Amid increased fear of the Trump administration’s promised mass deportations, CICW Director, Kristina Lovato, shares recommendations around family preparedness planning, and how families can talk to and prepare their children for interactions with immigration enforcement.
Increasingly punitive immigration policies, including the revocation of the protected areas memo and new state level attempts to require citizenship information for school enrollment, threaten education access for children in immigrant families. The CICW Director speaks to the importance of education as a tool for children to lead productive lives and contribute to society – a tool that every child should have at their disposal.
The governor of Washington has ordered the creation of a rapid response team in the state’s Department of Children, Youth and Families to help migrant families who may be separated during deportation operations promised by the Trump administration.
A judge has extended rules requiring safe and clean conditions for migrant children in federal custody, a day after Border Patrol was set to go back to self-monitoring these conditions.
Mellissa Harper, an immigration enforcement veteran, has been chosen to lead ORR, raising concerns that children’s and families’ information could be used to target immigrants for deportation.
The Department of Children and Family Services in Illinois is preparing to support the children of families impacted by deportation and broaden services to immigrant families.
The Trump administration plans to resume detaining migrant families and is seeking private prison contracts to operate family detention facilities.
Immigrant parents of young children have started pulling their children from childcare while childcare providers also fear coming to work amid fear of increased immigrant enforcement.
Immigrant advocates are monitoring for violations of the 2023 agreement that bans most family separations for 8 years and protects migrant families previously separated during Trump’s first term.
A Florida activist is helping immigrant parents to prepare their families for the worst case scenario of parental deportation in the wake of President Trump’s inauguration.
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