AMERICAN BUSINESS IMMIGRATION COALITION
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Mission Statement
ABIC's mission is federal immigration reform that creates a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants.
About This Cause
American Business Immigration Coalition (ABIC), established in Illinois in 2013 and recognized as a 501(c)(3) in 2021, is a growing coalition of diverse businesses promoting commonsense immigration policies that increase economic competitiveness and allow for the integration of immigrants into our economy consumers, workers, entrepreneurs and citizens. ABIC is currently headquartered in Chicago, with state chapters in 16 states including Idaho, Illinois, Florida, Texas, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina, North Carolina, Colorado, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada. ABIC’s unique network includes small to midsize to large business owners and farmers, immigrant advocates, directly impacted individuals, labor, and faith leaders working together to advance pro-immigrant solutions at the state and federal levels and to cultivate a pro-business/pro-immigrant climate in the world’s most diverse and immigrant-reliant economy. ABIC significantly influences progress in immigration reform through strategic communications campaigns that engage business voices and their allies across the U.S. to realize humane immigration solutions and reform as an economic necessity and moral imperative. ABIC engages in public education campaigns on immigration issues at the federal, state, and local levels that allow momentum and power building toward mission goals, including expanded high and low skilled visas and agricultural visas. ABIC is flexible in its strategies to achieve its mission, and as opportunity allows, focuses on a path to citizenship for discrete undocumented immigrant groups: Dreamers, agricultural workers, those with Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and “essential workers” at the forefront of combatting COVID-19. In addition to its core issue education and advocacy work, ABIC's largest client-facing programs are its Small Business Recovery and Resilience Program, and Legal Protection Services. ABIC significantly prioritized small business advocacy with the onset of COVID-19 economic devastation, championing immigrant and minority inclusion in relief and now recovery programs; shared equity is a testament of our mission-driven work to uplift immigrant, BIPOC and rural business owners who are the backbone of our nation's economic security and growth. ABIC’s recent federal accomplishments include: stimulus checks for 3.5 million U.S. citizens in mixed status families, for a total of $6.9 billion in relief; inclusion of ITIN business owners and undocumented workers in the $377 billion Paycheck Protection Program; secured bipartisan support of Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act for up to 40,000 new visas/green cards for nurses and doctors working at the frontline against COVID-19; led incorporation of ABIC‘s “Community Navigator” small business technical assistance model into the Biden American Recovery Plan as the demonstration model for the $100 million U.S. SBA Small Business Community Navigator Technical Assistance Program, and; advising senior administration officials including the White House, SBA, Department of Treasury, National Economic Council, and Congress. In this work, ABIC leads immigrant and Black alliances with the Congressional Black and Hispanic Caucuses, and has fostered new collaborations with the National Urban League, NAACP, and CDFI/MDI network. There is possibly no other immigrant advocacy organization that has been more effective in building these high-impact alliances that are resulting in greater economic equity gains for our communities. ABIC’s state/regional chapter strategy allows ABIC to build power in key states where local wins can be leveraged toward federal immigration reform. Some recent state accomplishments and examples of events include: ● In Texas, mobilized a growing chapter of 100+ CEOs, associations, and donor class members to protect the 20-year-old in-state tuition allowance for undocumented students, building public support and political will to defeat the repeal efforts by freshman Republican State Representatives Jeff Cason and Bryan Slaton, and leveraged this state-level victory to reinforce U.S. Senator John Cornyn’s public support for a permanent legal solution to DACA, and won his support for federal stimulus checks for 291,000 US citizens in mixed-status families living in Texas; ● In Florida, hosted a virtual summit with more than 30 organizations, 200 Venezuelan leaders and media as a lead mobilizer of the Venezuelan and Venezuelan-American community in a campaign to educate the public and U.S. Senators on the impact of passing the SECURE Act which provides a pathway to permanency for an estimated 650,000 Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders, including more than 320,000 Venezuelans, most of whom live in Florida; this campaign highly prioritizes engaging supporters on social media with “click to tweets,” email actions and Facebook Live, and has been shared by Venezuelan influencer Carla Angola to her 2.3 million followers, and; ● In Arizona, recruited 47 business leaders and secured Republican State Senator Paul Boyer to file for in-state tuition for Dreamers, passed the measure in the GOP-controlled Senate, then mobilized a coalition of 130+ business, education, faith leaders, and Dreamers to deliver Republican State House members Michelle Udall, Joel John, Joanne Osbourne, and David Cook to join every House Democrat in this historic House win, and now voters will decide on in-state tuition, undeniably building momentum for a federal Dream Act and reform.