Many of the immigration initiatives launched by the Trump administration in recent weeks target one kind of migrant: children. The measures are aimed at expelling young people already in the United States illegally and preventing new ones from crossing into the country.
Read the ArticleThe Justice Department is enacting several reforms in order to address a backlog of several hundred thousand immigration cases, according to DOJ documents and officials.
Read the StoryThe Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit that researches and advocates changes in the criminal justice system, launched the Safety and Fairness for Everyone (SAFE) Cities Network this past week. The cities and counties making up the network will be providing legal counsel for immigrants facing deportation proceedings.
Read the StoryThe Rational Middle and the Center for Houston’s Future have teamed up to tackle the contentious issue of immigration and to help catalyze a discussion about sensible immigration reform by releasing a web series. The first two episodes of “Rational Middle: Immigration” discuss the challenges and opportunities of fixing the broken immigration system. These episodes are now streaming.
View the EpisodesThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that it will be terminating protections for 2,500 Nicaraguans as of January 2019. The DHS has yet to come to a decision about whether or not they will extend the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for 57,000 Hondurans, as well as thousands of immigrants from El Salvador and Haiti.
Read the StoryJerry Milner, the Acting Commissioner of the Administration for Children, Youth and Families, answers questions regarding a range of issues including maltreatment prevention, federal finance reform and the future of the Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) process, as follow up to an interview that took place earlier this fall.
Read the StoryMonths after Chicago officials established up a $1.3 million fund to boost legal services for immigrants facing deportation, there’s been a big spike in immigrants with legal representation, a study has found.
Read the StoryAP Friends of Children Fund grants seek to facilitate community- and state-level partnerships to address pediatric public health issues, including those that effect immigrant children.
Read the StoryRosa Maria Hernandez, an immigrant child with cerebral palsy, has been released from a federally funded shelter in San Antonio, where she had been held for 10 days after undergoing surgery. She was detained due to the fact that she was an undocumented immigrant traveling without her parents.
Read the StoryAs Trump moves to sanction countries that don’t accept deportees, analysts warn that U.S. residents of Vietnamese origin no longer have the same protections.
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