... has exploded, rising 442 percent between 2000 and 2016. The total number of immigrant detainees is also ... and guards than public prisons, according to a major 2016 Department of Justice report . Private detention ...
August, 2019
Funding Recommendations, Issue Brief
This factsheet provides a brief overview of the deportation process and how legal services providers are striving to provide immigrants and refugees with access to affordable, qualified legal services.
March, 2017
Factsheet
... detaining people in rural areas far from legal resources. In this webinar session – a part of GCIR’s ...
January 25, 2023
Webinar
... localized funding efforts; and identify next steps to move resources in the region. This series is open to interested ...
April 22, 2021
Partner Program
Join Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) and Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP) for a special two-part series with experts from the field on understanding the challenges and opportunities along the southern border, with an emphasis on the role philanthropy can play at this critical stage.
April 15, 2021
Partner Program
In the first eight months of the Trump administration, arrests and deportations of immigrants rose 40 percent versus the year before. Yet it may not last. A new report from Migration Policy Institute finds it is “unlikely” the current level of removals will continue.
June 21, 2018
Monthly Immigration Policy Call
... [2] EROSION OF THE U.S. ASYLUM PROCESS Since January 2016, stakeholders indicated that the U.S. asylum system has ... the public and policy makers, prevent the use of state resources in detaining asylum seekers, develop legal ... https://www.strausscenter.org/images/MSI/AsylumReport_MSI.pdf [5] While each side along with outside parties are, in ...
March, 2019
Report
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's "Strategies for Resisting Immigration Detention in Rural America" webinar here, including the session recording and PowerPoint.
January, 2023
Program Materials
This two-day event began with a funders’ briefing in Harlingen, followed by site visits to key destinations in the Rio Grande Valley.
June 5, 2017
Learning Tour
... i.e., staffing, convening opportunities, and other resources, to implement any plans that would be developed. ... partnerships across geographical lines, and have access to resources developed by national groups, particularly in areas ... policy makers and the general public; ensure that state resources are not utilized to detain asylum seekers; put in ...
March, 2019
Issue Brief