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... services organizations are working overtime at immigrant detention centers to identify parents who have been separated ... of Programs, GCIR Speakers Manoj Govindaiah, Director of Family Detention, RAICES Laura St. John, Legal Director, ... Photo : ybs / CC Where Are the Children? Family Separation Becomes U.S. Immigration Enforcement Policy ...
June 27, 2018
Webinar
... wake up in the custody of the United States’ immigration detention system. This sprawling system has facilities ... in this area. The program will also include an update on family separation and detention. Speakers Ruthie Epstein , Senior ...
July 19, 2018
Monthly Immigration Policy Call
... over the United States, as part of a federally mandated detention bed quota totaling $2.3 billion. They spend months, ... justice system without a hearing or any news on when their detention might end. The vast majority of detainees are ... leaders as we explore the history of immigration detention in America, analyze reforms at the local and ...
March 30, 2017
Co-Sponsored Program
... reviving rural America, yet the prevalence of immigration detention centers continues to create fear and harm in ... series on rural power building – we will explore how detention in rural areas is harming communities; challenges ... are confronting the harmful impacts of immigration detention on communities across the country. We invite you to ...
January 25, 2023
Webinar
... reinvestment, and other measures. Context Immigrant Detention Roughly 71 percent of immigrants held by ... it incarcerates. At least 22 immigrants have died in ICE detention centers over the past two years, and more than 188 ... to a major 2016 Department of Justice report . Private detention facilities generate 175% more grievance filings ...
August, 2019
Funding Recommendations, Issue Brief
... materials for GCIR's "Strategies for Resisting Immigration Detention in Rural America" webinar here, including the ... Materials: Strategies for Resisting Immigration Detention in Rural America ...
January, 2023
Program Materials
... this update to their 2013 report, The Math of immigration Detention , the National Immigration Forum shows that since ... both the number of people held in immigration detention and the cost of detaining each one have increased. ... updated data regarding federal spending on immigration detention and analyzes the failure of the federal government ...
May, 2018
Issue Brief
... between gaining or maintaining lawful status and permanent separation from family and community. This factsheet provides a brief ...
March, 2017
Factsheet
... entry, seldom applied to asylum seekers, leading to forced family separation and limitations on access to asylum. USCIS applies ... recognized domestic violence as a ground for asylum. 4 In Detention DHS ramps up detention for asylum seekers even ...
March, 2019
Issue Brief
... numbers because of these policies, particularly prolonged detention. Prolonged detention in prison-settings exacerbate ... the length of detention for asylum seekers and expand family detention as deterrence. Continue efforts to overturn ... Belong Together, which was formed to respond to the family separation crisis, and individual case campaigns have had. ...
March, 2019
Report
... have increased by 279% since 2017, resulting in the separation of over 800 Cambodian refugee families. While some ...
January 30, 2020
Co-Sponsored Program
... During the learning tour, participants will visit a detention center where immigrants are being held for removal ...
June 5, 2017
Learning Tour
... What government agencies are involved? And what happens in detention—or if an immigrant is released? Join this ... system, from apprehension and initial processing to detention and defense. Our panel of experts will cover cases ... statuses, consider broader trends in enforcement and detention policy and practice, and review how the legal ...
September 12, 2018
Regional Briefing
... Coyle, Senior Director of Institutional Giving, Jewish Family Service of San Diego Chamiza Pacheco de ...
April 15, 2021
Partner Program
Co-sponsors Children, Youth & Family Funders Roundtable Colorado Association of Funders ...
June 21, 2018
Monthly Immigration Policy Call
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 22, 2021
Partner Program