This solidarity guide offers practical guidance for anyone who wants to protect and support immigrant neighbors and communities amid intensifying enforcement.
A pilot study of a school-based immigrant rights education program found high levels of empowerment and well-being among 137 participants, with a direct link between legal rights empowerment and psychological well-being across all three program versions.
A study of nearly 400,000 immigration court cases finds that unaccompanied minors’ access to legal representation is shaped not only by geography and resource availability but also by client characteristics like gender, age, nationality, and Indigeneity, highlighting deep inequities in who receives counsel in removal proceedings.
This brief summarizes Trump’s two August 2026 executive orders on birth tourism and birthright citizenship and identifies the harms they pose to U.S.-born children.
This analysis finds that federal investments in children have declined for the fifth straight year, with the Trump administration’s proposed budget cutting $1.842 billion in funding for immigrant and refugee children, including from Title I Migrant Education, refugee assistance programs, and English language acquisition grants.
This workbook, available in multiple languages, helps parents facing possible deportation make a plan for their children’s care in the event of separation, with guidance on key decisions and next steps.
A Chicago immigration judge ordered six children, ages 12 to 17, deported after they were deemed abandoned by state courts—despite each having a pending Special Immigrant Juvenile Status application that attorneys argued should protect them from removal.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Trump’s second attempt to restrict birthright citizenship via executive order, coming just months after the Supreme Court struck down his first attempt as unconstitutional.
New York and 21 other states are suing to block a new DHS public charge rule that would give immigration officials broader discretion to deny green cards, visas, and entry based on applicants’ potential use of government benefits.
The Trump administration has ordered caregivers for migrant children to stop reporting human trafficking concerns directly to the office created to help victims, a move critics say will make vulnerable minors easier to deport before they can access services or legal protections.
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