Collins-Flake Letter to Nielsen and Azar
U.S. Senate (June 16, 2018)
A letter from U.S. Senators Collins and Flake to DHS Secretary Nielsen and HSS Secretary Azar regarding the separation of immigrant families.
Leahy Leads Judiciary Democrats In Letter To Grassley Calling For Hearing On President Trump’s Family Separation Policy
U.S. Senate (June 18, 2018)
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led all Judiciary Committee Democrats sent a letter to Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), calling on him to promptly hold a hearing on the Trump administration’s inhumane family separation policy. Since President Trump announced his “zero-tolerance” policy, nearly 2,500 children – some of them just infants – have been torn away from their families at the border.
Keep Families Together Act
U.S. House of Representatives (June, 18 2018)
The Keep Families Together Act is recently proposed legislation to end the Trump Administration’s policy of separating families at the border. The bill promotes family unity by prohibiting DHS officials from separating children from their parents, except in extraordinary circumstances.
Federal Court Allows ACLU Challenge to Proceed in Case Against Trump Administration’s Family Separation Practice
American Civil Liberties Union (June 6, 2018)
A federal judge ruled that the American Civil Liberties Union’s challenge to the Trump administration’s practice of forcibly separating asylum-seeking parents and young children can proceed.
Proposed Rule Change Threatens Legal Immigrants, U.S.-Born Children
Jennifer Owens, Georgia Budget and Policy Institute (June 6, 2018)
The Trump administration appears likely to propose a change to longstanding immigration rules that could lead immigrants lawfully in the U.S. and their U.S. citizen children to forgo critical benefits such as health coverage and food assistance.
Our Letter to the Department of Homeland Security
Zero to Three (May 30, 2018)
Zero to Three urges the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to stop family separations, and to ensure babies and their parents remain together in environments that allow them to function as a family.
Members of Congress Pledge HELP for Separated Children
Rebecca Ullrich, CLASP (May 23, 2018)
Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) and colleagues in the Senate, along with Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA 40) and colleagues in the House, introduced the Humane Enforcement and Legal Protections (HELP) for Separated Children Act to protect children separated from their parents by immigration enforcement actions.
Read MoreKeeping Immigrant Families Safe in Early Childhood Programs
Rebecca Ullrich, CLASP (May 18, 2018)
Many people are aware that immigration agents aren’t supposed to arrest and apprehend people at places like schools, hospitals, and churches. It’s less widely known that early childhood programs are also protected.
Read MorePotential Effects of Public Charge Changes on Health Coverage for Citizen Children
Samantha Artiga, Anthony Damico, and Rachel Garfield, Kaiser Family Foundation (May 18,2018)
This brief provides an overview of citizen children with a noncitizen parent potentially affected by public charge changes and analyzes three Medicaid/CHIP disenrollment scenarios to illustrate how the changes could potentially affect their health coverage and uninsured rate.
Read MoreThe Effects of Deportation on Families and Communities
Regina Day Langhout, Sara L. Buckingham, Ashmeet Kaur Oberoi, Noé Rubén Chávez, Dana Rusch, Francesca Esposito, & Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar; Society for Community Research and Action (May 16, 2018)
This brief first describes specific aspects of current US immigration policies. It then reviews the empirical literature to describe the effects of deportation on the individual, families, and the broader community.
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