Know Your Rights: Five Things Parents Detained by ICE Should Know
CLASP & NILC (November 2025)
This resource for immigrant parents outlines the rights that parents have while being apprehended and detained by ICE. Additional languages are forthcoming.
Changing Origins, Rising Numbers: Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States
Julia Gelatt, Ariel G. Ruiz Soto and James D. Bachmeier, Migration Policy Institute (October 2025)
This fact sheet provides an updated analysis of the undocumented immigrant population in the United States, showing that 6.3 million children live with at least one undocumented parent, and the majority of these children are U.S. citizens.
Newcomer Immigrant Youth in the Bay Area: Uplifting Voices, Identifying Solutions
Melissa Adamson, National Center for Youth Law (2025)
This report lifts up the voices of newcomer youth and service providers in the Bay Area to reveal how systemic barriers deepen inequities despite California’s strong immigrant commitments, and highlights key challenges, recommendations, and an overview of state-funded programs serving these youth.
A Timeline: Tracking How the Second Trump Administration Is Rolling Back Protections for Unaccompanied Children
Kids in Need of Defense (October 6, 2025)
This timeline follows the policy changes that have eroded child welfare and anti-trafficking safeguards for children seeking safety in the United States during the 2nd Trump administration.
CAREing While Talking with Unaccompanied and Separated Children about Immigration Enforcement: Practical Child-Centered Tips and Considerations for Service Providers
Kids in Need of Defense (October 8, 2025)
This guide equips professionals with trauma-informed, child-centered strategies to help children prepare for potential immigration enforcement encounters while managing their emotional well-being and safety.
Public Charge: What Advocates Need to Know About the November 2025 Proposed Rule
National Immigration Law Center (November 18, 2025)
This resource provides an FAQ for advocates about the new public charge rule proposed in November 2025.
Expedited Removal and Unaccompanied Children: An FAQ
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (November 21, 2025)
This resource addresses concerns about the Trump administration’s January 2025 expansion of expedited removal and provides arguments against applying this deportation process to young people who entered as unaccompanied children or have approved SIJS.
‘We have to be good or ICE will get us’: Takeaways from Chicago children caught in immigration raids
‘We have to be good or ICE will get us’: Takeaways from Chicago children caught in immigration raids
Claire Galofaro, AP News (October 28, 2025)
Immigration enforcement actions in Chicago have left families terrified and struggling to explain the incident to children while navigating pervasive fear under the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Armed US immigration agents drive off with toddler after arrest of father
Maanvi Singh, The Guardian (November 5, 2025)
Masked, heavily armed federal immigration agents arrested a U.S. citizen in a Los Angeles Home Depot parking lot and drove away with his toddler, also a U.S. citizen, still in the backseat of his car.
