Webinar: Public Charge Under the New Rule
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (September 17, 2019)
This webinar is designed to help you understand changes made to public charge, who is impacted, and how to screen and advise clients.
Link to WebinarMigrant Kids Split at Border Were Harmed in Foster Care, Claims Say
USA Today (August 16, 2019)
Foster care programs are meant to provide migrant children with care while authorities work to connect them with parents, relatives or other sponsors. But instead the boy told a counselor he was repeatedly sexually molested by other boys in the foster home.
Read MoreSeparation of Families via the ‘Migrant Protection Protocols’
Leah Chavla, Women’s Refugee Commission (August 16, 2019)
The Women’s Refugee Commission filed this complaint to the Department of Homeland Security on behalf of numerous families who were separated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials along the U.S. southwestern border, where at least some member(s) of the family were placed into the administration’s so-called Migrant Protection Protocols and sent back to Mexico.
Central American Immigrants in the United States
Allison O’Conner, Jeanne Batalova, & Jessica Bolter, Migration Policy Institute (August 15, 2019)
Increasing arrivals at the U.S.-Mexico border of migrants and asylum seekers from Central America in 2018 and 2019 significantly tested the capacity of the U.S. immigration system. Nearly half of the approximately 3.5 million Central American immigrants residing in the United States as of 2017 came before 2000
Public Charge: Community Messages
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (August 14, 2019)
This resource contains core messages you can share with community members to help combat the chilling effect this rule may have.
The Department of Homeland Security Public Charge Final Rule
Center for Study of Social Policy (August 14, 2019)
This FAQ on the DHS 2019 public charge rule provides responses to the most commonly asked questions related to this rule change.
Advocates Vow to Block Trump Attack on Millions of Families and American Democracy
CLASP (August 12, 2019)
Advocates for immigrant families and economic opportunity spoke out against a new Trump administration regulation that aims to prevent millions of families from accessing health care and other programs or risk denial of lawful permanent status in the United States.
Read MoreStrengthening Child Welfare Practice for Immigrant Children & Families: A Toolkit for Child Welfare Professionals in California
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (August 12, 2019)
With half of all children in California coming from an immigrant family, child welfare agencies in California must be equipped to effectively support immigrant children and families on the pathway to permanency. The objective of this toolkit is to provide guidance to child welfare agencies in California working with immigrant children and families.
New Trump Administration Rule Cracks Down on Welfare Benefits Use by Legal Immigrants
Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News (August 12, 2019)
The Trump administration rolled out a key item in its hardline immigration agenda that had been months in the making, issuing a sweeping rule on Monday that targets legal immigrants who use welfare benefits like food stamps and government-subsidized housing.
Read MoreICE Raid in Mississippi Deals Another Traumatizing Blow to Children on Trump’s Watch
Cortnie McGinnis, Helen Barahal, & Omar Etman, NBC (August 9, 2019)
For children at the border, the dual trauma of institutionalization and separation, on top of whatever trauma they may have endured during the often-harrowing journey to the United States, may prove developmentally destructive in ways that will reverberate long after the current administration is gone.
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