About Us
who we are
Filipinx for Immigrant Rights and Racial Justice Minnesota (FIRM) is a non-profit and non-partisan organization founded in 2016 by a group of Filipinx community leaders in response to the rise in anti-immigrant rhetoric and bigotry against marginalized communities.
The Filipinx community is the fourth largest immigrant group in the USA. In Minnesota, there are 20,000 Filipinx that makes up 6.3% of the Asian American Pacific Islander community. FIRM will be a collective voice of the Filipinx diaspora in Minnesota to speak out for open and fair immigration policies that provide a pathway to a better life for all and to oppose immigration policies that violate human dignity, separate families, and force communities to live in the shadows where they are easily exploited or discarded.