National Immigration Law Center

Protecting immigrant families: protecting immigrant families (pif), a separately operated coalition fiscally sponsored by the national immigration law center, is focused on protecting and defending access to health care, nutrition programs, public services, and economic supports for immigrants and their families at the local, state, and federal levels. Pif's key accomplishments during this period include: 1) supporting pif state affiliates in conducting 40 in-person events that reached nearly 3,900 people, and 143 virtual events with a reach of 8,400+ people; 2) creating a "getting your kids the benefits they need" resource checklist and webinar with 330+ registrants in coordination with coalition partners; 3) executing a federal advocacy day in may 2024, which included over 26 visits with policymakers to educate them on health and public benefits issues affecting immigrants; and 4) coordinating a medicaid unwinding task force to identify potential problems for immigrant families during the process to end the continuous coverage requirement originally linked to the covid public health emergency; this task force conducted a survey about the "unwinding" that elicited responses from people in 27 states, published a report, and hosted a webinar on the report's findings revealing the disproportionately negative impact of the medicaid eligibility policy change on immigrant families.

Other programs include activities related to narrative change, the immigrant movement visioning project, and strategic communications. Narrative change works to shift hearts and minds through art, storytelling, and culture to advance a just and equitable society. The immigrant movement visioning project engages diverse immigrant justice leaders to plan and articulate a long-term vision for the immigrant movement. The strategic communications team advances strategic priorities with compelling messages that reach their intended audiences.

Partnerships and advocacy: one of nilc's core program strategies focuses on contributing to a stronger immigrant justice movement by leading and supporting collaborations and partnerships with other immigrants' rights organizations. As part of these partnerships and advocacy efforts during the reporting period, nilc launched three campaigns focused on key issues affecting the lives of low-income immigrants and their families. This included a health for all campaign designed to expand health care coverage to millions of immigrants by advancing creative policy solutions that respond to the needs and policy environments of different states, and building on state-level victories to fuel momentum for a national health for all movement. Nilc also launched an education for all campaign dedicated to protecting the right of every child, regardless of immigration status, to access a free k-12 public education. The partnerships and advocacy team also launched a save daca campaign designed to advance a myriad of legislative, administrative, and private sector solutions at the federal, state, and local levels to demand permanent policy solutions for immigrant youth who need the permanency and stability of a pathway to citizenship.