights, affordable housing, and welfare rights.[[1]] The AFSC believes that alliance building is an important step in building rights for immigrants. Some alliances focus on broadening support for immigrants rights and others support immigrants and nonimmigrant joining together to tackle issues.