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... only morally repugnant, but also bad policy, as decades of private prison expansion in the United States have ... sufficient oversight, and subvert sensible public policy by bankrolling lobbying for excessive incarceration. The ... prisons, versus 8.5 percent of incarcerated individuals in state and federal custody. The proportion of immigrants in ...
August, 2019
Funding Recommendations, Issue Brief
... in immigrant communities. According to a recent analysis by the National Committee on Responsive Philanthropy, 52% of ... detaining people in rural areas far from legal resources. In this webinar session – a part of GCIR’s ... to obtaining legal representation; and how local, state, and national organizations are confronting the harmful ...
January 25, 2023
Webinar
In this update to their 2013 report, The Math of immigration ...
May, 2018
Issue Brief
Program Materials
... materials for GCIR's "Strategies for Resisting Immigration Detention in Rural America" webinar here, ... session recording and PowerPoint. This webinar was part of our series on building power in rural America. We invite ... video recordings and materials from the first two sessions of the series: Session 1: Building Immigrant & Worker Power ...
January, 2023
Program Materials
Program Partners Baptist Health Foundation of San Antonio Harold Simmons Foundation Houston Endowment ... staff—that will provide a first-hand look at how local, state, and federal immigration policies are impacting ... with a funders’ briefing in Harlingen, followed by site visits to key destinations in the Rio Grande Valley. ...
June 5, 2017
Learning Tour
... 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. Materials: The Threat of AI and Technology to Immigrant Justice ...
February, 2025
Program Materials
... society, BIPOC and immigrant communities face the threat of biases and outright hostilities being encoded and ... Tsion Gurmu , Legal Director, Black Alliance for Just Immigration Rachel Levinson-Waldman , Managing Director, ... co-sponsor Co-sponsors registration Please register by 5pm PT on Tuesday, February 4th. Registration is also open ...
February 5, 2025
Webinar
... 38,000 men, women, and children wake up in the custody of the United States’ immigration detention system. This sprawling system has ... scattered throughout the country, often owned and run by private contractors, and many located in isolated rural ...
July 19, 2018
... old. This so-called “zero-tolerance” approach is part of a slate of policies the administration is using to curb legal immigration to the United States, including: enacting harsh ... The Florence Project Efrén C. Olivares, Racial Economic Justice Program Director, Texas Civil RIghts ...
June 27, 2018
Webinar
The risk of deportation has never been greater for immigrants, ... climate, understanding the deportation process and role of legal services providers is critical. Access to attorneys ... to helping immigrants navigate the complexities of our immigration laws—and often means the difference between ...
March, 2017
Factsheet
... run prison facilities all over the United States, as part of a federally mandated detention bed quota totaling $2.3 ... housed in prisons simply due to a justice system driven by perceived flight risk. In fact, while many political ... and philanthropic leaders as we explore the history of immigration detention in America, analyze reforms at the ...
March 30, 2017
Co-Sponsored Program
by Andrea Black and Joan Friedland INTRODUCTION The United ... border communities inside Mexico plagued by cartel and state violence, and is straining the capacity of these ... the public and policy makers, prevent the use of state resources in detaining asylum seekers, develop legal ...
March, 2019
Report
... Youth & Family Funders Roundtable Colorado Association of Funders Early Childhood Funders Collaborative EITC ... the form of welcoming or sanctuary policies—from state and local governments, with whom 70 to 85 percent of ... caught up in the removal process. In addition to state and city policies, community efforts such as ...
June 21, 2018
... Advocates’ Recommendations to Grantmakers,” prepared by our consultants, Andrea Black and Joan Freidland. Although ... i.e., staffing, convening opportunities, and other resources, to implement any plans that would be developed. ... and referrals between and among organizations. State and local organizations, particularly those ...
March, 2019
Issue Brief
... localized funding efforts; and identify next steps to move resources in the region. This series is open to interested ... America Working Group Felipe Navarro-Lux , Manager of Regional Initiatives, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies ... Photo : Moody College of Communication / Creative Commons . Regional Border ...
April 22, 2021
Partner Program
... reform efforts, real obstacles stand in the way of the U.S. mounting a robust humanitarian response. Fortunately, NGOs on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border have deep experience providing ... Program Officer, ICF Rini Chakraborty, Senior Director of Programs, Four Freedoms Fund Ben Coyle, Senior Director of ...
April 15, 2021
Partner Program
... went to Cambodia on a Listening Tour. The purpose of the trip was to meet with deportees, learn about their ... host a legal clinic to those interested in reopening their immigration cases. Upon meeting with deportees, we learned ... on January 15th, 2020.* Join this webinar sponsored by New Breath Foundation, where they will give a brief ...
January 30, 2020
Co-Sponsored Program
Description What happens after an immigrant is picked up by ICE? What government agencies are involved? And what ... 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