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Number of U.S.-Born Babies with Unauthorized Immigrant Parents Has Fallen Since 2007

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Number of U.S.-Born Babies with Unauthorized Immigrant Parents Has Fallen Since 2007

Jeffrey S. Passel, D’Vera Cohn and John Gramlich, Pew Research Center (November 1, 2018)

About 250,000 babies were born to unauthorized immigrant parents in the United States in 2016, the latest year for which information is available, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of government data. This represents a 36% decrease from a peak of about 390,000 in 2007.

Who Would Be Harmed by Trump’s “Public Charge” Proposal?

By | Federal Policy, Highlighted Resources, Immigration Relief, Law & Policy, Law/Policy Highlight, Topics

Who Would Be Harmed by Trump’s “Public Charge” Proposal?

Jackie Vimo, CLASP (October 30, 2018)

The proposed “public charge” rule from the Trump administration would result in declines of immigrant families’ access to the basics we all need to survive. The proposal would make—and has already made—immigrant families afraid to seek programs that help them stay strong and productive and raise children who thrive.

Challenges to TPS terminations

By | Federal Policy, Highlighted Resources, Immigration Relief, Law & Policy, Law/Policy Highlight, Legal/Law, Topics

Challenges to TPS terminations

Catholic Legal Network, Inc. ( October 12, 2018)

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for nationals of Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti, El Salvador, Nepal, and Honduras. In the wake of these termination decisions, several different cases have been filed in U.S district courts.

Immigration policy, practices, and procedures: The impact on the mental health of Mexican and Central American youth and families.

By | Child Well-Being, Highlighted Resources, Immigrant Families Research, Immigrant Youth, Research, Research Highlight, Topics, Trauma

Immigration policy, practices, and procedures: The impact on the mental health of Mexican and Central American youth and families

Stephanie Torres, Catherine Santiago, Katherine Walts, Maryse Richards, American Psychological Association (October 2018)

This paper reviews current immigration policies for arriving Mexican and Central American immigrants and links to mental health among documented and undocumented immigrant families and youth.

Love Without Borders: Grandfamilies and Immigration

By | Child Well-Being, Deportation, Detention, Family Separation, Highlighted Resources, Immigrant Youth, Kinship Care, Legal Professionals, Practice, Practice Highlight, Social Workers, Topics, Youth & Families

Love Without Borders: Grandfamilies and Immigration

Generations United (2018)

This report highlights the additional hurdles faced by grandfamilies who come together as a result of a parent’s detention or deportation. Those hurdles include restricted access to support and services to help meet the children’s needs, language barriers, and fear of government agencies.

No End in Sight, Why Migrants Give Up on Their U.S. Immigration Cases

By | Deportation, Detention, Federal Policy, Highlighted Resources, Law & Policy, Law/Policy Highlight, Topics

No End in Sight, Why Migrants Give Up on Their U.S. Immigration Cases

Southern Poverty Law Center (October 24, 2018)

Every day, thousands of people are locked away in detention centers – essentially prisons – as they pursue their immigration cases and the hope of a new life in the United States. Many have fled violence and bodily harm in their home countries. But all too often, detained immigrants, particularly in the Deep South, give up on their cases because their conditions of confinement are too crushing to bear.

Changing Public Charge Immigration Rules: The Potential Impact on Children Who Need Care

By | Child Well-Being, Early Childhood, Federal Policy, Highlighted Resources, Law & Policy, Law/Policy Highlight, Public Charge, Topics

Changing Public Charge Immigration Rules: The Potential Impact on Children Who Need Care

Leah Zallman and Karen Finnegan, California Health Care Foundation (October 23, 2018)

This issue brief discusses how the Trump administration changes to the public charge rule could impact Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollment among a particularly vulnerable group: low- and moderate-income children “in need of medical attention,” defined as children with a current or recent medical diagnosis, disability, and/or need for specific therapy.

The High Costs of the Proposed Flores Regulation

By | Child Maltreatment, Child Well-Being, Detention, Highlighted Resources, Immigrant Families Research, Research, Research Highlight, Topics

The High Costs of the Proposed Flores Regulation

Philip E. Wolgin, Center for American Progress (October 19, 2018)

The Center for American Progress estimates that, over a decade, the proposed rule to dissolve the Flores Settlement, which would allow the Trump administration to indefinitely incarcerate children, would cost DHS slightly more than $2 billion at the low end, and as much as $12.9 billion at the high end.

 

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