Public Charge Relief Chart
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (December 10, 2019)
This resource will help to determine a clients public charge applicability to applications and provides a list of relief forms to assist.
The Government Has Taken at Least 1,100 Children From Their Parents Since Family Separations Officially Ended
John Washington, The Intercept (December 9, 2019)
The U.S. government is still taking children from their parents after they cross the border. Since the supposed end of family separation — in the summer of 2018, after a federal judge’s injunction and President Donald Trump’s executive order reversing the deeply controversial policy — more than 1,100 children have been taken from their parents, according to the government’s own data.
Read moreInside the Cell Where a Sick 16-Year-Old Boy Died in Border Patrol Care
Robert Moore and Susan Schmidt, Pro Publica (December 5, 2019)
Video obtained by ProPublica shows the Border Patrol held a sick teen in a concrete cell without proper medical attention and did not discover his body until his cellmate alerted guards. The video doesn’t match the Border Patrol’s account of his death.
Read moreChild Welfare & Unaccompanied Children in Federal Immigration Custody
National Center for Youth Law (December, 2019)
In 1997, the Flores Settlement Agreement established basic standards governing the custody, detention, and release of children in federal immigration custody. These standards are based on fundamental child welfare principles, namely that detention is harmful and that children should be reunified with their families as quickly as possible. This guide summarizes over two decades of lessons learned since its implementation and synthesizes the research and data that should ground future policy.
CBP Families and Children Care Panel Final Report
Department of Homeland Security (November 14, 2019)
In an interim report issued in April 2019, a bipartisan panel made a set of emergency recommendations in response to the increase of immigrants, especially family units, at the southern border, including changes to asylum processing at the border. In this final report, the panel supplements the recommendations from their April report with additional recommendations related to emergency funding, U.S. government agency coordination, unaccompanied minors, federal investigative efforts, and push factors.
Why Homeland Security Lost Track of Kids it Separated at The Border
Andrew Eversden, Federal Times (December 2, 2019)
DHS estimated that its border patrol agents separated more than 3,000 children for their families during those 2018 months. The department estimates that it completed over 2,100 reunifications, but the IG found 136 children with potential family relationships that DHS didn’t properly record. In a longer review of Oct. 1, 2017, to Feb. 14, 2019, the IG found another 1,233 children with potential family relationships that CBP didn’t record properly.
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Job Posting With The Kino Border Initiative for a Volunteer Coordinator
Kino Border Initiative (May, 2019)
The Volunteer Coordinator is responsible for animating persons and communities to solidarity with the migrants that the Kino Border Initiative serves. This role includes collaborating with all KBI staff team to implement programs, recruiting and engaging volunteers with KBI, and ensuring compliance with the KBI Safe Environment Program.
Read moreMany Immigrants With Temporary Protected Status Face Uncertain Future in U.S.
D’Vera Cohn, Jeffery S. Passel and Kristen Bialik, Pew Research Center (November 27, 2019)
This resource finds that immigrants who have time-limited permission to live and work in the United States under a program known as Temporary Protected Status (TPS) face an uncertain future amid legal and political debates over their future.
Under new proposal, administration would bar most asylum-seekers from working while their cases are pending
Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc. (November, 14 2019)
A new round of proposed regulations from the administration would make it impossible for most asylum seekers to be permitted to work while their cases are pending.
Read moreThe Border, Trafficking, and Risks to Unaccompanied Children — Understanding the Impact of U.S. Policy on Children’s Safety
Kids in Need of Defense (November 14, 2019)
This briefing paper looks at how current policies aimed at blocking the entry of children and asylum seekers contribute toward the humanitarian crisis at the border rather than existing laws designed to protect children.
What ending DACA could cost the U.S. economy
Courtney Vinopal, PBS News (November 12, 2019)
While the Supreme Court’s arguments on Tuesday hinged on whether the Trump administration’s attempts to end DACA were lawful, those watching the case are considering what the economic losses of terminating the program might be.
Read moreTrump administration must provide mental health services to migrant families, federal judge says
Danielle Wallace, Fox News (November 8, 2019)
A federal judge in California earlier this week ruled that the Trump administration must provide mental health services to thousands of migrant parents and children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a report.
Read moreNew Trump administration proposal would charge asylum seekers an application fee
Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Miriam Jordan, The New York Times (November 8, 2019)
The Trump administration on Friday proposed hiking a range of fees assessed on those pursuing legal immigration and citizenship, as well as for the first time charging those fleeing persecution for seeking protection in the United States.
Read moreLawmakers grill ICE official on family separations after Mississippi immigration raids
Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News (November 7, 2019)
Three months after immigration authorities carried out a massive roundup of nearly 700 undocumented workers at food processing plants in Mississippi, lawmakers grilled one of the officials who oversaw the operation over the decision not to warn local stakeholders, the lack of enforcement actions against employers and the separations of children from immigrant parents who remain detained.
Read moreSenators move to protect program for immigrant military families that Trump may end
Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News (November 6, 2019)
A group of Democratic senators led by U.S. Army veteran Tammy Duckworth of Illinois unveiled a proposal on Wednesday to shield certain undocumented family members of U.S. troops from deportation, a move aimed at safeguarding a little-known immigration program the Trump administration is considering ending.
Read moreFact Sheet: Public Charge Final Rule
Center on Immigration and Child Welfare (Updated April 2020)
This fact sheet provides background and information about changes to the public charge rule, the factors that weigh negatively and positively in a public charge determination, and their implications for immigrant families and their children.
Practice Alert: SIJS Policy Updates and Proposed Regulations
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (November 5, 2019)
This practice alert highlights the key take-aways from three recently adopted AAO decisions and some of the most important elements of the proposed regulations for advocates to challenge through comments, and contains an Appendix with case summaries of the AAO decisions.
Trump administration finalizes refugee cap at lowest level ever
Catholic News Agency (November 4, 2019)
The White House on Sunday finalized its quota of refugee admissions for the 2020 fiscal year, cutting the cap on U.S. refugee admissions to its lowest recorded level.
Read more2 doctors were held by ICE. They say what they saw at one facility shocked them
Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (November 3, 2019)
They’re doctors who became immigration detainees themselves — held for more than a year inside a system that they warn is putting people’s health at risk daily.
Read moreCourt blocks plan to deny visas to would-be immigrants who can’t afford health insurance
Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News (November 3, 2019)
A federal judge in Oregon blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a sweeping plan to deny visas to would-be immigrants based on their inability to show they could pay for health insurance or medical costs in the U.S.
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