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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, May 14, 2026 Media [email protected] Washington, D.C. — Today, TIME named Greisa Martínez Rosas, Executive Director of United We Dream and one of the leaders behind the development and creation of the Defending Our Neighbors Fund, to its second-annual 2026 TIME100 Philanthropy list. The list recognizes leaders across the country who are shaping the future of giving and honors Ms. Martinez Rosas’ vital leadership in the launch of the historic multi-million-dollar Defending Our Neighbors Fund. The Fund was created in partnership with the ACLU and Abundant Futures Fund and has raised $15 million and counting to urgently expand legal defense for immigrant families facing separation, detention, and deportation. The full list will appear in the May 25, 2026 issue of TIME, available on newsstands on Friday, May 15, and now online at ti.me/100-philanthropy. Describing Greisa Martínez Rosas, TIME wrote: “Greisa Martínez Rosas is an ‘unafraid’ and ‘unashamed’ immigrant who arrived in the U.S. as a child, and she brings that lived experience to her role at the helm of United We Dream.” “Last

The Trump administration is sending dozens of unaccompanied migrant children to the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas to await deportation, Border Report has learned. About 50 children have been sent to the region from the interior of the U.S. in the past few months and are being held in four detention facilities operated by the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), Laura Peña, director of the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project, or ProBar, said Tuesday…

Madi Diaz pulled double duty while recording her recently released seventh album, Fatal Optimist. In addition to laying down her own songs, the singer also recorded a track-by-track cover of Blink-182’s breakthrough 1999 album, Enema of the State. “These recordings started out as a fun exercise fueled by the love and fandom I have for blink-182 and the record Enema Of The State,” Diaz wrote in an Instagram post on Monday…

Right now, all over the country, immigrants are at risk of detention, deportation, and family separation. Too often they have no access to legal representation, even if they are children. This fund, a project of the ACLU and other groups, aims to remedy that. Lawyers to the rescue…

En medio de los ataques de la Administración Trump, diversas organizaciones buscan encontrar la forma de apoyar a las familias de inmigrantes que lo necesitan. En ese contexto, la Unión Americana por las Libertades Civiles, United We Dream (UWD) y Abundant Futures Fund (AFF) han lanzado el Defending our Neighbors Fund (Defendiendo a nuestros vecinos), una iniciativa que podrá servir como un apoyo clave financiero para aquellos que lo necesiten debido a las medidas severas contra los inmigrantes…

on el objetivo de respaldar a familias de inmigrantes viviendo en Estados Unidos que luchan en contra de su detención y posterior deportación a sus naciones de origen, las organizaciones United We Dream (UWD), Unión Americana por las Libertades Civiles (ACLU) y Abundant Futures Fund (AFF), crearon un fondo destinado a brindarles abogados y asesoría legal para defenderse en tribunales. El Fondo Defending Our Neighbors, con sede en AFF, actualmente asciende a $10 millones de dólares, pero su meta consiste en llegar a triplicarse en poco tiempo…

A new initiative launched Thursday seeks to provide immigrants with free access to lawyers by donating funds to legal service providers that work in legal deserts, areas near U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detention centers, or communities with large immigrant populations. Defending Our Neighbors Fund, created by the American Civil Liberties Union, United We Dream and Abundant Futures Fund, aims to raise $30 million. It already raised $10 million before its public launch…

United We Dream (UWD), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and Abundant Futures Fund (AFF), have joined forces to launch theDefending Our Neighbors Fund: a bold new initiative that will scale up crucial financial support to legal organizations all across the country. Housed within AFF, the Defending Our Neighbors Fund will help ensure immigrant families facing the threat of separation and wrongful detention and deportations have access to lawyers…