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In recent decades, detention and deportation have become the entirety of America’s immigration enforcement strategy. This will strike many, perhaps even ...
December 2, 2020
Commentary
... services organizations are working overtime at immigrant detention centers to identify parents who have been separated ... of policies the administration is using to curb legal immigration to the United States, including: enacting harsh ... the Children? Family Separation Becomes U.S. Immigration Enforcement Policy ...
June 27, 2018
Webinar
Immigration detention was dangerous before President Trump took office ... global pandemic—have only made the situation more dire. Immigration detention has expanded in the past decade, driven largely by ...
December 2, 2020
Commentary
... immigrant and refugee families to be separated. The detention of community members and the recent raid in ... are being separated from families as a result of interior enforcement operations. The administration also just ... Once immigrants and asylumseekers are placed in detention centers across the country, there is much less ...
May 17, 2018
Monthly Immigration Policy Call
... decision to halt prioritization of certain immigrants for enforcement, and instead treating all unauthorized or ... to 85 percent of deportation cases have originated in peak enforcement years, has dramatically reduced the number of ... report, Revving Up the Deportation Machinery: Enforcement under Trump and the Pushb ack , based on their ...
June 21, 2018
Monthly Immigration Policy Call
Resources from GCIR's 2022 National Convening workshop, "Black Immigrants and the Fight for Racial Justice."
May, 2022
Program Materials
... undertook an analysis of the capacity and needs of immigration legal service providers in California . We ... This 2022 report offers recommendations to strengthen immigration legal services in California, drawing on 20 ... organizations and 80 responses to an online survey of immigration legal service providers across the state. Key ...
May, 2022
Report
... barriers related to their or their family members’ immigration status, policies and programs that fall short of ... and executive actions—from the travel ban to ramped-up enforcement to weakened protections for unaccompanied ...
February, 2018
Funding Recommendations
... every corner of America. The President took a long failed immigration system and weaponized it. A campaign built on ... to transform and finally create the modern, humane immigration system that our nation deserves, I fear far too ... Biden has pledged to make critical changes to immigration enforcement and priorities across the country. Now more than ...
October, 2020
Analysis
Find all program-related materials for the " Federal Immigration Policy Scorecard and Playbook " webinar here, ... and video message from Sen. Padilla. Materials: Federal Immigration Policy Scorecard and Playbook ...
March, 2021
Program Materials
... and are experiencing the direct impact of new federal immigration policies. This has created a domino effect as ... calls for assistance and services. With an expansion of detention, deportation, and priorities for enforcement, limits on refugee admissions, attempts to create ...
May 23, 2017
Regional Briefing
... grantmakers, regardless of whether we specifically fund “immigration or refugee issues.” The expansion of immigration enforcement personnel, expedited deportation with no access ...
March 23, 2017
Regional Briefing
... ideas to correct these two major flaws—first, in the enforcement of violations of the immigration system and then, in the implementation of a less restrictive and more flexible legal immigration system. Its central theme is that these two ...
November, 2020
Analysis
... important funding space. Funders Guide: Grants and Immigration Status ...
January, 2015
Issue Brief
... to social safety net programs, and rely far less on detention to ensure that immigrants show up for court ... below. Progressives are getting ready to push Biden on immigration reform ...
December 11, 2020
News Article
June 18, 2020
News Article
President-elect Biden has promised a new course on immigration policy in his Administration. The challenges ... but so are the opportunities to reaffirm the importance of immigration to American society, American culture, and the ... of our legal immigration system, and sensible immigration enforcement priorities focused on public safety — but we ...
November, 2020
Issue Brief
... administration’s focus on restrictive and punitive U.S. immigration policies are likely to drive a greater number of ... and others into the hands of human traffickers. Those same enforcement policies may also lead fewer victims to turn to ... Keroyama / Creative Commons Human Trafficking in the New Immigration Landscape and Philanthropy's Role ...
April 12, 2017
Webinar
... the implications of the executive order? Why do many law enforcement leaders disagree with the administration's effort ... Photo : Anthony Quintano / Creative Commons Monthly Immigration Policy Calls: Perspectives on Sanctuary Policies ...
February 16, 2017
Monthly Immigration Policy Call
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar "Capitalizing on the Courts: Litigation for Immigrant Justice" here, including the session recording and transcription of the meeting.
August, 2023
Program Materials