This document highlights best practices with respect to child welfare agency policy & procedure, workforce training, law and policy, transnational practice, and cross-systems collaboration to support immigrant families.
This report found that inconsistencies in record keeping may never give the exact number of children who were separated or who remain separated a result of ‘Zero Tolerance.’ It also includes recommendations to DHS and HHS.
This free webinar will discuss the latest updates on the public charge ruling, suggestions on how to discuss the latest development on public charge, and how to approach adjustment of status cases.
Read MoreThis research report provides findings that relate to the future of young children from immigrant families in relation to today’s socio-economic and sociopolitical climate. It also includes recommendations for action at the public policy, family, school, and neighborhood levels.
This fact sheet highlights many concerns that have been raised by practitioners surrounding how the new public charge regulations will affect their clients.
After Monday’s Supreme Court decision, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voiced her concerns on the ruling that will allow the Trump administration to move forward with a policy change that will make it harder for immigrants to gain legal status if they are dependent on public assistance.
Read MoreThe Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to enforce a rule that makes it harder for immigrants to obtain green cards or visas if they are dependent on public assistance.
Read MoreThe National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families is now accepting applications for their Research Scholars Program. The Center will award up to two stipends of $7,500 for a 12-month period to scholars interested in pursuing research in one of the Center’s four research priority areas.
Link to ApplyLast month, the House and Senate passed several funding bills that will provide critical funds for the care of unaccompanied migrant and refugee children. This funding also attempts to help improve the conditions in some of the countries where many of these children have fled.
Read MoreAfter state police threatened to separate parents from their children, Mexican authorities took action by removing almost 100 Mexican migrants seeking asylum in the United States from a camp in downtown Ciudad Juarez which is across the border from El Paso, TX.
Read MoreThe Trump administration announced that it will expand a controversial agreement with Guatemala that will send Mexican asylum-seekers to Central America despite opposition by the Mexican government.
Read MoreA new lawsuit will attempt to solve the problem of “aging out” for immigrant children who are ineligible to immigrate with their families.
Read MoreAs the treatment of migrant children is publicly debated, the fate of a six-year-old girl and her father is currently being decided.
Read MoreThe Trump administration began a pilot program that allows the collection of DNA samples of certain migrants and immigrants who are in U.S. immigration custody.
Read MoreA Guatemalan woman who is seeking asylum in Massachusetts is suing the federal government to reunite with her family.
Read MoreSome asylum-seekers who have been returned by U.S. authorities to northern Mexico will now have to travel more than 340 miles to be able to attend their hearings in American immigration courts.
Read MoreThis fact sheet provides a review of the “asylum cooperative agreements” policy that the U.S. signed with El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras which allows the U.S. to send asylum seekers to these countries.
In this report, the Office of Inspector General details that DHS did not have the appropriate information technology (IT) system functionality to track separated migrant families during the execution of the Zero Tolerance Policy. It also details five recommendations for improving the Department’s ability to account for and reunify separated families.
Read MoreYouth who have spent time in the foster care system have the opportunity to participate in an internship on Capitol Hill. The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) is now accepting applications for its 2020 Foster Youth Internship Program (FYI).
Read moreDr. Michael Laposata noticed a disturbing pattern two decades ago, when he was the director of clinical laboratories at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Harvard Medical School professor. The state was taking children from their parents based on mistakes by doctors. Children with bruises or internal bleeding were being misidentified as victims of abuse after doctors missed underlying medical conditions that can cause those same injuries.
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