A discussion of the new Family First Prevention Services Act, which addresses a range of issues in public child welfare.
Read ArticleAn analysis of President Trump’s call to close “glaring loopholes in our laws” that gang members are allegedly taking advantage of to “enter the country as unaccompanied alien minors.”
Read ArticleThis report presents national data about child abuse and neglect known to child protective services agencies in the United States during federal fiscal year 2016.
View ReportThe Trump administration is considering new restrictions on working-class immigrants’ ability to reunite with their family members.
Read ArticleAn infographic about potential paths to a green card for TPS grantees.
Get the InfographicThis issue brief is intended to clarify what has and has not changed with respect to the policies affecting immigrants’ access to health care, nutrition, and other critical programs. The NILC invites you to use it as a resource when you speak with immigrants and immigrant families.
Read MoreA guide of information, resources and best practices that seeks to provide practitioners with the knowledge and skills to better serve the increasing number of Latino and recent immigrant families in their communities.
Read the Full ResourceThis fact sheet provides an overview of the Trump administration’s proposed changes to “public charge” policies and their implications for health and health coverage of legal immigrant families and their predominantly U.S.-born citizen children.
Read MoreThe Trump Administration is opening a new front in its assault on family-based immigration by making it harder for immigrants who might use essential public services to come to the United States and settle there permanently. The Department of Homeland Security has informed the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that it plans to propose regulations that discard longstanding policy about the meaning and application of the “public charge” provisions of immigration law.
Get the Fact SheetThis resource discusses the three primary mechanisms to reduce a felony to a misdemeanor: Penal Code § 17(b), Prop 47, and Prop 64. This information is especially important for immigrants as reducing felony convictions to misdemeanor convictions can be a powerful way to eliminate certain grounds of deportability, or open up eligibility for immigration status or immigration benefits.
Read MoreA discussion of how childhood experiences related to deportations have a profound effect on children’s current lives and on their future opportunities.
Read the ArticleResearchers at NCCP, Urban Institute, and Migration Policy Institute looked at how the changing immigration policy environment is likely to affect immigrant families. Specifically, the report examines whether immigrant families living in states that ramped up enforcement of federal policy saw any changes in their material hardship, or how often fear of deportation affected their ability to pay for essentials (such as rent, utilities, or food).
View the ReportThis study explores the mental health impact of parental detention and deportation on U.S. citizen children as potentially traumatic events that may cause post-traumatic stress disorder and psychological distress.
Download the PublicationBorder Patrol officers are working without permission on private property and setting up checkpoints up to 100 miles away from the border under a little-known federal law that is being used more widely in the Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration.
Read the StoryAccording to public defenders and immigrant advocates, more and more immigrant families who come to the southern border seeking asylum are being charged in federal criminal courts from El Paso to Arizona. Comprehensive statistics do not exist, but activists and attorneys say anecdotal evidence suggests the practice is spreading.
Read the ArticleA discussion of the proposed legislation which would force immigrants to choose between accessing needed benefits for their children and staying in the country.
Read the StoryThis article discusses the loopholes that allow unaccompanied immigrant children to remain in the U.S.
Read MoreA discussion of how to better utilize statistical information to make decisions about whether to remove children from homes due to abuse or maltreatment.
Read the StoryLast month, the Trump administration announced plans to revoke temporary protected status for Salvadorans, without attention to the fact that current gangs the result of a previous massive U.S. deportation wave of Salvadoran gang members in the 1990s, meaning that cycle could repeat itself.
Read the StoryU.S. Senators Kamala D. Harris (D-CA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) led a group of senators on Monday in condemning the Trump Administration’s proposal to systemically separate immigrant children from their parents upon arrival in the United States and asked Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to reject the measure.
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