Immigration Enforcement & Detention

Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar "The Threat of AI and Technology to Immigrant Justice" here, including the session recording, transcription of the webinar, and relevant links.
February 2025
Program Materials
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Find all program-related materials for GCIR's "Strategies for Resisting Immigration Detention in Rural America" webinar here, including the session recording and PowerPoint.
A tractor drives across a rural field.
January 2023
Program Materials
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Foundations can demonstrate their values and support immigrants and their communities by joining the movement to divest and reinvest.
The logos of Candide Group, Confluence Philanthropy, Edward W. Hazen Foundation, Freedom to Thrive, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, and Real Money Moves. Accompanies the joint issue brief, How to Divest from Immigrant Detention: A Philanthropic Primer.
August 2019
Funding Recommendations, Issue Brief
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This brief analyzes challenges being erected at every stage of the U.S. asylum process and the key leverage points for philanthropy.
Dismantling of the U.S. Asylum System and Points of Leverage for Philanthropy
March 2019
Issue Brief
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This memorandum synthesizes interviews with key advocate stakeholders to identify the current challenges facing the U.S. asylum system, asylum seekers, and advocates for asylum seekers, and strategic leverage points and funding opportunities for grantmakers.
March 2019
Report
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This issue brief offers updated data and analysis on the Forum's 2013 report, The Math of Immigration Detention.
The Math of Immigration Detention, 2018 Update: Costs Continue to Multiply
May 2018
Issue Brief
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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
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