DHS Sensitive Locations Policy outlines how and to what extent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) can engage in enforcement actions in sensitive locations such as schools, places of worship and hospitals. This resource is available for download in both English and Spanish.
View ResourceThis resource for child welfare social workers provides updates on immigration policy affecting children and families, discusses how immigration enforcement impacts the child welfare system, describes protections that exist to help keep immigrant families intact, and provides resources for social workers to support and work more effectively with immigrant families.
View ResourceThis study describes how recent immigrant policy changes and news are impacting the lives of Latina/o immigrant parents raising adolescent children.
View StudyThis publication presents an overview of state laws that designate the officials and entities that may have access to the confidential records of child abuse and neglect reports and investigations, the circumstances under which information may be disclosed, and the appropriate use of confidential information. Public disclosure of information in cases of child abuse-related fatalities or near fatalities also is addressed. Summaries of laws related to these issues for all states and U.S. territories are included.
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This fact sheet provides information to immigrant parents regarding their parental rights and what to do if they are separated from their children at the border.
View Fact Sheet (English) View Fact Sheet (Spanish)This article highlights the signing and implementation of the TRUST Act by Governor Bruce Rauner in Chicago, IL which took place in August. This law denies local law enforcement the ability to detain people on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal agency charged with identifying and investigating immigrants present in the country illegally. It also prohibits local officials from inquiring about a person’s immigration status.
Read ArticleThis report documents how the current immigration context is affecting our nation’s youngest children, under age eight, based on interviews and focus groups in 2017 with more than 150 early childhood educators and parents in six states—California, Georgia, Illinois, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
Read ReportThis study investigates the relationship between immigrant parent legal status and academic performance among U.S.-born children, ages 7–10.
Read ArticleThe author explores and explains the short-term and long-term impact of deportation and immigration enforcement on children in Mexican immigrant families.
Read ArticleThis advisory provides an overview of hardship in waivers: when you need to prove hardship, whose hardship counts, and what is hardship.
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