--- title: Immigration Ban Crowdfunding Has Raised Over $1 Million description: Crowdfunding campaigns on GoFundMe and CrowdRise have raised nearly $1.5 million dollars related to President Trump's executive order canonical: https://time.com/4665720/donald-trump-immigration-ban-crowdrise-gofundme/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-09T19:11:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:14:34.428Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump's Immigration Ban Helped Crowdfunding Campaigns Raise $1.5 Million og:description: The money is helping refugees or immigrants affected by the ban og:url: https://time.com/4665720/donald-trump-immigration-ban-crowdrise-gofundme/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb42295259431d1f6/6988b98c428a9ea3e4cd5d07/fundraising-travel-ban-immigrants-gofundme.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: fundraising travel ban immigrants gofundme og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump's Immigration Ban Helped Crowdfunding Campaigns Raise $1.5 Million twitter:description: The money is helping refugees or immigrants affected by the ban twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb42295259431d1f6/6988b98c428a9ea3e4cd5d07/fundraising-travel-ban-immigrants-gofundme.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump's Immigration Ban Helped Crowdfunding Campaigns Raise More Than $1 Million > Sponsored content. 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Protestors rally during a demonstration against the immigration ban at John F. Kennedy International Airport on January 28, 2017 in New York City.Stephanie Keith—Getty Images  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Feb 9, 2017 7:11 PM UTC Crowdfunding campaigns on GoFundMe and CrowdRise [have raised nearly $1.5 million dollars](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/travel-ban-crowdfunding.html?) related to President Trump’s immigration ban. People have started more than 50 campaigns on GoFundMe and CrowdRise that are related to the executive order halting travel into the U.S. for people from seven majority-Muslim countries, the New York _Times_ reports. That money is meant to help those affected cover costs of changing travel plans or having to stay elsewhere. [One such campaign](https://www.gofundme.com/bringassalifamilyback) is raising money to pay for the flights of a Syrian family who had been approved to move to the U.S. but had to turn back when Trump signed the order. [Another](https://www.gofundme.com/house100) is raising funds for Iraqi interpreters who have translated for the U.S. government. As the _Times_ notes, while [organizations like the ACLU](http://time.com/4653189/aclu-muslim-ban-donald-trump/) have seen their volume of donations skyrocket since the ban and Trump’s election in general, the crowdfunding campaigns are a way to make sure money reaches specific individuals or causes in need of assistance immediately. GoFundMe acquired CrowdRise last month and they’re two of the more prominent crowdfunding platforms, so the nearly $1.5 million raised on their sites is likely a significant portion of the total amount raised. But people have also used other websites to raise money for refugees or stranded travelers, so it’s difficult to know precisely how much people have donated to individual cases in response to the executive order. \[[_New York Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/travel-ban-crowdfunding.html?)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4665720/donald-trump-immigration-ban-crowdrise-gofundme/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4665720/donald-trump-immigration-ban-crowdrise-gofundme/"},"headline":"President Trump's Immigration Ban Helped Crowdfunding Campaigns Raise More Than $1 Million","datePublished":"2017-02-09T19:11:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:14:34.428Z","description":"The money is helping cover related costs for refugees or immigrants affected by the travel ban","url":"https://time.com/4665720/donald-trump-immigration-ban-crowdrise-gofundme/","keywords":["Immigration","politics","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb42295259431d1f6/6988b98c428a9ea3e4cd5d07/fundraising-travel-ban-immigrants-gofundme.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb42295259431d1f6/6988b98c428a9ea3e4cd5d07/fundraising-travel-ban-immigrants-gofundme.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"fundraising travel ban immigrants gofundme","caption":"fundraising travel ban immigrants gofundme","creditText":"Stephanie Keith—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/immigration/","name":"Immigration"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4665720/donald-trump-immigration-ban-crowdrise-gofundme/","name":"President Trump's Immigration Ban Helped Crowdfunding Campaigns Raise More Than $1 Million"}}]}] ```