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Mixed-Status Families and Immigrant Families with Children Continued Avoiding Safety Net Programs in 2023

By | Immigrant Families Research, Public Charge, Research, Research Highlight

Mixed-Status Families and Immigrant Families with Children Continued Avoiding Safety Net Programs in 2023

Dulce Gonzalez, Hamutal Bernstein, Michael Karpman, Genevieve M. Kenney; Urban Institute (August 7, 2024)

This report provides updated estimates of chilling effects on pubic safety net program use among immigrant families.

Latinx Immigrant Health: Does Immigrants’ Perceptions of Integration Protect their Health?

By | Deportation, Immigrant Families Research, Immigration Enforcement, Research, Research Highlight

Latinx Immigrant Health: Does Immigrants’ Perceptions of Integration Protect their Health?

Mirella Deniz-Zaragoza, Esaú Casimiro Vieyra, and Cecilia Ayón; Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences (September 9, 2024)

This study explored the relationship between immigrants’ perceptions of integration and their self-rated health and psychological distress

Practical Solutions that Protect Unaccompanied Children Seeking Safety

By | Child Well-Being, Family Separation, Federal Policy, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Law & Policy, Law/Policy Highlight, Legal/Law, Safety, Unaccompanied Minors

Practical Solutions that Protect Unaccompanied Children Seeking Safety

Kids in Needs of Defense (September 24, 2024)

This blueprint reviews issues and policies impacting unaccompanied children and provides recommendations the U.S. government can take to improve child protection and well-being.

Protecting Immigrant Children: A Public Health of Consequence

By | Child Well-Being, Immigrant Families Research, Immigration Enforcement, Research, Research Highlight, Safety

Protecting Immigrant Children: A Public Health of Consequence

Farzana Kapadia, American Journal of Public Health (February 21, 2024)

This article explores how policies, practices, and anti-immigrant rhetoric have eroded the safety and well-being of immigrant children and their families and provides recommendations to address these negative impacts.

Cruel Indifference: Family Separation at the U.S.-Mexico Border Before and After Zero Tolerance

By | Family Separation, Immigrant Families Research, Immigration Enforcement, Research, Research Highlight

Cruel Indifference: Family Separation at the U.S.-Mexico Border Before and After Zero Tolerance

Immigrants’ Rights Policy Clinic, UCLA School of Law (June 2024)

This white paper explores two misconceptions: 1) that family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border began under the Trump administration; and 2) that they ended with the election of President Biden, arguing that family separation has been a longtime feature of CBP enforcement, and continues today.

Issue Brief: Insights from OIG’s Work on the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s Efforts to Care for Unaccompanied Children

By | Federal Policy, Immigrant Youth, Law & Policy, Law/Policy Highlight, Unaccompanied Minors

Issue Brief: Insights from OIG’s Work on the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s Efforts to Care for Unaccompanied Children

Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (March 7, 2024)

This issue brief provides insights from the Office of Inspector General’s (OIG’s) oversight of ORR’s Unaccompanied Children Program.

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