We Are America raises the voice of immigrants in the national dialogue around our country’s broken immigration system. We lift up the personal stories of immigrants across America to put real people and communities back into national discussion on immigration policy.
The debate over whether and how to remake America’s immigration system has been driven by rhetoric—passionate or policy focused, heartfelt or hate-filled. Yet immigration reform, like any social change, is really about people: people who suffer under the current system, people who profit from the status quo, and people whose lives would be transformed by a chance to emerge from the shadows and join the American family.
By raising the personal stories of immigrants we ground the immigration reform debate in the context of real people’s lives. We Are America provides the media and the public with a story bank of video, audio, photographic and text stories about real people and what they have at stake in the immigration debate.
We Are America is a project of the Center for Community Change.