... (NGOs) in providing a humane and effective alternative to detention and surveillance. Through humanitarian relief, ... they are released from federal care and reunited with family or placed with a sponsor in California. This reduces ...
October 6, 2021
Press Release
Immigration detention was dangerous before President Trump took office ... only made the situation more dire. Immigration detention has expanded in the past decade, driven largely by ... of evidence that reveal the dark reality of immigration detention, rife with coercion, physical abuse, and due ...
December 2, 2020
Commentary
New York Times article outlining the Biden Administration's stance on immigration.
November 15, 2020
News Article
... the recent deadly fire at an overcrowded immigrant detention facility in Ciudad Juárez, and the deployment of ... test ), to the overtly racist ( Muslim Ban ) and cruel ( family separation ). Beginning in 2020, our nation largely shut ...
May 11, 2023
Statement
... impact on Lincoln Mondy , a Program Officer at the Andrus Family Fund . He joined Ivy O. Suriyopas , GCIR's Vice ... who were talking about no one wants to have to leave their family, to leave the only life they know, leave the region, ... to do that. I think that is also a connection I see in the family policing space where a lot of cases revolve around ...
June 3, 2024
Blog Post
... to social safety net programs, and rely far less on detention to ensure that immigrants show up for court ...
December 11, 2020
News Article
... would have replaced the country’s current employer- and family-centered system with a points-based program , ... amid the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” family-separations policy for asylum-seekers; the abrupt ... outrage, for instance, the administration scaled back family separations . So, Trump officials simultaneously ...
November 10, 2020
News Article
June 18, 2020
News Article
... more effective legal services (including alternatives to detention) when their clients are no longer in crisis mode. ... on a long-term basis. Guided by their principles of family unity and continuity, Al Otro Lado helps clients with ...
February 27, 2023
Response Fund
The Second Quarterly President's Message from Marissa Tirona, GCIR President.
May 26, 2021
President's Message
In recent decades, detention and deportation have become the entirety of ... U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) mass detention and deportation strategy is, in fact, both a sharp ...
December 2, 2020
Commentary
... program, and an estimated 18,000 Afghan allies and 53,000 family members remain in the processing backlog. As the ...
August 19, 2021
Statement
For the second year in a row, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees led a delegation to the nation’s capital to meet directly with policy-makers and discuss the most pressing immigration issues of our time.
April 11, 2024
Blog Post
... partners. As Stephanie Martinez of the Peter E. Haas Jr. Family Fund put it, funders must use their “privilege and ...
March 18, 2024
Commentary
When you are a Black child in Africa, often the narrative is that our dreams are not valid. However, I am a Zambian who was born and raised on the Continent and was exposed to a multitude of experiences ranging from extreme poverty to traveling to several countries before I turned ten, while also being fortunate enough to play with school friends who came from all over the world. These experiences were critical to instilling confidence in me that my dreams were indeed valid and – even though it is perceived that the Western world and global north holds all the power and resources – what we as Africans had was in fact enough to be happy. However, when I moved to America, those common perceptions started to feel very real, while the dreams seemed nearly impossible.
November 9, 2023
GCIR Board Feature
GCIR's Amplify series features interviews with immigrant justice field leaders to showcase their work and provide a platform for their perspectives. In this edition, GCIR President Marissa Tirona hosts our very first Amplify podcast episode! She speaks with Paco de Onís and Pamela Yates, who co-founded Skylight Pictures, a nonprofit human rights media organization.
May 30, 2024
GCIR Blog Series
A week ago, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees issued a powerful joint statement calling on funders to take a stand against President Trump’s executive orders on immigrants and refugees.
February 15, 2017
Philanthropic News
June 18, 2020
News Article
... leaders, and others to pass and defend the Work and Family Mobility Act this year . That bill, importantly, gives ...
February 8, 2023
GCIR Board Feature