Alianza Americas set out to influence the course of the national discourse on migrants and migration with the webinar series Contextualizing the Migrant Crisis Narrative. The series was led by a group of organizations in the Chicagoland area as an effort to contextualize the current wave of migrants arriving in the United States. 

Climate change and forced displacement do not affect us equally.

During the last decades, especially during the last five years, migrants are associated with detention, criminalization and family separation. Leaders, forced to migrate to the United States, and allies share what freedom means to them, and question the discourses associated with migrant communities.

Congress must have the courage to change immigration law to reflect reality: migrants are of great benefit to the country and the communities where they settle.