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Speakers
\nLillian Aponte, Executive Director, Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
\nErika Pinheiro, Executive Director, Al Otro Lado\u00a0
\nFatima Saidi, Director, We Are All America\u00a0<\/p>\n
Moderators
\nBasma Alawee, Deputy Executive Director, Community Sponsorship Hub
\nZenobia Lai, Executive Director, Houston Immigration Legal Services Collaborative\u00a0<\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"fighting-exclusion-and-expulsion-protecting-the-freedom-to-move-and-to-stay","image":{"url":"https:\/\/www.womensfundingnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GCIR.png","id":73732,"extension":"png","width":715,"height":401,"filesize":524399,"sizes":{"medium":{"width":300,"height":168,"mime-type":"image\/png","filesize":96938,"url":"https:\/\/www.womensfundingnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GCIR-300x168.png"},"thumbnail":{"width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/png","filesize":43396,"url":"https:\/\/www.womensfundingnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GCIR-150x150.png"},"news_thumb":{"width":315,"height":200,"mime-type":"image\/png","filesize":115444,"url":"https:\/\/www.womensfundingnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GCIR-315x200.png"},"news_thumb_retina":{"width":630,"height":400,"mime-type":"image\/png","filesize":379474,"url":"https:\/\/www.womensfundingnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GCIR-630x400.png"},"report":{"width":310,"height":400,"mime-type":"image\/png","filesize":180720,"url":"https:\/\/www.womensfundingnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GCIR-310x400.png"},"report_retina":{"width":620,"height":401,"mime-type":"image\/png","filesize":407491,"url":"https:\/\/www.womensfundingnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GCIR-620x401.png"},"half_width":{"width":415,"height":233,"mime-type":"image\/png","filesize":170406,"url":"https:\/\/www.womensfundingnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GCIR-415x233.png"}}},"all_day":false,"start_date":"2025-04-28 10:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"04","day":"28","hour":"10","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2025-04-28 11:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"04","day":"28","hour":"11","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2025-04-28 17:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"04","day":"28","hour":"17","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2025-04-28 18:00:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"04","day":"28","hour":"18","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"America\/New_York","timezone_abbr":"EDT","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"$","currency_code":"","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"https:\/\/www.gcir.org\/programs\/2025\/04\/fighting-exclusion-and-expulsion-protecting-the-freedom-to-move-and-stay","show_map":false,"show_map_link":false,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"Virtual","slug":"virtual","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":65,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":142,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1","id":65,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/www.womensfundingnetwork.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/65","collection":"https:\/\/www.womensfundingnetwork.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[],"venue":[],"organizer":[],"custom_fields":[],"json_ld":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Event","name":"Fighting Exclusion and Expulsion: Protecting the Freedom to Move and to Stay","description":"<p>The U.S. administration\u2019s current attempt to exclude and expel people through sweeping executive overreach in defiance of the rule of…<\/p>\\n","image":"https:\/\/www.womensfundingnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GCIR.png","url":"https:\/\/www.womensfundingnetwork.org\/event\/fighting-exclusion-and-expulsion-protecting-the-freedom-to-move-and-to-stay\/","eventAttendanceMode":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OfflineEventAttendanceMode","eventStatus":"https:\/\/schema.org\/EventScheduled","startDate":"2025-04-28T10:00:00-04:00","endDate":"2025-04-28T11:00:00-04:00","performer":"Organization"}}