... many of the Trump administration’s racist and draconian immigration policies , including fortifying Deferred Action ... to immigrant communities. Read our analysis below to learn about the work ahead of us and how philanthropy can help our ... Enforcement Background Under the Trump administration, immigration officials had broad enforcement authority, ...
January 24, 2022
Commentary
... (She requested KQED not use her real name because of her immigration status and to call her Patricia instead.) The $2 ... insurance are available to workers regardless of their immigration status. But those benefits don’t help the vast ... and results in massive layoffs, workers who lack legal immigration status are particularly vulnerable, said Derek ...
March 31, 2020
News Article
... the Census. Connect with your regional association to ask about local efforts and how you can get involved. Reach out ... efforts and remain connected on all things Census. Learn about how the philanthropic community is taking action and ...
April 1, 2020
Statement
... to author their own experience, and narrative power is about building agency and self-determination. GCIR has made ... invite funders to join us in our own political education about forced displacement, as we seek to understand better ... webinar early next year for funders who want to learn more about the global systems shaping forced migration. These ...
November 13, 2023
President's Message
June 18, 2020
News Article
... commitment to ensure all New Yorkers, regardless of immigration status, are included in citywide COVID-19 ... York City is home to 3.1 million immigrants who comprise about 37 percent of the City’s population and 44 percent of ... including the undocumented population, contributed about $232 billion to the City’s GDP. Among the one million ...
April 16, 2020
Response Fund
... and refugees, can thrive. We’ve heard loud and clear about several areas where immediate action is needed: ...
April 30, 2020
Response Fund
America needs a 21st-century immigration system that advances the economic, security, and ... contributions to our society. It must encourage legal immigration and its significant benefits to the American ... the economic interests of those already here. A working immigration system can help unite our country through our ...
November 11, 2020
Commentary
... help our immigrant friends, neighbors, and coworkers whose immigration status puts them in danger of hunger, ...
April 15, 2020
Response Fund
Before COVID-19 hit, President Trump was abusing immigration powers delegated to him by Congress to such an ... pandemic hit, a blizzard of executive actions buried the immigration statutes that now exist only on paper. The president has wholly replaced the normally operating immigration system that Congress crafted over the past seven ...
December 2, 2020
Commentary
... economic crisis, and record climate disasters. On the immigration front, he will face the task of undoing four years of polarizing rhetoric and draconian immigration policies, including more than 500 administrative ... and executive actions that have severely restricted immigration as part of a far-reaching white nationalist ...
November 10, 2020
Statement
... race, religion, sexual orientation, gender expression, immigration status, and national origin. The recently issued immigration executive orders compromise our nation’s ... additional challenges in the weeks and months ahead on the immigration front, including expanded detention and ...
February 6, 2017
Statement
An emergency assistance fund for immigrant & undocumented workers in South Florida.
May 4, 2020
Response Fund
Immigration detention was dangerous before President Trump ... global pandemic—have only made the situation more dire. Immigration detention has expanded in the past decade, driven ... mountains of evidence that reveal the dark reality of immigration detention, rife with coercion, physical abuse, ...
December 2, 2020
Commentary
... and deportation have become the entirety of America’s immigration enforcement strategy. This will strike many, ... and inevitable. How else is the nation to enforce its immigration laws? But U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) mass detention ...
December 2, 2020
Commentary
This article is part of the Moving Forward on Immigration series that explores the future of immigration in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential ... election. President-elect Joe Biden’s plan on immigration stands in stark contrast to the xenophobic agenda ...
December 2, 2020
Commentary
If you’re an immigrant in Washington State experiencing hard times because of COVID-19, and you aren’t eligible for federal financial relief or unemployment insurance, this fund is for you.
October 1, 2020
Response Fund
... below. Progressives are getting ready to push Biden on immigration reform ...
December 11, 2020
News Article
The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan is joining with Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees and The Kresge Foundation to create the Southeast Michigan Immigrant and Refugee Funder Collaborative, which seeks to address a needs gap of the immigrant and refugee population in the region.
September 6, 2019
Press Release
Please contribute to a relief fund for immigrants in the Rio Grande Valley who are unemployed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and who urgently need to meet certain obligations (rent, utility bills, mortgage loans, etc).
May 4, 2020
Response Fund