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... immigrant and refugee families to be separated. The detention of community members and the recent raid in ... Series: Deportation Defense Options , GCIR, March 2017. Family Separation Policies and Access to Justice in Detention Systems ...
May 17, 2018
... policy against those seeking entry, resulting in the separation of children from their parents. This policy is the ... issued an executive order that would allow it to detain family members together indefinitely. Detaining children ... These parents are still languishing in immigration detention without information about the whereabouts of their ...
June 13, 2018
Statement
... services organizations are working overtime at immigrant detention centers to identify parents who have been separated ... of Programs, GCIR Speakers Manoj Govindaiah, Director of Family Detention, RAICES Laura St. John, Legal Director, ... Photo : ybs / CC Where Are the Children? Family Separation Becomes U.S. Immigration Enforcement Policy ...
June 27, 2018
Webinar
... many of those families. Some families are now held in family detention, while others have been released to communities ... Fluharty, Attorney at Law, Special Project Dir. (Dilley Family Detention Project), Texas RioGrande Legal Aid Kay ...
August 16, 2018
... funders for an important conversation on the move to end detention. Participants were moved by our ... are fighting to end the policy and practice of immigration detention. Hearing the positive outlooks of the national ... Collaborative for Immigrant Justice Kate Clark , Jewish Family Services San Diego Sandy Valenciano , California ...
September, 2019
Program Materials
... Mongolia who’d been detained together at the West County Detention Facility in Richmond, California. Reverend Deborah ... migration requires them to leave their homelands, breach family and community ties, and brave hazardous journeys. It ... officers from the Firedoll Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, and the Four Freedoms Fund, we organized a ...
September 30, 2019
Blog Post
... wake up in the custody of the United States’ immigration detention system. This sprawling system has facilities ... in this area. The program will also include an update on family separation and detention. Speakers Ruthie Epstein , Senior ...
July 19, 2018
... over the United States, as part of a federally mandated detention bed quota totaling $2.3 billion. They spend months, ... justice system without a hearing or any news on when their detention might end. The vast majority of detainees are ... leaders as we explore the history of immigration detention in America, analyze reforms at the local and ...
March 30, 2017
Co-Sponsored Program
GCIR is proud to share that after months of deep evaluation, final learnings from the California Dignity for Families Fund (CA DFF) are now published in our new report, “Providing Refuge & Restoring Dignity: Meeting the Needs of Migrants in a Networked Way.”
October, 2023
Report
... reviving rural America, yet the prevalence of immigration detention centers continues to create fear and harm in ... series on rural power building – we will explore how detention in rural areas is harming communities; challenges ... are confronting the harmful impacts of immigration detention on communities across the country. We invite you to ...
January 25, 2023
Webinar
... reinvestment, and other measures. Context Immigrant Detention Roughly 71 percent of immigrants held by ... it incarcerates. At least 22 immigrants have died in ICE detention centers over the past two years, and more than 188 ... to a major 2016 Department of Justice report . Private detention facilities generate 175% more grievance filings ...
August, 2019
Funding Recommendations, Issue Brief
... materials for GCIR's "Strategies for Resisting Immigration Detention in Rural America" webinar here, including the ... Materials: Strategies for Resisting Immigration Detention in Rural America ...
January, 2023
Program Materials
... One in four U.S. children lives in an immigrant family, and the next four years will bring unprecedented ... threats to their safety and wellbeing. From ongoing family separations and the threat of mass deportations, ...
... immigrant families. Day 1: Tour an immigration detention facility for adults and hear from immigrant ... crossed the border. Understand their journeys, see the detention center setting, and find out more about the legal ...
September 20, 2018
Learning Tour
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar "Protecting Immigrant Families and Children" here.
March, 2025
Program Materials
... of challenges: barriers related to their or their family members’ immigration status, policies and programs ... capacity in the areas of child development, education, family support, health, immigrant integration, and legal ...
February, 2018
Funding Recommendations
... tens of millions of immigrants of all statuses and their family members, who may withdraw from or avoid nutrition, ... that fuel widespread fear and increase arbitrary detention and deportation 3) To prevent would-be asylees, ... that led to the possibility of the Muslim Ban, Family Separation, and Public Charge need to be challenged and ...
August, 2019
Funding Recommendations, Issue Brief
... hours - Folks in deportation proceedings or who have a family member in detention due to immigration challenges -At-risk individuals ...
April 24, 2020
Response Fund