... As a former lawyer who focused on asylum issues, immigration detention has always struck me as one of the cruelest and most inhumane features of our immigration system. Even when immigrant detainees are not ... of AB32. Cutting back the number of facilities means less immigration enforcement. Hamid Yazdan Panah, who has directed ...
September 30, 2019
Blog Post
... support for many aspects of that agenda. As American Immigration Council ’s Jorge Loweree observed when asked about the failed bipartisan immigration deal, “Advocating for stricter immigration policy, regardless of the actual results, is just ...
March 13, 2024
President's Message
... huge risk they'll be left out in the cold. The New York Immigration Coalition has launched the #NYunited Fund to ...
May 4, 2020
Response Fund
... communities and galvanizes funders to resource a robust immigration and refugee rights power-building ecosystem. We ...
February, 2023
Organization Materials
The Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, Northern California Grantmakers, and Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees invite you to a funder briefing to learn about exciting initiatives to end the political exclusion of immigrants and build thriving local communities through immigrant voting.
October 25, 2023
Webinar
As we approach 2025, we at GCIR know that working together will be our greatest asset as we face impending challenges for immigrants and the immigrant justice movement. As we continue to mobilize funders into action, philanthropy must utilize its enormous power and privilege to stand with immigrant and refugee communities, one of the primary targets of the incoming administration.
December 19, 2024
Statement
... Communities (December 2022) Strategies for Resisting Immigration Detention in Rural America (January 2023) We ...
... of immigrants in California who are still subject to harsh immigration enforcement and detention, increasing their ... children. Ensure that all immigrants, regardless of their immigration status, have access to COVID-19 information, ... units in hard-to-reach communities. Halt the expansion of immigration detention in the state, suspend the transfer of ...
April 9, 2020
Blog Post
Today, the Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). While the decision was made on procedural grounds and not on the merits of the program, it nevertheless provides a reprieve for 650,000 immigrants and their families, including more than 250,000 U.S.-citizen children.
June 18, 2020
Statement
... Speakers Kamal Essaheb , Deputy Director, National Immigration Law Center (NILC) Sulma Arias , Immigration Field Director, Center for Community Change ...
September 29, 2020
Webinar
In January 2019, I reflected on the extreme anti-immigrant policies that have come out of the White House over the past two years, the resulting human devastation, and the attacks that are expected to continue for the foreseeable future. I called on philanthropy to dream big and act with courage because we can only combat these injustices if we have a vision that surpasses the opposition’s in ambition and scope.
June 5, 2019
President's Message
COVID-19 lockdowns make it even more challenging to ensure hard-to-count populations are accurately represented in the 2020 Census.
April 9, 2020
Commentary
