400 children have been reunited with their parents after being separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under the Trump administration.
The ICE Office of Partnership and Engagement hosted a virtual engagement with over 30 individuals from various NGOs to hear feedback on the updated parental interests directive, which sets requirements for ICE to preserve access to family visitation and child welfare services for detained parents.
The Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act and rejected attempts to include several harsh immigration enforcement provisions.
Asylum seeking families arriving at New York City homeless shelters are being separated in some cases due to lack of proper documentation to prove they are a family unit, causing some families to opt to sleep on the street
Although 400 children and families previously separated under the Trump administration have been reunited, some 1,000 still remain separated and ongoing efforts must be made to continue this reunification progress.
In the wake of the overturn of Roe v. Wade, unaccompanied immigrant children in U.S. custody who want to seek an abortion are being moved to states that don’t have new abortion restrictions as advocates call on ORR to expand their policy on abortion access.
New York City has developed Project Open Arms, a collaborative effort of city and nonprofit agencies to help asylum-seeking families get enrolled in school and access needed social services.
This hybrid conference will address topics such as the state of play for immigration, the growing role of litigation to block immigration policies, the asylum system, and developments in humanitarian protection.
DHS has released a final rule to take effect on Oct. 31st. that codifies and preserves DACA, while maintaining the existing eligibility guidelines.
This research brief by the CICW Research Workgroup provides background and highlights gaps in the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s Post-Release Services program for unaccompanied minors and offers research-based recommendations for improvements.
This brief summaries the key findings and recommendations from the second phase of the Strengthening Border Families study, which elicited the perspectives of frontline practitioners who serve immigrant families across a variety of service settings in the community about the accessibility and quality of services for immigrant families with young children in the Doña Ana County. It is also available in Spanish here.
This research explored immigrant children’s mental health and impacts of various neighborhood and family contexts.
This research describes mental health symptoms and service receipt among Latino adults with children.
This resource provides a summary and FAQ of the recent federal court ruling regarding DHS immigration enforcement priorities.
This policy brief discusses the state of immigrant children’s eligibility and coverage by Medicaid and CHIP in 2019.
This resource provides key steps for organizations in the design, implementation, evaluation, and reassessment of immigrant integration endeavors.
This resource accompanies CLINICS’s “Immigrant and Community Integration Step by Step Guide to Local Integration Programming” to provide additional information content and worksheets to support integration projects.
This article provides an overview of what has happened in the 5 years since the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy.
A Biden administration lawyer has entered an appeal to get rid of the ruling blocking the DACA program from receiving new applications.
The new Trusted Adult Relative Program is being tested at Border Patrol stations in TX to reunify children with family members.
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