This practice guidance provides recommendations on what information to include in state court predicate orders for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) in CA as well as sample predicate orders from family, probate, dependency, and delinquency courts.
CLINIC’s Center for Immigrant Integration released its first podcast with recommendations for promoting integration of immigrants in organizations or communities.
This year’s Immigration Law and Policy Conference, hosted by the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., Migration Policy Institute and the Georgetown University Law Center, will include keynotes, policy and legal analysis, and discussion of important immigration topics from a variety of stakeholders, while also offering networking and other activities for attendees.
These resources provide background information on the proposed LIFT the BAR Act, which would restore access to federal public benefits, like Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, etc., for lawfully present immigrants by lifting the five-year bar and addressing other barriers to these critical programs.
This data snapshot, from a larger series documenting Latino families’ experiences during and after the pandemic, indicates that the pandemic’s economic toll impacted Latino children in immigrant families particularly heavily.
This webinar shares best practices from three organizations for building trust with immigrant and refugee families, youth, and children, including how to forge deeper relationships and build trust with immigrant family clients across school systems, home visiting programs, and more.
This report reviews the lasting impacts and problems 2 years after the 2019 ICE raids in Mississippi and provides recommendations for a path forward. Read previous report here too.
The Protecting Immigrant Families (PIF) Coalition, a network anchored by the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), and a steering committee of 15 other member organizations, has an immediate opening for a PIF Director.
This brief reviews topics addressed during a workshop on immigrant families’ access to U.S. social programs and the implications for children’s mental, emotional, behavioral, and physical well-being.
Through a program called Navegadores Escolares, Spanish-speaking residents will assist Spanish-speaking immigrant families navigate the Montclair school system and the broader community.
A $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package proposed by Democrats includes a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants in the U.S.
As immigrants were some of the hardest hit by the pandemic and experienced high levels of unemployment, extending tax credits to include more of these families would help millions throughout the U.S.
Attorneys are still trying to identify and reunite the parents of 337 migrant children who were separated at the US-Mexico border under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy. This number is down from 368 in June.
A federal judge has overturned the Biden administration’s attempted repeal of the Migrant Protection Protocol, which was implemented by the Trump administration to require immigrants and asylum seekers to remain in Mexico pending their immigration court hearings in the U.S.
Father José Luis Ruiz Arévalos was unexpectedly denied his green card under the Trump era public charge rule, separating him indefinitely from his wife and four children in the U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security has announced it will be implementing a new case management program, the Alternatives to Detention program, which recruits help from nonprofits to track and offer supportive services to migrants.
A Nevada federal judge has ruled that Section 1326, which makes it a felony to reenter the U.S. after being deported, is unconstitutional as it was enacted with discriminatory intent against Latinos, violating the Equal Protection Clause.
The End SIJS Backlog Coalition has announced a lawsuit against USCIS, seeking data on the Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) backlog.
A Texas federal judge has blocked Biden administration guidance that limits who Immigration and Customs Enforcement should arrest or deport from the United States.
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