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... Detention Roughly 71 percent of immigrants held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on any given day ... Fifth Third Bank, and, most recently, PNC Bank . Moreover, US Bancorp has said it plans to exit the sector and ... 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
... 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
Racial capitalism is one of the major factors that inflicts harm upon – and withholds power and resources from – people and communities who seek to stay, move freely, work, transform, and thrive. GCIR is focused on moving money and power to immigrant, refugee, and asylum seeker communities and movement groups. Understanding the proportion of philanthropic dollars that go to the immigrant justice movement is crucial to this advocacy. The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) has documented the state of philanthropic funding for immigrant and refugee communities, and offers crucial recommendations for grantmakers who hope to liberate philanthropic assets in support of these communities.
December 1, 2022
Webinar
... left out. Here are some food resources that do not take immigration status into account. “Grab and Go” School ... or online, and issuing benefits remotely. To learn more about these and other available flexibilities visit CFPA’s ... workers, janitors, truck drivers, and port workers helping us put food on our tables, and they deserve the same ...
April 3, 2020
News Article
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar "Collective Liberation: Disability and Immigrant Justice" here, including the session recording and transcription of the meeting.
March, 2024
Program Materials
... to learn from three organizers and movement builders about how they are fighting back against discrimination and ...
October 18, 2022
Webinar
Description Join us for a highlight of clips and discussion of Episode 4 of the immediately acclaimed Netflix docuseries Immigration Nation with filmmakers Shaul Schwarz and ... and the power of film to shift narrative and culture. About Resilience Force: Disasters are now a fact of life in ...
August 18, 2020
Webinar
... immigrant families in response to restrictive federal immigration and safety net policies, but policies like the ... interviews also illustrated confusion and misunderstanding about the rule, including about who it applies to and when it ... were the most trusted source (67.9 percent), followed by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (63.3 percent), state ...
May, 2020
Issue Brief
This five-page brief provides analysis and recommendations that apply to any states that have experienced a natural disaster.
November, 2017
Funding Recommendations
... of Immigrant Women on America's Labor Force , American Immigration Council, March 8, 2017. Economic and Tax ... Florida and Colorado Back Bridge Act , Illinois Business Immigration Coalition, undated. Local CEOs fight Trump's immigration plan, Chicago Tribune , January 20, 2017. Chicago ...
March 16, 2017
... have severely limited mobility, longer-standing questions about how best to manage regional migration remain as ...
November, 2020
Report
... as well as legal services to seek asylum or appear for immigration court. According to the administration, hundreds ... and what we might expect in the coming months. Join us to stay abreast of this developing situation and learn ...
August 16, 2018
Program Materials
May 12, 2022
... enables all law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration law. In Washington, the president established a ... voter-fraud claims and appointed a prominent anti-immigration activist Kris Kobach as vice chair. And on May ... Workers Defense Project Tom Jawetz , Vice President, Immigration, Center for American Progress Aryah Somers ...
May 18, 2017
... providers, policy makers, and other stakeholders to learn about immigrant integration resources in the Bay Area, followed by a discussion about strategies to ensure immigrants' access to services in ...
October 11, 2019
Co-Sponsored Program
October, 2016
Factsheet, Issue Brief
May 10, 2022
... to alternatives to incarceration for immigrants. Join us to learn more about the intersections between criminal justice and immigration systems, how the criminal justice reform and ...
May 2, 2017
Webinar
For many of us, it would be inconceivable to go through life without a ... for families and businesses. It also can limit access to immigration-benefit programs such as DACA or citizenship ... together 130 people from across the country to learn about each other’s work on economic integration and dispel ...
February 17, 2017
Commentary