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 MoreTwo 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.
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.
Nearly nine months after the Trump administration officially rescinded its policy of separating migrant families who have illegally crossed the border, more than 200 migrant children have been taken from parents and other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 MoreA 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 MoreA 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 MoreThe 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 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 MoreAs 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 MoreThis 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.
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