Webinar: Current Issues Impacting TPS and DED Clients
Catholic Legal Immigration Network (March 22, 2019)
This webinar reviews recent developments that affect TPS and DED clients, including litigation challenges, advocacy efforts, and best practice recommendations.
Dream and Promise Act Provides Needed Solution for Immigrant Families
CLASP (March 12, 2019)
This statement from CLASP addresses the introduction of the Dream and Promise Act of 2019 (H.R. 6) in the House of Representative. This bill would address the crisis faced by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) beneficiaries and immigrants with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) as a result of the Trump Administration’s actions.
Visualizing Trends for Children of Immigrants
Urban Institute (February, 2016)
This recently updated tool presents data and trends over time on children of immigrants and their parents, families, and households for states and the top 100 metropolitan areas. This information is available starting in 2006 and updated as of March 2019.
Immigration Data Matters
Jeanne Batalova, Andriy Shymonyak, and Michelle Mittelstadt, Migration Policy Institute (March 2018)
Webinar: Food Insecurity and Access to Health Care: Critical Issues for the Development of Young Children of Immigrants
Foundation for Child Development (February 2019)
Maintaining Family Values
Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service (March 2019)
This report describes the nationwide comprehensive emergency case-management program that LIRS funded and implemented in summer-fall 2018. The Family Reunification Support Program was designed specifically to support formerly separated families who were released by ICE following their reunification.
Communities in Crisis: Interior Removals and Their Human Consequences
Kino Border Initiative, The Center for Migration Studies of New York, and the Office of Justice and Ecology (November 2018)
Migrant advocacy groups at the Arizona border are seeing more immigrants being deported after spending many years living in the United States and a new survey by several faith-based groups details the hardships separated families face after a relative is deported.
Research Estimating Impact of Proposed Public Charge Rule: What Study to Use?
Protecting Immigrant Families (November 2018)
This document is a running summary of demographic and economic research estimating the impact of the Trump administration’s proposed public charge rule. The document includes information on each research product’s key findings and data sources and suggests best uses for each product while describing the limitations of each research product.
Family-Based Adjustment of Status Options
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (December 2018)
A noncitizen can pursue lawful permanent residence through a family member in two different ways—one, through consular processing at a U.S. consulate abroad,1 or two, through adjustment of status at a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) office or Immigration Court in the United States. This advisory focuses on family-based adjustment of status through INA § 245(a) and INA § 245(i).
