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In recent decades, detention and deportation have become the entirety of America’s immigration enforcement strategy. This will strike many, perhaps even ...
December 2, 2020
Commentary
... services organizations are working overtime at immigrant detention centers to identify parents who have been separated ... of policies the administration is using to curb legal immigration to the United States, including: enacting harsh ... the Children? Family Separation Becomes U.S. Immigration Enforcement Policy ...
June 27, 2018
Webinar
... over the United States, as part of a federally mandated detention bed quota totaling $2.3 billion. They spend months, ... and philanthropic leaders as we explore the history of immigration detention in America, analyze reforms at the ... role in addressing the issue. Explore The link between immigration detention and a growing prison population ...
March 30, 2017
Co-Sponsored Program
... and reviving rural America, yet the prevalence of immigration detention centers continues to create fear and harm in ... Southern Poverty Law Center sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), alleging that the federal agency was ...
January 25, 2023
Webinar
... reinvestment, and other measures. Context Immigrant Detention Roughly 71 percent of immigrants held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on any given day are in privately operated ...
August, 2019
Funding Recommendations, Issue Brief
... Mongolia who’d been detained together at the West County Detention Facility in Richmond, California. Reverend Deborah ... As a former lawyer who focused on asylum issues, immigration detention has always struck me as one of the ... back the number of facilities means less immigration enforcement. Hamid Yazdan Panah, who has directed the rapid ...
September 30, 2019
Blog Post
... children wake up in the custody of the United States’ immigration detention system. This sprawling system has facilities ... Photo : Wasi Daniju / CC What Funders Need to Know About Immigration Detention: A Primer on the U.S. System ...
July 19, 2018
Monthly Immigration Policy Call
Immigration detention was dangerous before President Trump took office ... global pandemic—have only made the situation more dire. Immigration detention has expanded in the past decade, driven largely by ...
December 2, 2020
Commentary
... funders for an important conversation on the move to end detention. Participants were moved by our ... country who are fighting to end the policy and practice of immigration detention. Hearing the positive outlooks of the national ...
September, 2019
Program Materials
... immigrant and refugee families to be separated. The detention of community members and the recent raid in ... are being separated from families as a result of interior enforcement operations. The administration also just ... Once immigrants and asylumseekers are placed in detention centers across the country, there is much less ...
May 17, 2018
Monthly Immigration Policy Call
... materials for GCIR's "Strategies for Resisting Immigration Detention in Rural America" webinar here, including the ... in Rural Communities Materials: Strategies for Resisting Immigration Detention in Rural America ...
January, 2023
Program Materials
... decision to halt prioritization of certain immigrants for enforcement, and instead treating all unauthorized or ... to 85 percent of deportation cases have originated in peak enforcement years, has dramatically reduced the number of ... report, Revving Up the Deportation Machinery: Enforcement under Trump and the Pushb ack , based on their ...
June 21, 2018
Monthly Immigration Policy Call
In this update to their 2013 report, The Math of immigration Detention , the National Immigration Forum shows that since the publication of that ...
May, 2018
Issue Brief
... own statistics. These parents are still languishing in immigration detention without information about the whereabouts of their ... TX Kate Vickery, MPA, MSCRP, Executive Director Houston Immigration Legal Services Collaborative Houston, TX Randy ...
June 13, 2018
Statement
... 2022 National Convening workshop, "Dismantling Ableist Immigration Policies." Materials: Dismantling Ableist Immigration Policies ...
Program Materials
Resources from GCIR's 2022 National Convening workshop, "Black Immigrants and the Fight for Racial Justice."
May, 2022
Program Materials
... undertook an analysis of the capacity and needs of immigration legal service providers in California . We ... This 2022 report offers recommendations to strengthen immigration legal services in California, drawing on 20 ... organizations and 80 responses to an online survey of immigration legal service providers across the state. Key ...
May, 2022
Report