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... laid the groundwork for a project to examine immigration enforcement and detention in the context of criminalization ... Daranee Petsod President GCIR President's Q3 Update, 2018 ...
July 31, 2018
President's Message
In recent decades, detention and deportation have become the entirety of America’s immigration enforcement strategy. This will strike many, perhaps even ... and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) mass detention and deportation strategy is, in fact, both a sharp break from ...
December 2, 2020
Commentary
*/ /*--> */ *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Final Report: Summaries and Highlights Hello and welcome to the ... its presence for its community.” – Liza Diniakos, Program Manager for MICOP’s Immigration Legal Assistance Program (MILA) Provide unaccompanied youth with mental health ...
January 22, 2024
Response Fund
... and advocating with officials to demand an end to the deportation flights. The American Civil Liberties Union and ... for Afghans and Haitians in Crisis . Halting the Inhumane Deportation of Haitian Asylum Seekers ...
October 7, 2021
Issue Spotlight
... valuable content and timely insights: it gave us hope. The program showcased the heroic work being done in Arkansas, ... hold up vital sectors of the economy, while the threat of deportation looms "You need us." This is the message we heard ... marked by increased and intensified Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids – both undocumented workers and ...
April 10, 2025
Blog Post
... his administration will move to fully restore an Obama-era program that shields 640,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation, halting Mr. Trump's unsuccessful efforts to ...
November 11, 2020
News Article
... American Civil Rights and the Law for an undergraduate program. While AAPI communities have long been a part of the ...
April 6, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature
... on the door in fear that it was Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). I shared the difficulty I had finding a ...
January 10, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature
... that have fed both the carceral state and the deportation apparatus. Through that shared commitment to ... I am in great company. Board Feature: Nahir Torres, Senior Program Officer, The Hyams Foundation ...
February 8, 2023
GCIR Board Feature
... Society Foundations (OSF), where she currently serves as a program officer focused on immigrant and refugee rights and ... play a critical strategic leadership role in three areas: program and policy strategy and development, funder education ...
April 14, 2021
Press Release
What do we hope to accomplish? What will success look like? What will it take to get there? These are some of the questions I grapple with as GCIR’s Programs Learning Manager. My position is new, reflecting the organization’s commitment to proactive learning throughout our work. In a nutshell, I aim to support the team in building evaluative capacity, including through the design (and constant iteration) of ways of working that make it easy for people to engage meaningfully in learning processes.
April 6, 2023
GCIR Staff Feature
As a native-born U.S. citizen working in the movement for immigrant justice, I often reflect on what brought me to this work out of the many social justice issues that demand our attention. Navigating the immigration system alongside my wife who immigrated from Albania to pursue her dreams of a better future opened my eyes to the complex and often challenging immigrant experience in America.
July 13, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature
... the New York City COVID-19 Immigrant Emergency Relief program, reaffirming the City’s commitment to ensure all ... We hope to build on the Immigrant Emergency Relief Fund Program in New York City and we urge our state and federal ... New York City COVID-19 Immigrant Emergency Relief Program with Open Society Foundations ...
April 16, 2020
Response Fund
June 18, 2020
News Article
... employer- and family-centered system with a points-based program , awarding immigrants points for criteria such as age ... then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued an edict in 2018 that severely restricted asylum for victims of ... be subject to endless harassment, indentured servitude or deportation. This requires fixing the many problems that ...
November 10, 2020
News Article
... but a recent estimate based on data derived from the 2018 American Community Survey (ACS) puts it at around 10.6 ... contribute a substantial amount to the old-age retirement program, according to the IRS. A net total of $12 billion ... workers are facing economic ruin and how fear of deportation is suppressing access to necessary COVID-19 ...
April 16, 2020
News Article
... risk for COVID-19 infection while they await potential deportation. Amid these tensions, many of our immigrant ... 18th, allows states to implement Pandemic EBT. Under the program, families whose children are eligible to receive free ... secured, and that immigrants feel safe from immigration enforcement when receiving food services. Questions? ...
April 3, 2020
News Article
... new applicants who are eligible under the terms of the program, including 55,500 of the youngest DACA-eligible ... in the United States as children have held protection from deportation and work authorization with DACA. Under DACA’s ... 825,000 immigrants have held DACA at some point during the program’s existence, that leaves approximately 300,000 ...
July 13, 2020
News Article