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 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 Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, 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 (NAOC) 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 Immigraiton Reform" name in 2007.

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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