An administrator of Florida’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) reported an immigrant minor to ICE, violating longstanding state policy that prohibits workers from acting on a child’s immigration status.
Washington’s Family Separation Rapid Response Team has issued its first report since its inception, highlighting multiple gaps in supports for separated immigrant families.
This report shares findings from focus groups with undocumented Hispanic adults or adults living with an undocumented immigrant to provide insight into the experiences of these families amid the current environment.
This study examined the emotional responses and the immigration socialization process for children in California navigating the immigration policy climate.
New research by the Migration Policy Institute outlines the catastrophic effect that Trump’s Executive Order repealing birthright citizenship would have on immigrant families and children, including stripping citizenship from approximately 255,000 U.S.-born children annually and adding millions to the unauthorized population over the coming decades.
This brief analyzes the potential negative effects of increased immigration enforcement under the Trump administration on family health, well-being, and the long-term stability of communities, the workforce, and the economy.
This policy brief analyzes the implications of the recent reconciliation bill for unaccompanied children.
These one-page fact sheets provide updated estimates on the millions of children in mixed-status families who are at risk of losing their benefits.
This resource reviews the Trump administration’s new registration requirement for non-citizens.
This guide provides tools and resources to help support and prepare youth and families in case of immigration enforcement actions.
This know your rights resource provides guidance on what to do in an interaction with an immigration enforcement official in the event of a “welfare check” on unaccompanied children.
Two Honduran women, deported with their US citizen children, were denied the chance to coordinate the care and custody of their children prior to removal.
A two-year-old child was forcibly separated from her parents by the Trump administration, with her mother deported to Venezuela and her father imprisoned in El Salvador.
Advocates raise concerns about conditions for children in federal government custody and the resulting long-lasting trauma family detention causes.
Fear of child separation policies and concerns of children’s right violations are growing in the wake of recent deportations of US-citizen children.
The Trump administration is conducting a nationwide review of 450,000 unaccompanied migrant children, under the guise of ensuring their safety, raising concerns among advocates that the review may be used to deport sponsors or children without documentation.
Advocacy groups are suing the Trump Administration to challenge new procedures that have tripled the time migrant children spend in government custody before reunification with sponsors.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement’s mission appears to be changing under the Trump administration toward assisting with immigration enforcement efforts.
US citizen children deported with their undocumented parent stand to face many challenges if they wish to return to the U.S.
CICW Director speaks to how ICE is using welfare checks on unaccompanied minors as an immigration enforcement strategy and the importance of families creating “preparedness plans” for such encounters.
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