Legal Issues

As a New Year dawns, immigration policy continues to dominate the national conversation. A partial government shutdown has stretched on for nearly three weeks over President Trump’s demand for funding for his signature campaign pledge: a wall on the...

Don’t miss GCIR’s first post-summer Monthly Immigration Policy Call , during which we will take stock of key immigration-related developments and explore questions that funders should be considering right now and in the year ahead.

Between April and June of this year, the U.S. government forcibly separated more than 2,300 children from their parents as they crossed the U.S. border in search of refuge and protection.

Every morning, roughly 38,000 men, women, and children wake up in the custody of the United States’ immigration detention system. This sprawling system has facilities scattered throughout the country, often owned and run by private contractors, and...