The Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform is lobbying for changes in immigration law to allow Irish people to legally immigrate to the U.S.

Irish people were disproportionately affected by the 1965 Immigration Act which effectively closed the door to future Irish immigrants.

The late Senator Edward Kennedy, one of the original architects of the 1965 Act admitted that in a 2006 panel on immigration when he said that the Act and subsequent changes "worked in a very dramatic and significant way against the Irish."