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State Immigration Enforcement Policies: How they Impact Low-Income Households

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State Immigration Enforcement Policies: How they Impact Low-Income Households

Heather Koball, Julia Gelatt, Hamutal Bernstein, Charmaine Runes, and Eleanor Pratt, National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) (May 2017)

Researchers at NCCP, Urban Institute, and Migration Policy Institute looked at how the changing immigration policy environment is likely to affect immigrant families. Specifically, the report examines whether immigrant families living in states that ramped up enforcement of federal policy saw any changes in their material hardship, or how often fear of deportation affected their ability to pay for essentials (such as rent, utilities, or food).

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Trauma and Psychological Distress in Latino Citizen Children Following Parental Detention and Deportation

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Trauma and Psychological Distress in Latino Citizen Children Following Parental Detention and Deportation

Lisseth Rojas-Flores, Mari L. Clements, and J. Hwang Koo, Fuller Theological Seminary (2017)

This study explores the mental health impact of parental detention and deportation on U.S. citizen children as potentially traumatic events that may cause post-traumatic stress disorder and psychological distress.

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Under Trump, Border Patrol Steps up Searches far From the Border

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Under Trump, Border Patrol Steps up Searches far From the Border

Ron Nixon, The New York Times (Feb 21, 2018)

Border Patrol officers are working without permission on private property and setting up checkpoints up to 100 miles away from the border under a little-known federal law that is being used more widely in the Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration.

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U.S. is separating immigrant parents and children to discourage others, activists say

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U.S. is separating immigrant parents and children to discourage others, activists say

Molly Hennesy-Fiske, The Los Angeles Times (Feb 20, 2018)

According to public defenders and immigrant advocates, more and more immigrant families who come to the southern border seeking asylum are being charged in federal criminal courts from El Paso to Arizona. Comprehensive statistics do not exist, but activists and attorneys say anecdotal evidence suggests the practice is spreading.

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By deporting 200,000 Salvadorans, Trump may be boosting gang recruitment

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By deporting 200,000 Salvadorans, Trump may be boosting gang recruitment

Micaela Sviatschi, Washington Post (Feb 12, 2018)

Last month, the Trump administration announced plans to revoke temporary protected status for Salvadorans, without attention to the fact that current gangs the result of a previous massive U.S. deportation wave of Salvadoran gang members in the 1990s, meaning that cycle could repeat itself.

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Senators Concerned Over Trump Administration’s Proposal to Separate Immigrant Children from Parents

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Senators Concerned Over Trump Administration’s Proposal to Separate Immigrant Children from Parents

Office of Sen. Kamala D. Harris, Yuba Net (Feb 12, 2018)

U.S. Senators Kamala D. Harris (D-CA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) led a group of senators on Monday in condemning the Trump Administration’s proposal to systemically separate immigrant children from their parents upon arrival in the United States and asked Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to reject the measure.

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