2024 Advocacy Priorities (.pdf download) 

 

Member Driven, Member Derived

NJAIJ advocacy priorities are determined by our membership. We organize around core campaigns that we collectively work on together and support the campaigns that our members lead.

NJAIJ Core Advocacy Campaigns

Our coalition convenes campaigns for the following policy priorities. Following a state-wide listening tour of our membership, these policy proposals speak to the most urgent and widest range of needs for New Jersey's immigrant communities.

IMMIGRANT TRUST ACT

LANGUAGE ACCESS IMPLEMENTATION

 

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NJAIJ Support Campaigns

Same Day Voter Registration

New Jersey John Lewis Voting Rights Act

Define Islamophobia

Eliminating call cost for incarcerated people

End Home Appraisal Discrimination

Create a Reparations Taskforce

Ending Racial Discrimination in Auto Insurance

Expand Jury Service to People with Previous Convictions

Expanding Cash Assistance in Work First New Jersey

Expanding Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for ITIN filers

Duty to Report Misconduct Records

Banning use of chokeholds

Civilian Complaint Review Boards

Resentence inmates Convicted as Juveniles

Exempt Harm Reduction Supplies

Reproductive Equity Act

Establish Office of New Americans

Replace “illegal alien” with “noncitizen”

Reduce time period for prior offenses in sentencing

Designate June as “Immigrant Heritage Month”

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