Doing Better By Refugee And Immigrant Families
Louise El Yaafouri, Hunt Daily News (September 1, 2022)
This article gives specific tips on how educators can connect with and support refugee and new immigrant families.
Dozens of Migrant Children Reported Missing in Houston, Raising Alarms
Kristina Cooke, Mica Rosenberg and Ted Hesson, Reuters (September 2, 2022)
Dozens of unaccompanied minor children have been reported missing in Houston, in addition to many who have been missing since last year, and federal and local officials are struggling to locate them.
Feds Seek to Toss DACA Challenge, Say Regulations Make Case Moot
Andrew Kreighbaum, Bloomberg Law (September 2, 2022)
The GOP-led states’ legal arguments against the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program will no longer matter once the Biden administration’s new regulations take effect.
DHS Unwinds Trump-era ‘Public Charge’ Rule for Immigrants
Kelly Garrity, Politico (September 8, 2022)
The Department of Homeland Security has finalized a new public charge regulation, undoing the Trump era policy that sought to limit immigration benefits for immigrants who use government aid.
Judge: ICE Violated Federal Law by Holding Migrant Teens in Adult Custody
Paul Ingram, Tuscon Sentinel (September 9,2022)
Following a ruling that transferring minor children to adult detention centers right when they turn 18 was illegal, a judge ruled that ICE violated federal law by holding teens.
Family-Based Immigration Backlogs
Andrew Moriarty, FWD.us (September 14, 2022)
The waitlist for green cards for family-based immigrants has made lawful immigration and reunification unimaginably difficult for millions of families who must sometimes wait decades apart.
Florida, Texas Escalate Flights, Buses to Move Migrants
Associated Press, Boston Herald (September 15, 2022)
Republican governors from Texas and Florida have been sending buses and flights of immigrants to Democratic stronghold states in an attempt to demonstrate the Biden administration’s failure to deal with the influx of immigrants along the border, including two flights to Martha’s Vineyard paid for by Florida.
Biden Guts Public Charge Rule, But Immigrants Still Fearful
Sunita Sohrabji, Inquirer.net (September 19, 2022)
Although the Biden Administration has altered the public charge rule so that it no longer penalizes immigrants who may use social services, immigrants fear whether the changes will hold up in a new administration.
‘It’s all behind us now.’ 1,700 Migrant Children See Hope In Nation’s Largest School System
Polo Sandoval, CNN (September 20, 2022)
Hundreds of asylum seekers find hope in the New York Public School System and more funding is needed in these schools to provide adequate support to students and their families.
