The domestic violence deportation ground at INA § 237(a)(2)(E) sets out four bases for deportability. This advisory will provide a brief overview of the deportation ground, and outline recent decisions and how they may affect representation in California and the Ninth Circuit.
The New Executive Order is No Solution: Three Facts on Family Separation and Detention
Blanca Ramirez, Jody Agius Vallejo, and Eliane Fersan, University of Southern California (
This publication explores three facts about migration, family separation, and the broader societal consequences of immigrant detention.
Fact Sheet: Top 10 Reasons Family Incarceration is Not a Solution
Human Rights First (June 2018)
The Trump Administration is attempting to replace its failed policy of family separation with the failed policy of family incarceration. ICE already detains families at three facilities in Dilley and Karnes, Texas and Reading, Pennsylvania, but the Trump Administration wants to lock up families even longer and overturn legal rules that protect children from lengthy detention.
Fact Sheet: The Trauma of Childhood Separation
Megan J. Wolff, PhD, MPH; Weill Cornell (July 2, 2018)
The Institute for the History of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell created this tool for those working on behalf of separated families or incarcerated parents. This well-sourced fact sheet details the medical aspects of the trauma of child separation. It’s intended to be of use for journalists, policymakers, lawyers, and anyone else interested or involved in the issue.
2018 Kids Count Data Book: State Trends in Child Well-Being
The Annie E. Casey Foundation (June 27, 2018)
The 2018 KIDS COUNT® Data Book provides important context entering the 2020 census and its potential to under count at least 1 million kids under age 5. It also looks at recent trends in child well-being, including improvements in economic well-being but mixed results in health, education and family and community factors.
Court Halts Trump Administration Policy Prolonging Court Halts Trump Administration Policy Prolonging Detention of Hundreds Of Immigrant Children
New York Civil Liberties Union (June 27, 2018)
A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction ending a policy of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) requiring Trump-appointed director Scott Lloyd to personally review and approve the release of any detained immigrant child who is or has ever been in a heightened supervision placement while in ORR custody.
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Supporting Children and Parents Affected by the Trauma of Separation
Child Trends and the National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families, (June 2018)
As public officials and communities turn to the task of reuniting and supporting immigrant children and parents separated at the border, they face the difficult but critical work of helping these families heal after the trauma they have endured.In this brief, Maria A. Ramos-Olazagasti, a Center investigator, teams up with Jessica Dym Bartlett, a Child Trends expert on early child trauma, to offer research-based guidance for parents, communities, states, and the federal government.
The Tried-And-True Alternatives to Detaining Immigrant Families
Ruthie Epstein, ACLU (June 22, 2018)
This publication discusses alternatives to family detention in light of the recent Executive Order ending family separation and requiring family detention instead.
By separating immigrant families, we’ve caused irreparable harm. It’s time to make amends.
Luis H. Zayas, USA Today (June 21, 2018)
As a behavioral scientist, I know the pain I hear from these children is causing serious damage that has been wrought on these vulnerable lives. The need for the human bond is profound for infants, toddlers and older children. It is the attachment that helps in the development of positive social interaction, trust of others and the regulation of emotions and behaviors…
Read MoreIncarcerating Entire Families Cannot Be the Solution to the Separation of Children
Philip E. Wolgin, Center for American Progress (June 20, 2018)
Over the past two weeks, as the public has learned more and more about the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from their parents and keeping them in cages—a practice that former First Lady Laura Bush termed “eerily reminiscent of the internment camps … during World War II”—anger and outrage at the practice has echoed throughout all corners of the nation…
Read MoreSeparating kids from parents at the border mirrors a ‘textbook strategy’ of domestic abuse, experts say — and causes irreversible, lifelong damage
Job Announcement: Florence Project Family Separation Attorney Fellow and Legal Assistant Positions
The Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project (June 11, 2018)
The Florence Project is responding to the urgent crisis of family separation by hiring a team to serve immigrant parents and children separated at the border. The Family Separation Fellow and Family Separation Legal Assistant will educate, empower, and provide legal assistance to immigrant families separated at the border–detained adults and unaccompanied immigrant children in removal proceedings in Arizona. These positions have been created in direct response to recent changes in government policies creating a zero tolerance policy at the border, and separating parents from children as an attempt to deter migration.
Collins-Flake Letter to Nielsen and Azar
U.S. Senate (June 16, 2018)
A letter from U.S. Senators Collins and Flake to DHS Secretary Nielsen and HSS Secretary Azar regarding the separation of immigrant families.
Nearly 2,000 minors separated from families at the border, according to new government data
PBS News Hour (June 15, 2018)
Nearly 2,000 children have been separated from their families at the U.S. border over a six-week period during a crackdown on illegal entries, according to Department of Homeland Security figures.
Read MoreAmerican Professional Society on the Abuse of Children 26th Annual Colloquium
The 2019 Call for Papers will be available soon at www.apsac.org or you can email APSAC at jcampbell@apsac.org to request a form. APSAC is soliciting abstracts for training, research, roundtable and poster presentations for the 26th Annual APSAC Colloquium in Salt Lake City, Utah. Join APSAC at one of the field’s premier forums for child maltreatment professionals to offer training presentations and report new research findings. Topics address legal, medical, mental health, investigative, preventive, and protective services work with abused and neglected children, their families, and perpetrators of abuse. Presentations are encouraged on all aspects of child maltreatment, including cultural diversity. Submissions are encouraged on all aspects of child maltreatment, including cultural diversity.
More Info‘Tent cities’ for migrant children reportedly cost much more than detaining families together
Kevin Breuninger and Tucker Higgins, CNBC (June 20, 2018)
It reportedly costs $775 per person per night to keep the newly separated children of families who cross the U.S. border illegally in “tent cities. The per-person cost at certain detention centers that would keep families together is $298 per night, according to an agency estimate from 2014, NBC reported.
Read MoreI Worked at a Child Migrant Center. What I Was Told to Do Was So Inhumane That I Quit.
Antar Davidson, Mother Jones (June 20, 2018)
Read MoreHispanic Couples in the Supporting Healthy Marriage Evaluation: How Representative are they of Low-Income Hispanic Couples in the United States?
Maria A. Ramos-Olazagasti; Lina Guzman; National Research Center on Hispanic Families & Children (June 2018)
This brief assesses the extent to which Hispanic participants in the Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) evaluation data set represent the broader U.S. population of Hispanic couples.
How Well Do National Surveys Measure Hispanic Families and Households?
Lina Guzman; Maria A. Ramos-Olazagasti; Marta Alvira-Hammond; Emily Miller; Christina Padilla; Renee Ryberg; Claudia Vega; National Research Center on Hispanic Families & Children (June 20, 2018)
This brief examines the capacity of our nation’s data infrastructure to measure, describe, and understand the structure, diversity, complexity, and dynamics of Hispanic family life through the review of more than 20 mostly national surveys to assess the extent to which they include measures critical to understanding the characteristics and experiences of Hispanic families and households.
