New court documents indicate that Border Patrol temporarily separated some migrant families this summer to avoid overcrowding, some with children as young as 8-years-old.
Despite attempts by three presidential administrations to curb migration at the U.S.-Mexico border, migrant families continue to arrive in record numbers.
The Biden administration has extended temporary protected status (TPS) to those Venezuelans who arrived in the U.S. by the end of July.
This report details the findings and implications from the third phase of the Strengthening Border Families study, which interviewed immigrant caregivers with young children in Doña Ana County about their experiences accessing a broad range of supportive services. Read the report in Spanish here.
This research explored Latinx immigrant experiences and mental health in the Immigrant Well-Being Project intervention in New Mexico via the adaptation of discrimination and historical loss measures.
This brief summarizes research demonstrating the “chilling effect” of the Trump public charge rule and the harmful consequences to immigrant families, including dis-enrolling from or avoiding supportive services like Medicaid, CHIP, and SNAP.
This brief examines health care coverage and eligibility of noncitizens, reviews some state actions to expand health coverage eligibility to noncitizens, and explores the eligibility of uninsured noncitizens in Medicaid expansion and nonexpansion states.
This policy brief describes the recent history and changes to the public charge rule and clarifies the scope of the Biden administration’s rule.
This policy brief outlines the negative implications of the Biden administration’s new asylum rule for children seeking safety in at the U.S.-Mexico border.
This policy analysis reviews the pathways to permanent legal status in the U.S., highlighting how restrictive the legal options are and why legal immigration is virtually impossible in most cases.
This practice advisory reviews the Central American Minors Program, including the initial application process and subsequent re-parole applications.
This factsheet, updated after the implementation of the Biden Administration’s final public charge regulation, answers key questions about the public charge rule and its implications.
This list of terms reviews the legal definitions of a child and related terms to assist in understanding key concepts of domestic and international immigration protections and systems relevant for children.
According to UNICEF, the number of child migrants crossing the Darien Gap, a dangerous expanse of jungle between Colombia and Panama, increased greatly between January and April.
The DACA program was again debated in front of a federal judge, with no decision at this time.
The Judge Department has been defending the Trump administration’s family separation policy in a lawsuit brought on by five mothers who were separated from their children.
A new HSS Dept audit indicates that the Biden administration released 344 unaccompanied minors to live with nonrelative sponsors, raising concerns for implications for child labor exploitation.
HHS has released the results of a new internal audit of the Office of Refugee Resettlement on its process for sponsor vetting and placement of unaccompanied children.
Florida’s new immigration law taking effect July 1 is anticipated to have negative health and other impacts for immigrant families, especially due to the new requirement for hospitals to collect info on immigration status.
Federal agencies are investigating meatpacking and produce firms in 11 states for allegations of hiring Guatemalan children in violation of child labor laws.
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