The Budget Reconciliation Law will harm unaccompanied children and families
Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights (August 14, 2025)
This resources describes the impacts of the budget reconciliation law on immigrant child and families.
Trump Administration 2.0 Immigration Updates
ABA Children’s Immigration Law Academy (July 29, 2025)
This resource provides a summary of the executive orders and other policies impacting unaccompanied children in the first six months of the Trump administration.
Fact Sheet for Child Welfare & Guardianship Stakeholders: ICE Policies and Standards Related to Detained Parents & Legal Guardians
U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (July 2025)
This fact sheet reviews ICE policies and standards for child welfare stakeholders under the Detained Parents Directive, revised in July 2025.
Facilitating Visitation: Parents in ICE Custody & Minor Children
U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (July 2025)
This flyer reviews how to locate a parent in ICE detention and who to contact to facilitate visitation between parents and minor children.
We don’t turn away families”: Systematic support of immigrant families with young children during and after the COVID pandemic
Carolina Villamil Grest, Megan Finno-Velasquez, Anayeli Lopez, & Sophia Sepp; Journal of Human Rights and Social Work (2023)
This study along the US-Mexico border found that local-level solutions including community organizing, immigrant inclusion in agency practices, community partnerships, and sanctuary policies can help overcome structural barriers and ensure equitable access to health and social services for immigrant families.
Behind the Scenes: Mapping How State and Local Governments Implement Language Access Measures
Migration Policy Institute (May 2025)
This report examines how state and local governments implement language access measures, finding that while there’s no universal approach, governments can learn from existing efforts and adapt strategies to their own contexts and needs.
“It’s Horrible to Live Like This”: Immigration Policy’s Real-Time Impact on Young Children
Juliana Zhou & Elisa Minoff, Center for the Study of Social Policy (July 16, 2025)
This brief details interviews with child care providers who report that the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda is causing families to withdraw toddlers from care, children to experience heightened anxiety, and providers to fear for their own safety while trying to support immigrant families.
Anti-Child and Anti-Family: How the Trump Administration is Targeting the Most Vulnerable Among Us.
Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights (June 3, 2025)
This explainer details how the Trump administration’s policies prioritizing enforcement and family separation are harming children, particularly immigrant children, while governments are also reducing childhood protections and subjecting teens to adult consequences for political purposes.
The 2025 ICE Detained Parents Directive Vs. the 2022 ICE Parental Interests Directive
Women’s Refugee Commission (July 2025)
This brief provides a side-by-side comparison of the key differences between the 2022 and 2025 versions of the Detained Parents/Parental Interests Directive.
New Policy Bars Many Lawfully Present and Undocumented Immigrants from a Broad Range of Federal Health and Social Supports
Drishti Pillai and Samantha Artiga, Kaiser Family Foundation (July 21, 2025)
This resource reviews the new HSS rule, which expands the definition of “federal public benefits” to include 13 additional programs that are now restricted to immigrants with “qualified” status, immediately barring many lawfully present and undocumented immigrants from accessing various health care, educational, and social services.
