The Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice is a grassroots, statewide network of individuals and organizations that works to advance and defend the rights of immigrants in Alabama. The coalition consists of seven non-profit organizations, 15 grassroots immigrant community organizations, and hundreds of individual members.

Founded in 2006 and galvanized after the 2011 passage of Alabama’s HB 56, the nation’s harshest anti-immigrant law, ACIJ has become a major progressive organizing force locally and nationally. In just a few short years, the coalition has evolved from a small group of organizations into an active statewide coalition of major progressive policy groups and newly-developed community organizations. ACIJ is creating a strong grassroots base through an unparalleled organizing and leadership development campaign in immigrant communities across the state, while building alliances with other marginalized communities and non-immigrant allies.

The coalition is leading the state to a more equitable and just multi-ethnic, multi-lingual future – building a better Alabama for everyone, from the ground up.

The coalition seek to do this in the following ways:

(1) Developing grassroots immigrant leadership;

(2) Building transformative alliances with African American communities, people of faith, LGBTQ movements, and organized labor;

(3) Organizing for comprehensive immigration reform and stopping family separation through deportation;

(4) Encouraging civic participation and voter engagement;

(5) Transforming Alabama county by county – building alliances and accountability with elected officials, police, service providers and business.

(6) Utilizing strategic communications;

(7) Advocating for just policies on local, state, and national levels.