Webinar: Current Issues Impacting TPS and DED Clients
Catholic Legal Immigration Network (March 22, 2019)
This webinar reviews recent developments that affect TPS and DED clients, including litigation challenges, advocacy efforts, and best practice recommendations.
More Moms and Kids Withdrawing from Nutrition Program Because of Deportation Fears, Administrators Say
Alfred Lubrano, The Inquirer (March 20, 2019)
Low-income immigrant mothers are skipping the chance to get nutritious foods and help for their infants from a federal program because they fear deportation, or the loss of their children, according to the agencies that distribute those benefits.
Read MoreUS Immigration Agents Find Ways Around ‘Sanctuary’ Policies
, The Washington Post (March 14, 2019)
Two years after New Mexico’s largest county barred local law enforcement from cooperating with immigration authorities, its leaders learned that the policy was being subverted from within. Staff members at the Bernalillo County jail in Albuquerque were still granting immigration authorities access to its database and, in some cases, tipping them off when a person of interest was being released.
Dream and Promise Act Provides Needed Solution for Immigrant Families
CLASP (March 12, 2019)
This statement from CLASP addresses the introduction of the Dream and Promise Act of 2019 (H.R. 6) in the House of Representative. This bill would address the crisis faced by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) beneficiaries and immigrants with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) as a result of the Trump Administration’s actions.
U.S. Continues to Separate Migrant Families Despite Rollback of Policy
Miriam Jordan and Caitlin Dickerson, The New York Times (March 9, 2019)
Nearly nine months after the Trump administration officially rescinded its policy of separating migrant families who have illegally crossed the border, more than 200 migrant children have been taken from parents and other relatives and placed in institutional care, with some spending months in shelters and foster homes thousands of miles away from their parents.
Read MoreThe Trump Administration May Have to Locate and Reunite More Separated Families
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration is responsible for immigrant children who have been taken away from their parents, including those separated before the Department of Homeland Security instituted a “zero tolerance” policy at the border.
Read MoreAsylum-Seekers Can Appeal Fast-Track Deportations, Court Rules
Matthew Schwartz, NPR (March 8, 2019)
A federal court made it harder for the U.S. government to quickly deport asylum-seekers if they fail an initial screening at the border. The ruling could give thousands of asylum-seekers the right to seek review in the federal court system.
Read MoreHHS to Divert up to $385M from Health Programs to Shelter Migrant Children
Jessie Hellmann, The Hill (March 8, 2019)
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will take up to $385 million from programs, including those that fund cancer prevention efforts, to house an increasing number of unaccompanied migrant children in its care.
Read MoreThe Trump Administration Has Deported 471 Parents Separated From Their Kids At The Border
Zoe Tillman, Buzz Feed News (March 6, 2019)
The Trump administration disclosed in a court filing earlier this month that the government deported 471 migrant parents separated from their children at the US–Mexico border without first giving them the option to reunify.
Read MoreAdvocating for the International Child
Susannah Volpe and Pamela Kemp, National Association of Counsel for Children Conference (August 2017)
This article provides an overview of legal options, advocacy strategies, and useful tools for navigating situations in which child welfare and child protection work intersects with immigration enforcement.
Officials Announce Construction of New Facility in Texas to Handle Influx of Migrant Families
Colleen Long, Time (March 5, 2019)
As the number of migrant families crossing the southwest border is again breaking records, officials said they were building a new facility to manage them, while warning the crush is overwhelming border agents and straining facilities.
Read MoreVisualizing Trends for Children of Immigrants
Urban Institute (February, 2016)
This recently updated tool presents data and trends over time on children of immigrants and their parents, families, and households for states and the top 100 metropolitan areas. This information is available starting in 2006 and updated as of March 2019.
The Number of Babies In ICE Detention at the Border Has Shot Upward Since January
Jack Herrera, Pacific Standard (March 1, 2019)
The number of infants under the age of one in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention at the border has increased since January, reaching levels that alarm immigration advocates. By the end of February, it was determined that at least “nine infants under one year of age” were detained in the South Texas Family Residential Center, which is one of the largest family detention centers in the country with 2,400 beds.
Read MoreImmigration Data Matters
Jeanne Batalova, Andriy Shymonyak, and Michelle Mittelstadt, Migration Policy Institute (March 2018)
Webinar: Food Insecurity and Access to Health Care: Critical Issues for the Development of Young Children of Immigrants
Foundation for Child Development (February 2019)
Maintaining Family Values
Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service (March 2019)
This report describes the nationwide comprehensive emergency case-management program that LIRS funded and implemented in summer-fall 2018. The Family Reunification Support Program was designed specifically to support formerly separated families who were released by ICE following their reunification.
HHS Docs Show Thousands of Alleged Incidents of Sexual Abuse Against Unaccompanied Minors in Custody
HHS Docs Show Thousands of Alleged Incidents of Sexual Abuse Against Unaccompanied Minors in Custody
The Department of Health and Human Services received more than 4,500 complaints of sexual abuse against unaccompanied minors from 2014-2018, according to internal agency documents released Tuesday by Florida Democratic Rep. Ted Deutch.
Read MoreCommunities in Crisis: Interior Removals and Their Human Consequences
Kino Border Initiative, The Center for Migration Studies of New York, and the Office of Justice and Ecology (November 2018)
Migrant advocacy groups at the Arizona border are seeing more immigrants being deported after spending many years living in the United States and a new survey by several faith-based groups details the hardships separated families face after a relative is deported.
Research Estimating Impact of Proposed Public Charge Rule: What Study to Use?
Protecting Immigrant Families (November 2018)
This document is a running summary of demographic and economic research estimating the impact of the Trump administration’s proposed public charge rule. The document includes information on each research product’s key findings and data sources and suggests best uses for each product while describing the limitations of each research product.
