This comprehensive list provided by the Immigration Learning Center includes a variety of resources in different categories that could be useful to immigrants, parents, and educators during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This toolkit provides an overview of financial ineligibility for public benefits, ineligibility for federal public benefits based on immigration status, and eligibility for section 8 housing choice voucher program, section 8 housing project-based rental assistance, or public housing.
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) has updated their list of 2021 Administrative Advocacy Priorities. The 2021 policy priorities include a focus on advocating for the rights of Black immigrants that are disproportionately impacted by some Trump-era policies.
This document discusses the proposed fee increase for the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) applications, appeals, and motions that is set to go into effect January 19, 2021.
MPI researchers document the decline in utilization of public-benefit programs, including TANF, SNAP (food stamps), and Medicaid by non-citizens and their U.S.-born children during the Trump administration.
This fact sheet describes the current trends in unauthorized immigrant populations, highlighting the stabilization of the number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States over the past decade.
This webinar will provide information on the DOJ agency recognition and staff accreditation processes, which are essential for expanding the provision of immigration legal services to survivors of sexual assault, trafficking, and domestic violence.
This article highlights four recommendations for the Biden-Harris administration to prevent further trauma to immigrant children in the U.S., related to family reunification, children’s development, care and custody of children, and social safety nets for immigrant children and families.
A federal judge is ordering the government to explain why the data regarding missing separated parents was not provided earlier. The hope is that this data could help reunite separated families by sharing information about phone numbers and addresses that could locate the parents of these children.
Relief agencies are facing new challenges to meet demand as undocumented immigrants with citizen children are heading to food pantries instead of participating in federal assistance programs, such as receiving food stamps–another example of the ramifications of the public charge rule expansion under the Trump administration.
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), which allows a possible 300,000 new eligible applicants to apply for protection.
There have been at least 66 unaccompanied migrant children (ages 12-17) expelled without a court hearing or asylum interview after a federal judge had ordered the practice to stop.
The pro-immigration reform group FWD.US. recently released a study based on the 2019 American Community Survey that found that over two-thirds of undocumented immigrant workers are in frontline jobs that are deemed essential in the fight against COVID-19 in the U.S.
Immigrant advocacy groups recently met with President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team on family separation to discuss a plan to address the trauma and rebuild trust of immigrant families who have experienced family separation.
The U.S. Supreme Court threw out a lawsuit meant to block President Trump’s plan to leave out immigrants from the population count, which determines the allocation of congressional districts to states.
The U.S. government is planning on deporting more than a dozen immigrant children and parents at a Texas immigration detention center, including a four-year-old girl with a broken arm who is in need of surgery.
Immigration Hub and America’s Voice collaborated with more than 100 organization to develop an Immigration Action Plan for 2021 that advocates for ten actions that are aimed at transforming the immigration system in the United States.
This webinar will identify ways to achieve successful integration plans, explain methods to collect vital data that can improve current integration programs, and propose ideas for agencies to successfully incorporate their community in integration efforts.
This webinar is an introductory-level course that will go over factors that lead to effective case management practices in immigration legal services programs.
The recently passed $900 billion COVID relief bill will include mixed-status immigrant families with undocumented family members, making them eligible to receive stimulus checks, which they were not able to receive with the first stimulus package last spring. Mixed-status families with one Social Security Number-holder will also become retroactively eligible for the checks that were a part of the CARES Act.
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