The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies is seeking submissions for a proposed special issue focusing on how researchers and communities are adapting CBPR methodologies to prioritize safety, trust, and community expertise amid growing sociopolitical threats and surveillance concerns.
This article examines how the debate over child welfare system abolition or reform has overlooked the Office of Refugee Resettlement and the unaccompanied immigrant children it serves, calling for greater data access and participatory research to inform policy and practice.
This report draws on interviews with 56 immigrant parents and 67 service providers across seven states to paint a stark picture of how the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement has destabilized families with young children, eroding their sense of safety in even the most everyday spaces.
This interactive tool estimates how many children — including U.S. citizens — have likely been separated from a detained parent under different enforcement scenarios.
This policy brief documents how the Trump administration’s immigration policies are separating families and undermining children’s rights and safety, and calls for an urgent recommitment to protections that prioritize family unity and children’s well-being.
This spotlight documents how escalating ICE and CBP enforcement is deterring unaccompanied children from accessing public education amid emerging threats to the Plyler v. Doe ruling that guarantees all children the right to attend school regardless of immigration status.
This website, which is continually updated, includes a complete compilation of Trump 1.0 and 2.0 immigration policies, in an indexed, summarized, and searchable format with key source documents.
This toolkit offers research-backed, trauma-informed strategies and practical guidance to help clinical and non-clinical service providers support the well-being, resilience, and dignity of unaccompanied and separated children across a range of settings.
This practice alert breaks down USCIS’s April 2026 memo terminating automatic deferred action consideration for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) petitioners, with guidance on how the change affects petitions filed before and after the May 10 effective date.
This practice guide equips service providers with trauma-informed, child-centered strategies — grounded in the CARE framework — to support children and youth experiencing prolonged detention in ORR custody and beyond.
The Emmy-winning 2019 documentary Kids Caught in the Crackdown, which investigated the historic surge in migrant children detained under Trump’s first term and its lasting psychological toll, is now free to stream on YouTube for the first time.
A newly filed class-action lawsuit accuses Washington state’s child welfare system of failing to protect immigrant youth in its custody by neglecting their immigration-related legal needs, leaving them vulnerable to deportation and unable to access public benefits.
Federal data shows an increase in children entering foster care due to parental detention or deportation from 156 to 232 cases between fiscal years 2024 and 2025. The figures, drawn from only 34 states, are considered an undercount of the family separation occuring under Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
This analysis found that during the first seven months of Trump’s second term, the administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 children, doubling Biden-era deportation rates and sparking what advocates call an unprecedented family separation crisis.
Under the Trump administration’s stricter vetting procedures, the average stay for unaccompanied migrant children in government shelters has ballooned from 30 days to roughly 200 days.
This analysis estimates that more than 145,000 U.S. citizen children have likely experienced a parent detained by ICE since January 2025, with tens of thousands more affected by deportation.
Nearly half a million immigrants have been detained since Trump’s second term began, but the fate of the U.S. citizen children they leave behind remains largely unknown.
Over 800,000 U.S. citizen children in Texas have an undocumented parent, and Trump’s immigration enforcement is fracturing those families.
The Trump administration’s sharp decline in migrant border crossings has led to the closure of a historic South Florida Catholic Charities shelter for unaccompanied minors.
The Trump administration has reversed a decades-old policy, now requiring foreigners seeking green cards to leave the U.S. and apply from their home countries.
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