Our work at PCIS is grounded in the lived experience of the communities most impacted by structurally oppressive, violent, and racialized immigration enforcement and exclusion. As an immigrant-led 501(c)3 non-profit organization, PCIS utilizes fully permissible advocacy tools—including nonpartisan political and legal education, community mobilization, legal rights-based advocacy work, and policy-oriented anti-racist civic engagement—to shift the balance of power in rural Southwest Washington in favor of immigrant families and communities historically marginalized in Washington’s civic and policy spaces.

PCIS leadership meets regularly with local changemakers, officials, and institutions to ensure that Southwest Washington remains accessible and safe for all, regardless of where they were born. In 2025, PCIS met with Governor Bob Ferguson as well as other state and municipal government officials (Mayors, City Councilors, County Commissioners); leadership at our local hospitals (Board of Directors, CEOs, staff) and schools (superintendents, principals, teachers, band directors); law enforcement (sheriffs, police chiefs, officers,) and emergency responders (fire chiefs, fire district representatives); allied community based organizations (Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network, Pacific County Voices United, Indivisible Pacific County, Peninsula Poverty Response, Mi Chiantla, El Centro Northwest, Consejo Hispano, etc.); indigenous stakeholders (Chinook Nation); and more!