Public Benefits for Immigrants: A Guide for Practitioners
National Immigration Law Center (November 5, 2025)
This guide helps practitioners understand and navigate the complicated and changing rules around public benefits eligibility for immigrants.
Before ICE: A Guide for Parents at Risk of Deportation or Detention
Documented (July 30, 2025)
This guide provides important steps for parents at risk of detention or deportation to consider to ensure their child’s well-being.
State Child Safety Plans
Appleseed Network (2025)
These state-specific guides help immigrant families create safety plans for their children in case of detention or deportation, providing information on custody options, legal forms, vital records, and consulate contacts.
CICW 2025 Year-in-Review
Center on Immigration & Child Welfare Initiative (December 2025)
This 2025 “year-in-review” highlights the CICW’s work throughout 2025. Thank you to all our partners and collaborators for your continued support. We look forward to continuing our efforts to support immigrant children and families in 2026.
Working with Traumatized Children
Child Welfare League of America • Thursdays, January 8, 15 & 22, 2026 • 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm ET
CWLA is offering a three-part virtual training series based on the third edition of “Working with Traumatized Children – A Handbook for Healing,” which will teach participants how to recognize trauma symptoms, understand trauma’s impact on children’s brains, create safe environments, and implement effective healing strategies while practicing self-care.
Beyond “Shock and Awe”: Immigration Actions in the First Year under Trump 2.0
Migration Policy Institute • January 13, 2026 • 10amPT/1pmET
This webinar will analyze Trump’s first-year immigration actions, including mass deportations, refugee restrictions, and travel bans on 39 countries, examining their legal basis and actual effects on labor markets, communities, and future immigration to the United States.
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Mica Rosenberg, Mario Ariza, McKenzie Funk, Jeff Ernsthausen and Gabriel Sandoval; ProPublica (November 24, 2025)
ICE has placed more immigrant children in federal shelters this year than the previous four years combined, with kids now spending an average of six months in custody under Trump compared to one month under Biden.
Unaccompanied migrant children being sent to Texas border to be deported, lawyers say
Sandra Sanchez, Border Report (December 9, 2025)
The Trump administration has transferred dozens of unaccompanied migrant children from inside the U.S. to four detention facilities in South Texas where they are being held while awaiting deportation.
About 400 immigrant children were detained longer than the recommended limit, ICE admits
Valerie Gonzalez, AP News (December 9, 2025)
Hundreds of immigrant children have been held in federal detention beyond legal time limits, with some detained for over five months, raising alarms among legal advocates about the government’s failure to protect these children.
Trump administration separates thousands of migrant families in the U.S.
Gisela Salomon, Associated Press (December 11, 2025)
Trump’s current immigration enforcement is separating families differently than in his first-term – officials are detaining tens of thousands of migrants and asylum-seekers inside the U.S., holding a record 66,000 people in often poor conditions while deporting others and dividing families of mixed legal status.
