ADD YOUR NAME: Co-Sponsor the WAISN 2025 Policy Platform
Co-Sponsor the WAISN 2025 Policy Platform
Every year, WAISN chooses a policy platform of campaigns that will improve the wellbeing of immigrant communities. We seek to advance these policies during Washington’s legislative session to hopefully get these policy proposals passed into law.
WAISN has created a policy platform for the 2025-2026 legislative cycle to pierce through these elitist political spaces and transform the material realities of immigrants. The following priorities have been informed by directly impacted immigrant communities.
WAISN’s Primary Policy Priorities for 2025 include:
- Unemployment Insurance for Undocumented Workers
- Health Care Equity for Immigrants
- Support for Housing in Secondary Priorities
WAISN’s Secondary Policy Priorities for 2025 include:
- Rent Stabilization
- Ending Collaboration between ICE and Dept of Corrections
- Domestic Workers Bill of Rights
- Newly Arrived Migrants Support
- Ending the Long-Term Use of Solitary Confinement
- State Legal Defense Fund
- Traffic Safety for All
WAISN’s Tertiary Policy Priorities for 2025 include:
- Healthy Home Repairs
- Permanent Fund for Housing Trust Fund
- Transit Oriented Development
- School Meals for All
- Pay Pathways for Undocumented Students
- Universal Childcare
- Ensuring Free Public K-12 Education for all Students
- Free College for All
- Juvenile Sentencing Reform
- Eliminating Isolation & Restraint in Schools
- Washington Future Fund (Baby Bonds)
- Repeal Parents Bill of Rights
- Attorney General Investigation and Reform Bill
- Independent Investigations for Police Violence
- Immigrant Post-Conviction Relief Services
- Deferred Action Labor Enforcement Protection Support
- Unemployment Insurance for Striking Workers
- Expanding Working Families Tax Credit
- Wealth Tax
- Guaranteed Basic Income
- Keep Our Care Act
- Dual & Tribal Language Programs
- Closing the Gift Card Loophole
- People's Privacy Act
- Electoral Language Access
- WA Office of Language Access
- Expanding Court Interpreters
- People Powered Elections WA
- Repealing Concealed Birth Statute
- Certification Requirements for Law Enforcement
- Guard Card Change for Security Officers
We need to become even more unapologetic as the rise of white supremacy and xenophobia continues, and defend immigrants’ humanity against structures of power that threaten our wellbeing. This selection of campaign priorities will make sure immigrant and refugee communities in Washington are not just surviving, but also thriving.
When we fight and come together as a coalition, centering the experiences and voices of directly impacted people, we win. Add your name in support of the 2025 WAISN Policy Platform to show Washington lawmakers that this community is united behind a policy agenda that values accountability, care, solidarity, and justice.
