Immigration Enforcement & Detention

May 2020
Resource
Report
Artwork showing white guard who is filling out a form while a black man is fed through a machine, out of which flies dollar bills. The work is by James "Yaya" Hough, State Correctional Institution, Phoenix, PA, and titled, I am the Economy.
The Prison Industrial Complex: Mapping Private Sector Players
This report exposes roughly 4,000 corporations that profit from the devastating mass incarceration of our nation’s marginalized communities.
Source: Worth Rises
June 2019
Program
Webinar
A Primer on Divesting from Immigrant Detention
A Primer on Divesting from Immigrant Detention
Join us for a “how to” conversation on how foundations can divest from the prison industrial complex.
June 2019
Program
Webinar
Shows a hundreds of people with signs and flags crowded onto a street in Washington, DC, in a protest against the Muslim ban. The Capitol building can be seen in the center distance. Posted to accompany GCIR's webinar, Movement Lawyering: Reimagining Lawyering before the Immigration System.
Movement Lawyering: Reimagining Lawyering before the Immigration System
Join us for an interactive webinar with two key thought leaders who will explore movement lawyering and how we might engage with this strategy in the current moment.
May 2019
Program
Monthly Immigration Policy Call
First Responders at the Border: The Vital Role and Untapped Potential of a Reception System for Families and Asylum Seekers
First Responders at the Border: The Vital Role and Untapped Potential of a Reception System for Families and Asylum Seekers
This GCIR webinar will be a virtual roundtable of organizations working along the border and litigating the key issues arising for families seeking asylum.
May 2019
News
Press Release
Border Network for Human Rights logo, featuring their logo above a silhouette of a mountain range. Posted to accompany their press release, Sixth Migrant Child Dies in Trump Administration Custody.
Sixth Migrant Child Dies in Trump Administration Custody
Border communities demand lasting accountability from CBP and ICE about these deaths and short-term holding conditions at U.S.-Mexico border.
Source: Border Network for Human Rights
May 2019
Program
Co-Sponsored Program
Shows the New York Community Trust logo above The Fund for New Citizens logo. The fund is the organizer of Federal Border Policy & What it Means for Our City’s Immigrants.
Federal Border Policy & What it Means for Our City’s Immigrants
Source: The Fund for New Citizens in the New York Community Trust
May 2019
Resource
Toolkit
Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition's logo, which features their name on the right with a red, yellow, green, and black globe with white stars. Posted to accompany TIRRC's resource, Lessons from East Tennessee: A Toolkit for Organizations Responding to Mass Worksite Immigration Raids.
Lessons from East Tennessee: A Toolkit for Organizations Responding to Mass Worksite Immigration Raids
This guide is meant to serve as an emergency toolkit that advocates can reference to respond the moment ICE conducts a worksite raid in their community.
Source: Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition
May 2019
Resource
Report
American Federation of Teachers logo, featuring their name on the right with a blue badge with their acronym, AFT, in white letters on the left. Posted to accompany their report, Private Prisons and Investment Risks.
Private Prisons and Investment Risks: How Private Prison Companies Fuel Mass Incarceration--and How Public Pension Funds Are at Risk
Learn how investments in private prisons put retirement savings at risk, and how you and your institution can hold these companies accountable.
Source: American Federation of Teachers
April 2019
Resource
Program Materials
Materials: Through the Eyes of Children
Materials: Through the Eyes of Children
This webinar will delve deeper into how family separation has been experienced by and through the eyes of children, and how those working closest with children are working to give voice to their trauma and create accountability for harm.
April 2019
Resource
Report
A Better Way: Community-Based Programming as an Alternative to Immigrant Incarceration
Source: National Immigrant Justice Center

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