Children’s Immigration Law: 2023 Round Up
ABA Children’s Immigration Law Academy (CILA) • December 13, 2023 • 2-3:30pm CT
This webinar will provide a review of key changes in immigration law affecting unaccompanied children over the past year.
Working Through Vicarious Trauma With Self-Care Strategies
CLINIC • December 14, 2023 • 1-2:30pm ET
This webinar will review how to identify and work through vicarious trauma and prevent burnout in the practice of immigration law.
Update on Efforts to Mitigate Child Labor Exploitation and Internal Audit on Placement Process Used to Transfer Custody of Unaccompanied Children to Vetted Sponsors
Office of Refugee Resettlement, Administration for Children & Families (June 2, 2023)
This report provides updates and recommendations on efforts on the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s (ORR) efforts to address concerns of child labor exploitation for unaccompanied minors release from ORR custody.
Bipartisan bill would provide kids-only immigration courts for migrant children
Julia Ainsley, NBC News (November 1, 2023)
New bipartisan legislation seeks to make the immigration court system more child-friendly for unaccompanied migrant children via training for judges, chlid-only dockets, and connections to legal services.
What happens to Guatemalan children after they’re sent back to their home country?
Julia Ainsley & Didi Martinez, NBC News (November 2, 2023)
Over 350 children have been deported to Guatemala in the past two years, and they are often dropped off in cities hours away from their homes with no financial means to get there.
New tent cities could pop up in NYC as mayor removes homeless migrants from shelters
Claire Thornton, USA Today (November 6, 2023)
Lack of capacity and new time limits on shelter stays threaten to force migrants in New York City onto the streets.
Children are not little adults in immigration court
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, The Hill (November 7, 2023)
This opinion piece reviews the situation for unaccompanied children navigating the immigration system in light of the proposed Immigration Court Efficiency and Children’s Court Act.
Massachusetts is running out of shelter beds for families, including migrants from other states
Steve Leblanc, AP News (November 9, 2023)
Shelters in Massachusetts are running out of capacity to house migrants.
Immigrant families in NC face barriers to enrollment in safety-net programs
Lynn Bonner, NC Newsline (November 15, 2023)
A new report finds that language barriers, misinformation and complex eligibility rules prevent immigrant families in North Carolina from enrolling in safety-net programs.
Gillibrand proposes bill to increase protection for immigrant kids in government custody
WNYT (November 16, 2023)
The newly introduced “Protection of Kids in Detention Act” aims to improve transparency, protection, and accountability for all immigrant children in government custody.
Immigrant parents report faulty, slow translation of special education documents
Zaidee Stavely, EdSource (November 17, 2023)
Immigrant parents in California report challenges obtaining translations of important special education documents for their children.
Biden plans to deploy immigration officers to Panama to help screen and deport U.S.-bound migrants, officials say
Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News (November 20, 2023)
The Biden administration plans to send a team of U.S. immigration officials to Panama to assist local authorities in screening and deporting migrants traveling through the country.
Migrant Children Miss School as Families Are Scattered Across the City
Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio, Documented (November 20, 2023)
Migrant children living in New York City’s shelter system are missing school due to insecure housing as city programs and policies limit long term hotel stays.
Reduced health care utilization among young children of immigrants after Donald Trump’s election and proposed public charge rule
Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba et al., Health Affairs Scholar (August 2023)
This research explored the chilling effect of former President Trump’s election on health care utilization among children of immigrants.
Recent Immigrant Children: A Profile of New Arrivals to U.S. Schools
Julie Sugarman, Migration Policy Institute (October 2023)
This fact sheet examines the characteristics of recently arrived immigrant children, including household characteristics, geographic distribution, language use, and school enrollment and completion.
Equity in Permanency
International Social Service (2023)
This paper reviews the principles of equity in permanency to connect and place children with family locally and globally and offers related practice recommendations.
Labor Exploitation of Unaccompanied Children
Kids in Need of Defense (September 13, 2023)
This fact sheet reviews the issue of labor exploitation of unaccompanied children and how this issue can be addressed.
Protecting Access to Education for Migratory Children A Resource for Families and Educators
U.S. Dept of Justice Civil Rights Division, U.S. Dept of Education Office for Civil Rights (June 2023)
This fact sheet highlights challenges in access to education for migratory children, explains where families can go for help, and outlines responsibilities for public schools.
Protecting Access to Education for Unaccompanied Children A Resource for Families and Educators
U.S. Dept of Justice Civil Rights Division, U.S. Dept of Education Office for Civil Rights (June 2023)
This fact sheet highlights challenges in access to education for unaccompanied children, explains where caregivers can go for help, and outlines responsibilities for public schools.
Report on Homeland Security for Children Fiscal Year 2023 Report to Congress
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (September 2023)
This report describes DHS’s efforts to review and incorporate feedback from organizations representing the needs of children, and addresses the identification and protection of unaccompanied minors and family detention.
