... American Civil Rights and the Law for an undergraduate program. While AAPI communities have long been a part of the ...
April 6, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature
As a native-born U.S. citizen working in the movement for immigrant justice, I often reflect on what brought me to this work out of the many social justice issues that demand our attention. Navigating the immigration system alongside my wife who immigrated from Albania to pursue her dreams of a better future opened my eyes to the complex and often challenging immigrant experience in America.
July 13, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature
... I am in great company. Board Feature: Nahir Torres, Senior Program Officer, The Hyams Foundation ...
February 8, 2023
GCIR Board Feature
... employer- and family-centered system with a points-based program , awarding immigrants points for criteria such as age ... U.S. border under Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” program — whose official, more Orwellian name is ... effort to terminate the popular “dreamers” program protecting unauthorized immigrants brought to the ...
November 10, 2020
News Article
June 18, 2020
News Article
June 18, 2020
News Article
... all of these strategies. Here at GCIR we are hosting a program on strengthening the immigration legal services ...
July 14, 2022
Issue Spotlight
... to allow the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to continue. The Court found that the Trump administration’s decision to terminate the program was “arbitrary and capricious” under the ... to continue to receive the protections and benefits of the program. The ruling culminates a years-long legal battle ...
June 18, 2020
Commentary
Progressive Democrats in Congress are calling for President-elect Joe Biden to dismantle the federal government’s deportation machine, broaden immigrants’ access to social safety net programs, and rely far less on detention to ensure that immigrants show up for court hearings.
December 11, 2020
News Article
... his administration will move to fully restore an Obama-era program that shields 640,000 undocumented immigrants who were ...
November 11, 2020
News Article
... also returns DACA to its initial form and reopens the DACA program to new applicants. All eligible individuals are ... the Trump administration’s callous attempt to revoke a program as important for communities across the United States ...
June 18, 2020
Press Release
With the federal administration set to end the use of public health law Title 42 as an expulsion tool to deny would-be asylum seekers entry into the United States (a policy deemed unconstitutional by a federal court late last year) tomorrow, it is widely expected that a significant number of individuals and families will enter the U.S. through the southern border in search of refuge. Therefore, GCIR is calling on philanthropy to resource immediate and long term responses to the humanitarian needs of migrants.
May 11, 2023
Statement
... States since 2014 through the Special Immigrant Visa program, and an estimated 18,000 Afghan allies and 53,000 ... refugees , including the International Refugee Assistance Program , We Are All America , and Partnership for the ... GCIR resources to inform your response , including our program and resources on Black immigrant leadership and our ...
August 19, 2021
Statement
The Second Quarterly President's Message from Marissa Tirona, GCIR President.
May 26, 2021
President's Message
... evacuated to the U.S. through the humanitarian parole (HP) program, a temporary relief mechanism designed to provide ... and protection they so urgently need. Rana Elmir is the Program Director of the RISE Together Fund at the Proteus ...
March 18, 2024
Commentary
... a learning curve,” said Martina Leake, who is a program associate at Maine Initiatives. “But it was really ... Arrivals (DACA), the 287(g) immigration enforcement program, and more. And with the highly-anticipated 2024 ...
April 11, 2024
Blog Post
... In December, Mexico reluctantly agreed to restart the program after the U.S. government agreed to provide vaccines ... other vulnerable asylum seekers are not included in the program. In response to a surge of migrants at the border in ...
January 24, 2022
Commentary
... newly arriving Afghans and Haitians,” said Dan Torres, Program Director for Immigrant Rights at the Evelyn and ... address these urgent needs,” said Rosie Arroyo, Senior Program Officer at the California Community Foundation and ...
October 6, 2021
Press Release
... long-term funding and resources to build out a structured program with concrete goals.” If funders are not able to ...
February 27, 2023
Response Fund