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... they serve. Indeed, the potential for significant federal immigration relief—and the implementation of such relief at ... invest in California with a better understanding of the immigration legal services landscape and to maximize ... to ensure that society functions. Infrastructure is also about being in “right relationship” with each other—in ...
May 26, 2021
President's Message
... the past two decades. We are currently reading articles about the connections between Black liberation and immigrant ...
June 29, 2023
President's Message
... for the first time, in front of 300 people. I told them about coming to the United States, growing up undocumented, ... whenever someone knocked on the door in fear that it was Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). I shared the ...
January 10, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature
... will be eligible for assistance regardless of their immigration or documentation status — offering a lifeline ... $275,000 to provide free guidance in multiple languages about how to access relief options and contact mortgage ... a mere few months, we’re going to be making decisions about laying off our own staff in an effort to put money out ...
April 3, 2020
Response Fund
... color, women, and girls can truly thrive. Please tell us about yourself and yo ur organization. Lian Cheun ... or vote. In 2020, KGA called voters to educate them about a ballot measure that would institutionalize funding ... Interview Pull quote 1.png Finally, when we win, we think about the implementation piece as an opportunity for ...
July 12, 2021
GCIR Blog Series
... whose marginalization exists in the intersection of immigration and poverty. Immigrant families have been ...
June 5, 2020
Response Fund
... deploy resources needed to protect our democracy and bring about equity and justice for all. — Team GCIR Foundation ... must assert truth. We must force each other to be honest about the growing threats to our country.” The Pittsburgh ...
August 10, 2017
Statement
... for Families Fund, also launched today. To learn more about the Fund, visit www.gcir.org/CADignityFund . Led by ... to deploy nearly $80 million to build local capacity for immigration legal services, advocacy, and organizing. GCIR ...
May 14, 2021
Press Release
... November, I thought I knew everything I needed to know about getting ready for this opportunity. GCIR had hired an ...
December 7, 2021
President's Message
... directly with policy-makers and discuss the most pressing immigration issues of our time. The gathering was part ... of what folks in different offices are thinking about immigration.” The topics under discussion included key ...
April 11, 2024
Blog Post
... across the country, and it’s estimated that about half are undocumented . In the most recent economic ... leave, among other benefits. Farmworkers on average earn about $10.60 per hour and have a median annual income between ... near her home in Delano, Susana stopped working about a month ago out of fear that she would get COVID-19. ...
April 4, 2020
News Article
... asylum backlog is nearly 670,000 cases, which will take about 4.5 years to process, far longer than the two-year ...
October 6, 2022
Issue Spotlight
... when immigrant communities were already threatened by anti-immigration policies like public charge. UndocuFund ...
April 10, 2020
Response Fund
... and those living in close quarters. They are concerned about community health, and they are also concerned about the potential for working families to face economic ...
March 18, 2020
Response Fund
... out the count’—it would be almost impossible to think about how to get this ship back on course, given the ... the importance of accurate messaging—right now—about what the census covers and how it’s used. There’s ... of us with secure internet access, the online option takes about five minutes, and over-the-phone options are available ...
April 9, 2020
Commentary
... filed a change to a long-standing tenet of federal immigration law that will endanger the health and well-being ...
December 6, 2018
Statement
... To get us started, we'd love to learn more about you, your organization, and the communities that you ... to me – it’s personal. When I first learned about the United Farm Workers and our rights in the ... understood how much we had been exploited. I learned about the importance of organizing and the power of having ...
December 7, 2023
GCIR Blog Series
Make the Road New York's COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund will provide direct support to our most vulnerable workers and low-income immigrant families, and to organize to ensure they are not left out of government solutions.
April 24, 2020
Response Fund
We at GCIR are heartbroken about the devastating crises unfolding in Afghanistan and ...
August 19, 2021
Statement
... All eligible individuals are encouraged to consult with an immigration attorney to apply for, or renew, their DACA ... Advocacy Clinic (WIRAC) at Yale Law School, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), and lawyers at MRNY. The ... and deporting thousands, to severely restricting lawful immigration, to militarizing the border. At the insistence of ...
June 18, 2020
Press Release