In response to growing pressure from advocacy groups, the U.S. government has ended its practice of transporting migrant families who crossed the border in south Texas to El Paso and San Diego, where they would then expel them to Mexico.
This article discusses the Biden administration’s approach to measuring data and statistics about migration and enforcement at the border.
Attorneys have successfully located 54 parents of migrant children who were separated at the US-Mexico border during the Trump administration, but are still working to find and contact the parents of 391 children.
The Biden administration has announced that it will extend the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for 54,000 Haitian immigrants living in the U.S. by 18 months, and it will allow tens of thousands of other eligible Haitians to apply for relief.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has done away with a plan to house up to 5,000 migrant children under the age of 12 at the Fort Bliss Army base in El Paso amid concerns of subpar conditions and prolonged stays.
Despite ongoing pressure to undo the Title 42 policy, which enables immigration officials to turn away migrants due to COVID-19, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended the Biden administration’s continued use of this policy.
The governor of Maryland has vetoed bills that would have limited Maryland state and local governments’ cooperation with federal immigration enforcement efforts.
The ACLU is calling on the Biden administration to provide access to COVID-19 vaccines for immigrants in ICE detention facilities, whose congregate settings greatly increase the spread of COVID-19.
The Temporary Family Visitation Act, which would create a new visa type allowing U.S. citizens and permanent residents to petition for family members to temporarily visit the U.S., has been introduced to Congress by bipartisan leaders.
thening Border Families: Community and Policy Responses to Serving Immigrant Families with Young Children in Doña Ana County, NMThis report details the results and recommendations of the first phase of a community-based participatory research project which aimed to explore the accessibility and quality of services as well as barriers and facilitators to service receipt among immigrant families with young children in the New Mexico borderlands. It is also available in Spanish here.
This document created by the American Immigration Lawyers Association summarizes and lists the details of the recent changes that were made to the USCIS Policy Manual for working with Asylees and Refugees. (Document access requires an AILA account).
This webinar is intended to offer guidance to attorneys that work on behalf of child welfare agencies or the state. The webinar discusses ways to support immigrant youth in foster care.
This webinar explores the strengths and challenges that LGBTQIA children encounter when they seek protection in the United States. The panel of experts that participated in the webinar discuss how they have worked with this population and offer recommendations for improving the immigration system so that it can better support immigrant LGBTQIA youth.
This white paper is a collection of stories of ten people that were deported from the United States. The full report includes recommendations for improving U.S. immigrations laws and policies.
The Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro N. Mayorkas, has put new limits in place on immigration enforcement actions in or near courthouses. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have received information regarding the new guidance set by the Department of Homeland Security.
This policy brief focuses on seven regions in California to attempt to estimate the chilling effects of the public charge rule on health care access for children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The U.S. fact sheet provided by the Migration Policy Institute, examine the main sociodemographic features of immigrant and native-born parents with the intention of gaining more knowledge about how to create more equitable ways of integrating the needs of immigrant families in the United States with a focus on early childhood, health and social services, and the education systems. There are also fact sheets included for each state. The webinar link highlights the data that illustrates the disparities that children in immigrant families experience in the United States.
This systematic review evaluates local, state, and federal immigration related policies and the impact that these policies have on the health outcomes of children.
This research article uses a case study focusing on Texas to explore the obstacles that exist for Latinx children that are eligible to access federal benefits but are also uninsured.
This article discusses how shortfalls in preparedness resulted in overcrowding at U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities in the months of February and March when there was an increase in the number of unaccompanied child migrants entering the United States.
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