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National Alliance for Immigrants rights

Intro: It is an organization that advocates the legal status for illegal immigrant workers in the United States. Moreover, this organization advocates the stop to all deportations. The National Alliance for Immigrants Rights was also a series of coordinated local actions. The first local actions took place in Labor Day. The protests pressure the congress in order to enact an immigration reform. The results were to reach a compromise which was later denied by the Republican House leadership due to the repressive form of writing the reform.

History

Before the Great American Boycott in 2006, there were many protests that targeting a punitive bill that was passed by the United States House of Representative in December 2005. This bill gave the illegal immigrant a label being a “aggravated felons” (Bustelo) . This criminalized and dehumanized the undocumented immigrants. This sparked the spread of the immigrant rights movement which was followed by march protests in 2006. These protestors demanded justice for immigrant workers working in extreme measures and supported legislation allowing undocumented immigrants the opportunity to regulate their immigration status.

Great American Boycott:

            The Great American Boycott became an iconic protest that urge illegal immigrant and supporter to stay at home to protest the businesses across American on May 1, 2006.  It became one of the biggest US protests in history against the reinforced immigration laws. Most of these protestors were Latino immigrants, documented and undocumented immigrants, children and agricultural workers. This became the Great American Boycott of 2006. Friedman, an author of the book “Consumer Boycotts” expresses his emotions towards the American Boycott. The real purpose of the "Great American Boycott" is not to squeeze the U.S. economy, Friedman said, but "it's really a day to call attention to ... some of the concerns that immigrants have had over the years." 

Nativo Lopez-Vigil

Nativo Lopez-Vigil is the president of the Mexican American Political Association and leader of the National Alliance movement in Los Angeles. He led the organization of the 2006 United States Immigration Reform Protest on March 25,2006 in Los Angeles and the Great American Boycott in May 1, 2006 in Los Angeles.

See Also

Activism

2006 United States immigration reform protests

Mexican-American

Grassroots

Johnson , Kevin R., and Bill Ong Hing. "The Immigrant Rights Marches of 2006 and the Prospects for a New Civil Rights Movement." (2016): n. pag. Web.

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