The Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration across the southern U.S. border may drive a new wave of Central American youth to attempt the dangerous journey through Mexico to escape rampant gang violence in their home countries.
Read the ArticleLouisiana sheriffs have not signed onto the 287 (g) agreement, which authorizes specially-trained local law enforcement to identify undocumented immigrants and alert ICE, after booking them into a parish jail.
Read the ArticleA letter to the editor highlighting the impact of immigration enforcement on family separation and the need for discretion when children are involved.
Read the LetterA pediatrician describes his experience of interacting with children in immigration proceedings.
Read the StoryA Touro College Graduate School of Social Work symposium discusses the daily struggles and long-term challenges that undocumented immigrants and their U.S.-born children endure when faced with parental deportation.
Read the ArticleAn educator and Peruvian immigrant shares about her experience as a new child in a new school in a new country and about what immigrant children face today.
Read the ArticleFive Central Americans claim the government is keeping them in the dark about their children’s whereabouts and giving them no choice but to plead guilty to reunite their families.
Read the ArticleThe Alliance for Strong Families and Communities, a national organization that represents hundreds of child welfare and juvenile justice service providers, is concerned that the tax reform plan moving through both chambers of Congress is setting up a perfect storm of funding troubles for nonprofits in the sector.
Read the ArticleLawmakers headed into the long Thanksgiving recess are in stark disagreement over how, and when, to provide legal cover for undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children — legislation both parties say they want after President Trump rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in September.
Read the ArticleRepresentative Kevin Yoder is sponsoring H.R. 392, which addresses the conflict between American competitiveness and the hundreds of thousands of individuals stuck for years in employment-based immigration backlogs due to the per-country limit.
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