6TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE
December 6-8, 2007, Arlington, Virginia

To see the conference program, click here.

THANKS to everyone who contributed to -- by helping plan it or by attending it -- the 6th National Low-Income Immigrant Rights Conference!  (Registration page | Conference hotel) 

(Conference cosponsor sign-up page | PDF form | Conference cosponsors)

550 of the leading advocates, organizers, and other experts from across the country representing local, state, and national immigrant and refugee rights, civil rights, health care, anti-poverty, legal, faith-based, ethnic, labor, community, and low-wage worker groups.  (For a list of conference cosponsors, click here.  For profiles of conference speakers and presenters, click here.)

Conference features

• Keynote address by Rev. Nelson N. Johnson

• Trainings, strategy and dialogue sessions

• Plenary sessions on cross-cutting issues

• Click here to see the conference program (PDF)

Workshop Descriptions
 & Materials

• Workshop Descriptions & Materials  (All workshop and plenary session presentation materials submitted for posting as of Dec. 20, 2007, are now posted.)

• To get up to speed on laws and policies affecting immigrants.

• To connect with immigrant rights advocates working at the national, state, and local levels.

• To participate in developing organizing and advocacy strategies around critical issues affecting low-income immigrants in the U.S., including:

  • Workers’ rights

  • Safety-net programs and services

  • Anti-immigrant proposals

  • Educational and other opportunities

  • Immigration enforcement

  • Due process and constitutional rights

  • Immigration reform

Past conferences have been highly praised for building momentum toward developing a national agenda on these and other important immigrants’ rights issues.  We expect this year’s conference to be similarly galvanizing.

Doubletree Hotel Crystal City, in Arlington, Virginia
(Just outside Washington, DC)

Room Rates  (if booked before November 5, 2007, at 11:59 p.m.):
   $149 (+tax) per night for 1 or 2 people
   $169 (+tax) per night for 3 people, or
   $189 (+tax) per night or 4 people

Due to the shortage of hotel space in the Washington, DC, area, we strongly urge you to make hotel reservations or alternate housing arrangements as soon as possible.

To book your room now, click here, or you can call the hotel directly to book your room at 800-222-8733 or 703-416-4100.  To receive the discounted group conference rate, you must say that you are part of the “National Immigration Law Center’s Low-Income Immigrant Rights Conference group.”  You must book your room no later than November 5, 2007, at 11:59 p.m. to qualify for the conference rate.

• American Civil Liberties Union/Immigrants’ Rights Project (ACLU/IRP)

• American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)

• Asian American Justice Center (AAJC)

• Catholic Charities USA

• Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC)

• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP)

• Change to Win (CtW)

• Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)

• National Council of La Raza (NCLR)

• National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON)

• National Employment Law Project (NELP)

• National Immigration Forum

• National Immigration Law Center (NILC)

• National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG/NIP)

• National Korean American Service and Education Consortium (NAKASEC)

For a list of conference cosponsors, click here.

To see the conference program, click here.