Immigration Works - organization summary
| Organization name | Immigration Works |
| Website | www.immigrationworksusa.org |
| Location | Washington, DC |
| Founded | Unspecified |
| Board | Tamar Jacoby: President; Linda Chavez: Chairman, Center for Equal Opportunity; Marshall Fitz: Director of Immigration Policy, Center for American Progress; Carlos M. Gutierrez: Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce; Richie Jackson: Executive Vice President and CEO, Texas Restaurant Association; Randel K. Johnson: Senior Vice President, Labor, Immigration and Employee Benefits, U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Jim Kolbe: Senior Transatlantic Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the U.S., Bill Marriott: Chairman and CEO, Marriott International; Pia Orrenius: Senior Economist, Policy Advisor, Dallas Federal Reserve Bank; Archie Schaffer, III: Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Tyson Foods; Andrew Selee: Director, Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |
| Purpose | ImmigrationWorks USA is a national organization advancing immigration reform that works for all Americans - employers, workers and citizens. Its twin goals: to educate the public about the benefits of immigration and build a mainstream grassroots constituency in favor of better law - business owners and others from across America willing to speak out and demand an overhaul. |
| Immigration position | Help the coalitions document the economic benefits of immigration. The central goal of an immigration overhaul is to bring the U.S.'s annual legal intake of foreign workers more realistically into line with the economy's need for foreign labor. These new more realistic quotas must be accompanied by tougher enforcement, both on the border and in the workplace. Raising immigration quotas to make them more realistic will greatly facilitate enhanced enforcement. |
| Programs | The key to winning is an army of engaged, articulate employers prepared to contact their members of Congress and make the case for immigration reform. These troops must be recruited state by state, business by business, peer-to-peer. The goal: a national database that can produce the faxes and phone calls we'll need to counter the faxes and phone calls of the restrictionist right. IW has helped employers from a range of sectors come together to make the case for reform that meets U.S. demand for legal immigrant workers. |
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