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U.S. deportation and expulsion practices are recklessly exposing an entire region to increased risk of COVID-19.
May, 2020
Issue Brief
... all members have valid SSNs. This means that undocumented immigrant and mixed-status families will not receive these ... from the federal government. These payments have a twofold purpose: help people make ends meet and inject money into the ... Congress should ensure that meaningful changes take place without further delay. Conclusion Stories abound of how ...
April 16, 2020
News Article
... Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation toward the California Immigrant Resilience Fund. The Fund, launched on April 15, ... who announced a separate $75 million state-financed immigrant relief fund , the first of its kind in the ... Foundation . “Our Foundation believes that those of us with the resources have the obligation to step up and help ...
May 11, 2020
Press Release
... in the state — lost her job. Now, the undocumented immigrant from Honduras spends her days confined to the room ... have been wiped out by the health crisis and measures in place to try to halt it. “We are going to be dealing with ... this crisis. “It would be good if the state supported us, if they remembered us,” Patricia said. “We ...
March 31, 2020
News Article
... tax credit to undocumented workers, solutions backed by immigrant advocates. “To me this whole pandemic is a ... of dollars, to undocumented workers who pay taxes. Immigrant advocates face an uphill battle, however, in ... 1 million calls the first day. Pandemic Steals Most from Immigrant Working Women ...
May 21, 2020
News Article
... unless they're married and filing taxes jointly with an immigrant who doesn’t have a Social Security number. ...
May 1, 2020
News Article
... assistance and other supports. Before the pandemic, many immigrant families faced explicit barriers to or deferred ... (SNAP), and subsidized housing. Now, at a time when many immigrant families need assistance because they are ... in December 2019 before the onset of the pandemic in the US, shows that many immigrant families went into the ...
June 5, 2020
Blog Post
... young, and our elderly. So it may not be surprising that immigrant communities are disproportionately impacted by the ... and the medical supply chain. Yet many people from immigrant communities struggle to meet their own basic ... approach to meeting the immediate needs of all immigrant communities. We also must design long-term ...
May 15, 2020
Commentary
... the hands of the people who need it most: low income and immigrant families who rely on informal, part time, or gig ...
April 10, 2020
Response Fund
April 15, 2020
Press Release
... the health and wellbeing of all Californians. Our immigrant neighbors, coworkers, and friends are vital to our economic, civic, and cultural fabric. For example, immigrant farm workers, who number between 500,000 and ... and hospitality workers, farmworkers, and others). Many of us are also organizing a statewide direct relief fund and ...
April 9, 2020
Blog Post
... Rapid Response Migration Fund and invites you to help us offer support to all our partners doing critical work on ... matches to our emergency grantmaking fund will allow us to offer flexible grants to organizations so they can run ... Founded in 1983, HIP’s transnational identity provides us a unique ability to bridge the gap between funders and ...
March 18, 2020
Response Fund
... (dba Edwin and Dorothy Baker Foundation), the Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition, Democratic Socialist of America ... our undocumented community members can only get help from us. Nearly 31,000 undocumented immigrants live in Long ...
April 10, 2020
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey announced Friday he will use his emergency powers to create a $5 million forgivable loan program to help renters and small businesses affected by the economic fallout from the spread of COVID-19.
Unlike federal and state relief packages, families will be eligible for assistance regardless of their immigration or documentation status — offering a lifeline to thousands of people living in the city.
April 3, 2020
Response Fund
... funded safety net programs. This comes at a time when immigrant communities were already threatened by ...
April 10, 2020
Response Fund
In our most difficult moments, we lean on what make us strong. We come from generations of people who are ...
March 18, 2020
Response Fund
Join ReWork the Bay, in partnership with the San Francisco Foundation and the Grove Foundation, who have mapped cash relief efforts across the nine-county Bay Area, as a first step toward strengthening the infrastructure needed to ensure undocumented residents can safely and efficiently access cash relief.
June 10, 2020
Co-Sponsored Program