The United States government’s inability to account for thousands of migrant children reflects a broader problem regarding the lack of due process rights in the country’s immigration system.
Read MoreThe Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notified Congress on Wednesday that it plans to transfer up to $186 million from its programs to help cover the costs of housing a growing number of immigrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Read MoreThis fact sheet provides an overview of the proposed changes to “public charge” policies and its implications for health and health coverage of legal immigrant families and their predominantly U.S.-born children.
This fact sheet describes proposed Trump administration changes to the “public charge” policy, how it would harm health and well-being, and what you need to know if you work with immigrant families. Available in English and Spanish.
The drama of parents being separated from their children at the border dominated the headlines this year, but thousands of immigrant families are experiencing a similar frustration: the increasing hurdles they must surmount to take custody of sons, daughters and relatives who crossed the border on their own.
Read MoreEight weeks after the federal government missed deadlines to reunite more than 2,600 migrant children separated from their parents at the Southwest border, fewer than 200 children remain in U.S. care.
Read MoreFederal officers have arrested dozens of undocumented immigrants who came forward to take care of undocumented immigrant children in government custody, and the Trump administration is pledging to go after more.
Read MoreThe proposed termination of the Flores settlement would expand the government’s ability to detain children for longer periods in family detention facilities and to lessen the standards it is required to meet in detaining unaccompanied children. This fact sheet reviews exactly what these expanded abilities would be.
Read MoreThe Trump administration is unable to account for the whereabouts of nearly 1,500 migrant children who illegally entered the United States alone this year and were placed with sponsors after leaving federal shelters.
Read MoreThis report builds on a previous report that documented the impact of the Trump administration immigration policy environment on immigrant families’ health and wellbeing by exploring the direct impacts of detention and deportation on family finances, health, and well-being.
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