An administrator of Florida’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) reported an immigrant minor to ICE, violating longstanding state policy that prohibits workers from acting on a child’s immigration status.
Washington’s Family Separation Rapid Response Team has issued its first report since its inception, highlighting multiple gaps in supports for separated immigrant families.
Two Honduran women, deported with their US citizen children, were denied the chance to coordinate the care and custody of their children prior to removal.
A two-year-old child was forcibly separated from her parents by the Trump administration, with her mother deported to Venezuela and her father imprisoned in El Salvador.
Advocates raise concerns about conditions for children in federal government custody and the resulting long-lasting trauma family detention causes.
Fear of child separation policies and concerns of children’s right violations are growing in the wake of recent deportations of US-citizen children.
The Trump administration is conducting a nationwide review of 450,000 unaccompanied migrant children, under the guise of ensuring their safety, raising concerns among advocates that the review may be used to deport sponsors or children without documentation.
Advocacy groups are suing the Trump Administration to challenge new procedures that have tripled the time migrant children spend in government custody before reunification with sponsors.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement’s mission appears to be changing under the Trump administration toward assisting with immigration enforcement efforts.
US citizen children deported with their undocumented parent stand to face many challenges if they wish to return to the U.S.
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