Origins New York City Founded 2016 | Area served United States | |
Focus "To protect, celebrate, empower, promote, and inform over 81 million immigrant citizens of the United States. Location The Avenue of the Immigrants
New York, New York Website americanimmigrantsociety.org | ||
The American Immigrant Society (AIS) was established in 2016 to humanize, protect, celebrate, empower, promote, and inform over 81 million immigrant citizens of the United States, comprising one-quarter of the population of the United States.The American Immigrant Society seeks to eliminate prejudice or discrimination against American immigrants, raises the level of discourse in the nation’s media and public domains to a positive and productive one regarding the importance of immigrants to the health and vitality of the nation, provides analysis and recommendations to national political and thought leaders with a nuanced and powerful persuasive digital platform, and provides resources to American immigrants to help them adjust to life in the United States as well as to defend their civil rights.
The 501C3 nonprofit organization believes that America has benefited greatly throughout its history by welcoming tens of millions of immigrants from over 95 countries. AIS will unite this nation’s major ethnic societies, and facilitate collaboration among leading non-profits committed to improving our culture’s acceptance of immigrants.AIS will unite this nation’s major ethnic societies, and facilitate collaboration among leading non-profits committed to improving our culture’s acceptance of immigrants. Our motto is “We are all proud American Immigrants” and we unite under the social media hashtags #UnitedAsOne and #UnidosComoUno.
One of the missions of The American Immigrant Society is to re-energize the celebration of National Immigrants Day on October 28 every year. In 1987, during the second term of the Ronald Reagan Presidency, the U.S. Congress passed Public Law No 100-62 (S.J. Res. 867) dated June 29, 1987, designating every October 28 as "National Immigrants Day" in the United States. The American Immigrant Society will also inaugurate a National Immigrants Day Parade in New York City, on the final Sunday of every October, to memorialize and celebrate the achievements of more than 100 million immigrants who have migrated to the United States since the Irish Potato Famine of 1847.
Activities
The activities of the American Immigrant Society are intended to foster a safeguarded and connected immigrant community in the USA, and to encourage a positive message of how American immigrants provide growth, jobs, and prosperity for the USA.
Our activities for 2017 are:
- Provide a digital platform with critical information for all immigrants in the USA;
- Create symposia, town hall meetings, and web streamed communications to promote the positive economic impact of immigration in the USA.
- Be the predominant non-profit sector advocate for "big city" Offices of Immigrant Affairs, starting with NYC.
- Aggregate the individual ethnic immigrant non-profit organizations in the USA under one unified organizational and thematic message.
- Build American Immigrant Community Centers in the 3 largest immigrant concentrations in the USA, starting with NYC.
AIS's offices are located on the Avenue of The Immigrants, on the Lower East Side of New York City. The Lower East Side is where many Immigrants to the United States of all ethnic backgrounds and religious faiths settled and worked once they had cleared all immigration processes on Ellis Island in New York City.