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... children wake up in the custody of the United States’ immigration detention system. This sprawling system has ... system works, who operates the facilities, what is known about the conditions, and how philanthropy is engaging in ... Photo : Wasi Daniju / CC What Funders Need to Know About Immigration Detention: A Primer on the U.S. System ...
July 19, 2018
... to function as a society with a shared set of information about the world. In this discussion, funders will learn from ... Tsion Gurmu , Legal Director, Black Alliance for Just Immigration Rachel Levinson-Waldman , Managing Director, ...
February 5, 2025
Webinar
... and reviving rural America, yet the prevalence of immigration detention centers continues to create fear and ... the 1990s. In 2018, the Southern Poverty Law Center sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), alleging that the ... organizations are confronting the harmful impacts of immigration detention on communities across the country. We ...
January 25, 2023
Webinar
... materials for GCIR's "Strategies for Resisting Immigration Detention in Rural America" webinar here, ... in Rural Communities Materials: Strategies for Resisting Immigration Detention in Rural America ...
January, 2023
Program Materials
... Detention Roughly 71 percent of immigrants held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on any given day ... $25 million on lobbying for harsher criminal justice and immigration laws and another $10 million in support of their ... Financial Institution (CDFI). If there are concerns about your current bank but it is not feasible to end the ...
August, 2019
Funding Recommendations, Issue Brief
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar "The Threat of AI and Technology to Immigrant Justice" here, including the session recording, transcription of the webinar, and relevant links.
February, 2025
Program Materials
... of policies the administration is using to curb legal immigration to the United States, including: enacting harsh ... of these policies on families and children, and learn about GCIR’s recommendations on how philanthropy can ... CC Where Are the Children? Family Separation Becomes U.S. Immigration Enforcement Policy ...
June 27, 2018
Webinar
Program Materials
... 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 ... compliance mechanisms and other alternatives to the immigration detention system Current and future reforms and ...
March 30, 2017
Co-Sponsored Program
... provide a first-hand look at how local, state, and federal immigration policies are impacting communities throughout ... Building Community Connections: A Texas Learning Tour on Immigration ...
June 5, 2017
Learning Tour
In this update to their 2013 report, The Math of immigration Detention , the National Immigration Forum shows that since the publication of that report and the collapse of bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform in 2013, the federal government’s ...
May, 2018
Issue Brief
... to helping immigrants navigate the complexities of our immigration laws—and often means the difference between ...
March, 2017
Factsheet
... from a port of entry (under temporary injunction). 3 In Immigration Court DOJ strains Immigration Judges with ... participate and support these efforts. Educating lawmakers about asylum and identifying champions for a more progressive ... sweeping limits on access to asylum. Shift the Narrative About Asylum Seekers Effective messaging and communications ...
March, 2019
Issue Brief
... that the administration is using the backlog in immigration court case processing [3] as well as the recent ... also note the difficulty in gathering quantitative data about this trend), several noted that there is anecdotal ... from detention, government officials do not inform them about the one-year deadline to apply for asylum or assist ...
March, 2019
Report
... have also narrowed the deportation pipeline. Learn more about these trends during this call, which will feature two ...
June 21, 2018
... The purpose of the trip was to meet with deportees, learn about their stories, and host a legal clinic to those interested in reopening their immigration cases. Upon meeting with deportees, we learned ...
January 30, 2020
Co-Sponsored Program
... is released? Join this six-hour learning lab to learn about the journey of an immigrant in the United States’ immigration enforcement system, from apprehension and initial ...
September 12, 2018
Regional Briefing
Join Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) and Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP) for a special two-part series with experts from the field on understanding the challenges and opportunities along the southern border, with an emphasis on the role philanthropy can play at this critical stage.
April 22, 2021
Partner Program