{{infobox organization | status = 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization<ref name= 990-2016>"[http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2016/262/033/2016-262033929-0ea2642f-ZO.pdf Form 990: Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax]". ''ImmigrationWorks USA''. Guidestar. December 31, 2016.</ref> | headquarters = Washington, D.C.<ref name= 990-2016/> | leader_title = Corporation | leader_name = Tamar Jacoby<ref name= 990-2016/> | name = ImmigrationWorks USA | founded = {{start date and age|2008|07|18}}<ref name= corp>"[https://corp.dcra.dc.gov/BizEntity.aspx/ViewEntityData?entityId=2693018 ImmigrationWorks USA]{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}". ''District of Columbia Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs''. Government of the District of Columbia. Accessed on April 19, 2016.</ref> | tax_id = 26-2033929<ref name= 990-2016/> | num_employees = 2 | num_employees_year = 2017 | revenue = $122,963<ref name= 990-2016/> | revenue_year = 2016 | expenses = $91,290<ref name= 990-2016/> | expenses_year = 2016 | website = {{URL|www.immigrationworksusa.org}} }} '''ImmigrationWorks USA''' was a national 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization in the United States that advocated for freer movement of workers, representing the interests of businesses who would like to be able to hire migrant workers more freely. It linked 25 state-based coalitions of businesses.<ref name=about>{{cite web|url=http://www.immigrationworksusa.org/index.php?p=20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919014743/http://www.immigrationworksusa.org/index.php?p=20|url-status=usurped|archive-date=September 19, 2008|title = Our Mission|publisher = ImmigrationWorks USA|accessdate = July 31, 2014}}</ref> The organization also had a sister foundation, '''ImmigrationWorks Foundation''', that was a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization.<ref name=givewell>{{cite web|url=http://www.givewell.org/labs/causes/labor-mobility/ImmigrationWorks|title = ImmigrationWorks grant|publisher = GiveWell|accessdate = July 31, 2014}}</ref>
==People==
Tamar Jacoby, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and long-time advocate of free movement of labor, was the driving force behind ImmigrationWorks USA.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.immigrationworksusa.org/index.php?p=40|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509020732/http://www.immigrationworksusa.org/index.php?p=40|url-status=usurped|archive-date=May 9, 2008|title = Tamar Jacoby, President & CEO|publisher = ImmigrationWorks USA|accessdate = July 31, 2014}}</ref><ref name=nytimes-start>{{cite news|url = http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_nyt-the_post-mortem.htm|title = The Post-Mortem|newspaper = The New York Times|date = June 30, 2007|accessdate = July 31, 2014|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120929093007/http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_nyt-the_post-mortem.htm|archive-date = September 29, 2012|url-status = dead}}</ref>
==Principles==
Jacoby claimed to advance the following principles through ImmigrationWorks:<ref name=givewell/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.immigrationworksusa.org/index.php?p=50|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919014805/http://www.immigrationworksusa.org/index.php?p=50|url-status=usurped|archive-date=September 19, 2008|title = Principles|publisher = ImmigrationWorks USA|accessdate = July 31, 2014}}</ref>
* '''A legal system that works''': Bringing the United States' annual legal intake of foreigners in line with the country's labor needs. * '''Smarter, better enforcement''' that would be made easier by the reduced incentives to migrate illegally once labor movement has been liberalized. * '''Worksite verification''' that does not penalize employers for errors in government databases. * '''A remedy for past mistakes''': Finding a middle ground for dealing with the current unauthorized population that involves neither deportation nor amnesty. * '''Protecting U.S. workers''' by holding legal foreign workers to the same labor standards as domestic workers are held. * '''Washington and the states''': Immigration policy is a federal responsibility, and must ultimately be resolved at the federal level.
Charity evaluator GiveWell, in its review, stated: "In practice, IW focuses primarily on the first of these bullet points, and its advocacy efforts tend to be oriented towards Republicans."<ref name=givewell/>
==Activities==
ImmigrationWorks worked to facilitate more grassroots lobbying by local businesses, as well as public opinion research and lobbying legislators. On request from charity evaluator GiveWell, ImmigrationWorks prepared a list of things they would do with additional money (that they then received from Good Ventures):<ref name=givewell/><ref name=goodventures/>
# Advocacy for immigration reform # Public opinion research # Building consensus around policy
==External reviews==
Charity evaluator and effective altruism organization GiveWell reviewed ImmigrationWorks in 2015 as a potential funding opportunity.<ref name=givewell/><ref name=goodventures/>
==History==
According to a ''New York Times'' article, Tamar Jacoby, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, was motivated to create ImmigrationWorks USA after seeing the political difficulties that ensnared the attempted passage of immigration reform in 2006.<ref name=nytimes-start/> ImmigrationWorks USA started operations in 2008 so as to help employers make their case for the need for freer movement of workers more effectively to politicians as well as the general public. Their work, including a successful lobbying effort in Arizona, was reported in ''The New York Times'' in 2008.<ref name=nytimes-2008>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/world/americas/06iht-immig.1.14264586.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|title = U.S. employers challenge crackdown on illegal immigrants|last = Preston|first = Julia|date = July 6, 2008|accessdate = July 31, 2014|newspaper = The New York Times}}</ref>
According to ProPublica, ImmigrationWorks USA submitted Internal Revenue Service documentation from 2008 to 2016 as a tax exempt non-profit organization.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/262033929|title=ImmigrationWorks USA|website=ProPublica|access-date=August 8, 2018}}</ref> ProPublica does not list analogous "form 990" information from 2017 or 2018.
==Funding==
ImmigrationWorks received funding from a number of foundations, including the Carnegie Corporation, Ford Foundation,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fordfoundation.org/grants/grantdetails?grantid=111007|title = ImmigrationWorks Foundation|publisher = Ford Foundation|accessdate = July 31, 2014}}</ref> Four Freedoms Fund, and Open Society Institute.<ref name=givewell/> In July 2014, Good Ventures, the private foundation of Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna, made an unrestricted grant of $285,000 USD to ImmigrationWorks, drawing on GiveWell's investigation of the organization.<ref name=goodventures>{{cite web|url = http://www.goodventures.org/our-portfolio/grants/immigrationworks-foundation-general-support-july-2014|title = ImmigrationWorks Foundation — General Support|date = July 2014|accessdate = July 31, 2014|archive-date = August 11, 2014|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140811101035/http://www.goodventures.org/our-portfolio/grants/immigrationworks-foundation-general-support-july-2014|url-status = dead}}</ref>
==Media coverage==
ImmigrationWorks USA has been covered by ''The New York Times''<ref name=nytimes-start/><ref name=nytimes-2008/> and its president and CEO, Tamar Jacoby, has been cited in NYT articles on immigration to the United States.<ref name=nytimes-2009-labor>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/us/14immig.html?pagewanted=all|title = Immigration Accord by Labor Boosts Obama Effort|last = Preston|first = Julia|last2 = Greenhouse|first2 = Steven|date = April 13, 2009|accessdate = July 31, 2014|newspaper = The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/immigrant-children-in-legal-limbo/|title = Immigrant Children in Legal Limbo|date = April 22, 2009|accessdate = July 31, 2014|newspaper = The New York Times}}</ref> Jacoby has also been cited repeatedly in her capacity as ImmigrationWorks USA CEO in ''The Wall Street Journal''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324345804578427170797280396|title = Immigration Bill's Price Tag an Issue|last = Murray|first = Sara|date = April 16, 2013|accessdate = July 31, 2014|newspaper = The Wall Street Journal}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323838204579000831062738684|title = Businesses Push for More Low-Skill Visas. Measures in Immigration Bills Could Boost Number of Temporary Laborers; Critics See Them as a Ploy to Get Cheap Labor|last = Murray|first = Sara|date = August 8, 2013|accessdate = July 31, 2014|newspaper = Wall Street Journal}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303983904579091403287781232|title = Immigration Advocates Consider a Compromise. Plan Would Offer Legal Status, Not a 'Special Path' to Citizenship, as Comprehensive Bill Stalls|last = Meckler|first = Laura|date = September 22, 2013|accessdate = July 31, 2014|newspaper = The Wall Street Journal}}</ref> ImmigrationWorks USA has also been cited in ''Forbes,''<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2013/04/16/too-few-work-visas-in-new-immigration-bill/|title = Too Few Work Visas in New Immigration Bill|last = Anderson|first = Stuart|date = April 16, 2013|accessdate = July 31, 2014|magazine = Forbes}}</ref> ''Business Insider'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/immigration-advocates-dont-like-in-bill-2013-4|title = What Immigration Advocates Don't Like About The New Reform Bill|last = Sarlin|first = Benjy|date = April 18, 2013|accessdate = July 31, 2014|website = Business Insider}}</ref> and ''The Economist''.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.economist.com/united-states/2008/12/18/the-border-closes|title = Immigration: The border closes. Tougher enforcement and the recession have cut the flow of immigrants; but the state of the economy has made it harder to overhaul a broken system|journal = The Economist|date = December 18, 2008|access-date = July 31, 2014}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
{{official website|www.immigrationworksusa.org}}
Category:501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations