Featured Issue: 2019 Large-Scale Enforcement Actions and Raids
American Immigration Lawyers Association (August 2019)
This webpage provides various resources to assist in responding to large-scale immigration enforcement actions and raids.
A Trump Administration Proposal is Scaring Immigrant Families Away from Public Benefits
Gabrielle Jacobovitz, Huffpost (August 7, 2019)
The Trump administration’s proposed changes to a regulation affecting green card and visa applications have prompted immigrants to forgo accessing public benefits, according to an Urban Institute study released on Wednesday.
Read MoreEarly Learning Specialist/Home Visitor Procedures – If ICE Knocks on the Door During a Home Visit
Parent Child Plus (August 2019)
This resource provides know-your-rights information and guidance on procedures for home visitors and other professionals for situations in which ICE comes to a family’s home during a home visit.
Trump’s Immigration Proposals Don’t Need to Happen to Cause Harm. That’s The Point.
Gabrielle Jacobovitz, Huffpost (August 2, 2019)
Though Trump has followed through on many similarly harsh anti-immigrant plans, others remain simply threats. But dispersed through proposals, tweets, public provocations, leaks and the media, those unrealized proposals have already had dramatic consequences.
Read MoreMexicans Decline to Less Than Half the U.S. Unauthorized Immigrant Population for the First Time
Jeffrey S. Passel & D’vera Cohn, Pew Research Center (June 12, 2019)
This article details the decline in Mexicans who make up the U.S. undocumented immigrant population while an increase has been noted in lawful U.S. immigrants.
From Control to Crisis: Changing Trends and Policies Reshaping U.S.-Mexico Border Enforcement
Randy Capps, Doris Meissner, Ariel G. Ruiz Soto, Jessica Bolter, & Sarah Pierce, Migration Policy Institute (August 2019)
This report provides data and information on the changed characteristics of migration reaching the U.S.-Mexico border. It concludes with addressing the crisis gripping the border and calls for a transformation.
Doctors Call for Investigation after 3 Migrant Children in Custody Die of Flu
CBS News (August 1, 2019)
Doctors associated with Harvard and Johns Hopkins called for an investigation into health care at border facilities in a letter to members of Congress Thursday. The letter comes in response to the deaths of six migrant children either in government custody or soon after their release.
Read MoreWorker Speaks Out about Conditions Inside Facility for Unaccompanied Minors near Homestead
Jim DeFede, CBS Miami (August 1, 2019)
For the first time, an employee inside Homestead is speaking out – offering unique insights into how the migrant children are being treated.
Read MoreACLU Says More Than 900 Migrant Children Separated from Parents in Last Year
Daniella Silva, NBC News (July 30, 2019)
The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge Tuesday to block the Trump administration from continuing to separate migrant children from their parents, saying in court documents that more than 900 children have been separated from their parents since the practice was ordered to be stopped last year.
Read MoreRethinking U.S. Immigration Policy: Building a Responsive, Effective Immigration System
Migration Policy Institute (August 12, 2019)
The Migration Policy Institute is launching a major new initiative—Rethinking U.S. Immigration Policy—that aims to generate a big-picture, evidence-driven vision of the role immigration can and should play in America’s future. This multi-year initiative will provide research, analysis, and policy ideas and proposals. This conference will be the launching of this initiative and will include a discussion among individuals from both political parties.
Link to RegistrationEarly Bird Conference Registration: “Beyond Separation: Protecting Cross Border Families”
International Social Service (Early Bird Registration open until August 31, 2019)
This two-day event will take place on October 17th and 18th, 2019 at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. This conference will allow legal, judicial, social service, and advocacy professionals to share and implement best practices to protect the long term safety of cross border children and families.
Link to Early Bird RegistrationThe Trump Administration Isn’t Providing Legal Aid to Migrant Children in Temporary Shelter
Angelina Chapin, Huffpost (July 19, 2019)
The Office of Refugee Resettlement, the government agency that operates all shelters for migrant children, has confirmed it has not yet contracted with any legal aid providers to give the kids access to counsel. The children face deportation proceedings and are already getting court dates, according to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), which has stepped in to offer free legal counsel in the absence of a contract.
Read MoreThey Are Human Beings: Homeland Security Faulted for Treatment of Migrant Children
Zolano Kanno-Youngs, The New York Times (July 18, 2019)
Democratic lawmakers accused Kevin K. McAleenan, the acting secretary of homeland security, of leading an agency with an “empathy deficit” during a hearing on Thursday that focused on the separation of migrant children from their parents and reports of poor conditions at holding facilities near the border.
Read MoreAmericans Are Complicit in Border Camp Abuses
Tova Walsh & Michael J. Mackenzie, The American Prospect (July 16, 2019)
The conditions at border detention facilities provide irrefutable evidence of the child maltreatment that President Trump commits in our names—and state officials need to take action to end the cruelty.
Read MoreKnow Your Rights Information on ICE Raids for Parents/Community/Attorneys
KIND (July 15, 2019)
The below is a collection of Know Your Rights resources to help prepare parents, community members, and attorneys on ICE raids on the sponsors of unaccompanied children and families.
House Report: At Least 18 Migrant Children Under the Age of 2 Were Separated from Parents for 20 Days to 6 Months
Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (July 12, 2019)
At least 18 migrant infants and toddlers under the age of two were separated from their parents at the border “including nine infants under the age of one,” according to a report released Friday by the House Oversight Committee.
Read MoreICE Raid Targeting Thousands of Families Nationwide Are Planned for Sunday
Hamed Aleaziz, BuzzFeed News (July 11, 2019)
An operation to arrest thousands of undocumented immigrant families in several cities across the US is expected to begin Sunday, and one of the largest family detention centers has stopped booking new detainees to clear space to hold them, according to two sources with knowledge of the plans.
Read MoreHungry, Scared and Sick: Inside the Migrant Detention Center in Clint, Tex.
Simon Romero, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Manny Fernandez, Daniel Borunda, Aaron Montes, & Caitlin Dickerson, The New York Times (July 9, 2019)
The little-known Border Patrol facility at Clint has suddenly become the public face of the chaos on America’s southern border, after immigration lawyers began reporting on the children they saw — some of them as young as 5 months old — and the filthy, overcrowded conditions in which they were being held.
Read MoreMigrant Kids in Overcrowded Arizona Border Station Allege Sexual Assault, Retaliation from U.S. Agents
Jacob Soboroff & Julia Ainsley, NBC News (July 9, 2019)
The poor treatment of migrant children at the hands of U.S. border agents in recent months extends beyond Texas to include allegations of sexual assault and retaliation for protests, according to dozens of accounts by children held in Arizona collected by government case managers and obtained by NBC News.
Read MoreChildhood Adversity Screenings Are Just One Part of an Effective Policy Response to Childhood Trauma
Childhood Adversity Screenings Are Just One Part of an Effective Policy Response to Childhood Trauma
David Murphey & Jessica Dym Bartlett, Child Trends (July 9, 2019)
This article reviews policy recommendations that policymakers can implement in the response to childhood trauma.
