The National Immigration Forum’s vision for the future is a 21st century is to ensure America can thrive by advocating for policy change that helps new Americans gain the opportunities, skills and status they need to realize their full potential. Our work is centered around four overarching priority concerns: Immigration Reform & Workforce Needs Integration & Citizenship Borders & Interior Enforcement State and Local Immigration Developments

We believe critical constituencies communicating effective messages advance strategic administrative and legislative advocacy efforts. We bring together moderate and conservative faith, law enforcement and business leaders to weigh in with media and policy makers in support of practical and commonsense immigration, citizenship and integration policies. In particular, we utilize our unique Bibles, Badges and Business campaign and our innovative New American Workforce business engagement program to explain policy issues in a creative way; to execute digital and traditional grasstops and grassroots strategies that position immigrants and refugees as protectors, givers and Americans in the eyes of the public; and to advocate for a new way forward for America’s immigration system.

Founded in 1982, the National Immigration Forum advocates for the value of immigrants and immigration to our nation. In service to this mission, the Forum promotes responsible federal immigration policies, addressing today’s economic and national security needs while honoring the ideals of our Founding Fathers, who created America as a land of opportunity. For 30 years, the Forum has worked to advance sound federal immigration solutions through its policy expertise, communications outreach and coalition building work, which forges powerful alliances of diverse constituencies across the country to build consensus on the important role of immigrants in America.

We track and quantify our efforts in a number of ways including: - Record the numbers of events and meetings in the key regions of the country. - Capture & record the diverse perspectives of faith, law enforcement, veterans and business leaders through video and sound bites wherein these leaders discuss why they support immigration reform. - Track the number of new partners in our coalitions. - Track outreach and number of visits with Members of Congress - Measure external media hits and impressions. - Track the number of visitors to our website, social media followers and engagement. We are constantly iterating on ways to track our influence and engagement.

Select accomplishments: - Organized 27 Living Room Conversations on a New Approach to American Immigration in conservative cities, suburbs & rural communities across the US. - Completed 2nd year of English language learning program, Skills and Opportunities for the New American Workforce, leading to promotions for 37% of participants. - Worked collaboratively with advocacy and business communities to develop a workforce development policy agenda. - Launched new website and expanded digital strategy to include original video content, a weekly podcast, Only in America, in order to reach targeted conservative audiences. - Drove high profile advocacy and media tactics in collaboration with our growing network of faith, law enforcement and business leaders addressing DACA, the border crisis, & several other issues. - Produced 123 policy analyses media briefings, infographics and reports that advanced the Forum’s policy agenda among conservative & moderate lawmakers.