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Philanthropy plays an important role in addressing the needs and lifting up the challenges facing our country’s diverse population of newcomers. This flowchart addresses some common concerns and questions about investing in this dynamic and critically important funding space.
This two-page document considers different avenues for funders to respond to the changing policy landscape and support children in immigrant families.
This report explores the diversity of states' and localities' approaches for working with children in immigrant families who are in the child welfare system.
CHART: The Gov’s budget proposal: What changed?
This four-page timeline summarizes immigrant and refugee policy developments and philanthropic responses from 1990 to 2020.
Relentless policy attacks, particularly over the past three years, have put pro-immigrant stakeholders, including funders, on the defensive. Since November 2016, many in philanthropy have allocated significant rapid-response funding to mitigate the impact of this ruthless anti-immigrant onslaught. Philanthropic pushback has been critical to addressing humanitarian needs and has laid the groundwork for long-term efforts to dismantle structural injustices.
On June 18, 2020 the U.S. Supreme Court sided with DACA recipients ruling that the way in which the Trump administration rescinded the DACA program in 2017 was unlawful. The decision is a huge victory for immigrant communities and their allies who mobilized to protect the DACA program.
Even as the coronavirus sickens Americans by the tens of thousands—and roughly 29,000 DACA recipients risk their lives as healthcare workers—the Supreme Court may still render a decision on the Administration’s ability to terminate Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
This report, a collaboration between the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) and the University of San Francisco, compiles the most egregious policies attacking immigrants and asylum seekers.
The 4th installment of the Tearing America Apart series is a prospective look at what the next four years could look like following the Nov. 3rd election, written by FWD.us President Todd Schulte.
In the Immigrant Legal Resource Center’s Blueprint for the Next Administration, they identify policies that must immediately be addressed, calling on the next administration to not only restore what has been lost over the past four years but also for a new way forward toward dignity and justice.
This policy brief outlines some of the incoming administration’s top immigration priorities and examines challenges and opportunities ahead. Drawing on existing and forthcoming policy ideas from MPI’s Rethinking U.S. Immigration Policy initiative, the brief sketches several proposals that could begin to shape a U.S. immigration system that advances the national interest going forward.
President-elect Biden has promised a new course on immigration policy in his Administration. The challenges before him and his Administration will be many, but so are the opportunities to reaffirm the importance of immigration to American society, American culture, and the American economy.
AILA issues comprehensive recommendations calling upon President-Elect Joe Biden to implement a powerful new vision for immigration.
The U.S. immigration system is inflexible and restrictive. Adopting the reforms outlined in this compilation would allow the system to respond to future challenges and opportunities without requiring repeated congressional actions to correct its mistakes.
Recommendations from the Immigrant Advocates Response Collaborative on steps the incoming Biden Administration can take to counteract the harmful policies put in place by the Trump Administration
Led by the Immigration Hub and America’s Voice, more than 100 organizations have worked together over a period of 9 months to develop detailed policy prescriptives, instructions for implementation, and a clear vision of our expectations. The 2021 Immigration Action Plan is a preview of our collective efforts. It identifies 10 actions with specific steps to both reverse the racism and damage of the Trump years and discard the longstanding harsh criminalization and deportation policies that have defined many past administrations.
The Migrant Justice Platform is a roadmap of Executive and Legislative actions from grassroots voices across the United States and abroad that parts ways from the “single-bill” strategy that has defined immigration politics for two decades. It is a unity blueprint intended as a launching point for an open-source effort that centers grassroots voices on various aspects of immigration reform.
Collection of essays and policy proposals around immigration reform put forth by the Niskanen Center.