A two-year-old child was forcibly separated from her parents by the Trump administration, with her mother deported to Venezuela and her father imprisoned in El Salvador.
Advocates raise concerns about conditions for children in federal government custody and the resulting long-lasting trauma family detention causes.
Fear of child separation policies and concerns of children’s right violations are growing in the wake of recent deportations of US-citizen children.
The Trump administration is conducting a nationwide review of 450,000 unaccompanied migrant children, under the guise of ensuring their safety, raising concerns among advocates that the review may be used to deport sponsors or children without documentation.
Advocacy groups are suing the Trump Administration to challenge new procedures that have tripled the time migrant children spend in government custody before reunification with sponsors.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement’s mission appears to be changing under the Trump administration toward assisting with immigration enforcement efforts.
US citizen children deported with their undocumented parent stand to face many challenges if they wish to return to the U.S.
CICW Director speaks to how ICE is using welfare checks on unaccompanied minors as an immigration enforcement strategy and the importance of families creating “preparedness plans” for such encounters.
The Trump administration is seeking to end the Flores Settlement Agreement, which has long provided protections to child migrants in federal custody.
Girasol has 3 upcoming trainings on topics related to working with immigrant populations, including:
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