BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Forefront - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Forefront
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://myforefront.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Forefront
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Chicago
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20220313T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20221106T070000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20230312T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20231105T070000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20240310T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20241103T070000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230125T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230125T130000
DTSTAMP:20260609T072250
CREATED:20230118T174858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230118T174858Z
UID:2936120-1674648000-1674651600@myforefront.org
SUMMARY:Strategies for Resisting Immigration Detention in Rural America
DESCRIPTION:Immigrants and refugees are diversifying and reviving rural America\, yet the prevalence of immigration detention centers continues to create fear and harm in immigrant communities. According to a recent analysis by the National Committee on Responsive Philanthropy\, 52% of immigrant detainees in the country are being detained in rural areas\, creating a burden for their families\, many of whom are forced to travel hundreds of miles to see their loved ones. The isolation of these centers has also made it difficult for detainees to receive legal representation and language interpretation. Because of this\, detained individuals in rural areas are denied asylum and deported to their countries of origin at much higher rates (87%) than detainees in urban areas (54%). \n\nThis phenomenon is not new. The perception that rural areas have cheap labor and cheap land contributed to the creation of hundreds of new prisons in rural parts of the country in the 1990s. In 2018\, the Southern Poverty Law Center sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)\, alleging that the federal agency was deliberately detaining people in rural areas far from legal resources.\n\nIn this webinar session – a part of Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees’ (GCIR) series on rural power building – we will explore how detention in rural areas is harming communities; challenges to obtaining legal representation; and how local\, state\, and national organizations are confronting the harmful impacts of immigration detention on communities across the country. \nWe invite you to view the video recordings and materials from the first two sessions of the rural power building series: \n\nSession 1: Building Immigrant & Worker Power in Rural America\nSession 2: Promoting the Health and Wellbeing of Immigrant Workers in Rural Communities\n\nSPEAKERS\n\nLiz Castillo\, Organizing Manager\, Detention Watch Network\nSophia Genovese\, Senior Staff Attorney & EJW Disaster Resilience Fellow\, New Mexico Immigrant Law Center\nAmilcar Valencia\, Executive Director\, El Refugio\n\nMODERATOR\n\nGuadalupe Pimintel\, Director of Community Leadership and Equitable Initiatives\, Central Indiana Community Foundation\n\nREGISTER HERE\n 
URL:https://myforefront.org/event/strategies-for-resisting-immigration-detention-in-rural-america/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:General Public
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR