This practice advisory offers guidance to help practitioners navigate removal proceedings for clients with pending or approved SIJS.
This guide offers tools and resources to educators and school support staff to help support and prepare youth and families for immigration enforcement actions.
This multilingual guide, updated weekly, includes the latest immigration policy updates, legal status updates, Know Your Rights resources, and guidance on raids, detention, deportation, and finding local legal support.
This brief examines the challenges immigrant families with children face in accessing basic housing, food, and healthcare needs, along with their immigration-related fears about using services and concerns about deportation and policy changes.
This policy brief, co-authored by Dr. Kristina Lovato, Director of CICW, presents the first comprehensive analysis of state-level guidance on immigration enforcement in schools following federal changes to the Sensitive Locations Policy.
Organizations and individuals can submit comments to USCIS on two recent agency actions that harm youth with Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS): (1) a USCIS policy change that eliminates the SIJS Deferred Action Policy, and (2) proposed changes to Form G-325A that would eliminate requests for deferred action based on SIJS. The deadline for comments addressing #1 is July 7, 2025 11:59pm ET and for #2 is July 28, 2025 11:59pm ET.
The End SIJS Backlog Coalition is tracking implementation of USCIS’s deferred action policy for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) youth who are awaiting a visa to share general trends with the field and media and as part of advocacy efforts to end the SIJS backlog. Complete this form to report outcomes of SIJS deferred action-based work authorization requests (Form I-765, based on category (c)(14)).
Trump administration policies have caused unaccompanied minors to spend more time in federal custody before being released to relatives – an average of 217 days compared to 35 days during the Biden administration.
The Trump administration has been sending immigration enforcement agents to conduct “wellness checks” on unaccompanied. minors, causing fear among immigrant children and families.
A CNN report revealed that approximately 500 children have been taken back into government custody following “welfare checks” by ICE agents.
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