... during Donald Trump’s four years in office, including family separation and a travel ban on nationals from majority-Muslim ...
November, 2020
Issue Brief
... Nearly 8 million U.S. citizens live with an undocumented family member , and many millions more immigrants who ... intersecting, often illegal policies. He has continued family separations , while keeping tens of thousands of ... put this dark chapter—with attacks on Dreamers, family separation, drastic cuts to immigration, and more—behind ...
October, 2020
Analysis
... DACA holders to opposing policies that increase immigrant detention, GCIR stands with community leaders and coalitions ...
April 19, 2023
Webinar
While there has been a long history of efforts to erase and exclude immigrants, BIPOC, and other marginalized communities, this timeline shows how powerfully communities in Texas have resisted. From Indigenous nations fighting to preserve their culture to BIPOC communities organizing to end the criminalization of Black and Brown lives, people have sought to protect their freedom to move, stay, work, and thrive.
May, 2022
Infographic
... In 2021, the next Administration and Congress should: End family separation at the border Rescind the travel and immigration ...
November, 2020
Issue Brief
... 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
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's strategy session "DACA in the Balance: Mobilizing to Protect Our Communities" here, including recording, PowerPoint, and other materials.
November, 2022
Program Materials
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
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar "Holding the Line: Defending Against Harmful Federal & State Policies" here, including the session recording and PowerPoint.
May, 2023
Program Materials
... program, and an estimated 18,000 Afghan allies and 53,000 family members remain in the processing backlog. As the ...
August 19, 2021
Statement
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar "A Call to Action: Investing in Black Leadership for Migrant and Racial Justice" here, including program recording and powerpoint.
June, 2022
Program Materials
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
Migration between the United States and neighboring countries to the south is an enduring if ever-shifting phenomenon. While the COVID-19 pandemic and measures put in place to stop the spread of the virus have severely limited mobility, longer-standing questions about how best to manage regional migration remain as important as ever.
November, 2020
Report
Find all program-related materials for GCIR Webinar, "Strategies for Advancing Pro-immigrant Policies", here, including recording and powerpoint.
September, 2022
Program Materials
... partners. As Stephanie Martinez of the Peter E. Haas Jr. Family Fund put it, funders must use their “privilege and ...
March 18, 2024
Commentary
Join this briefing with Black migrant leaders and funders to learn more about the growing number of Black migrants in the U.S. and the unique and urgent challenges facing Black migrant communities; the critical leadership roles Black migrant organizations play in the movements for immigrant and racial justice; and what funders can do to invest in Black migrant communities, including supporting the Black Migrant Power Fund.
June 2, 2022
Webinar