The Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review is creating specialized dockets for immigration court cases involving immigrant children, including several child-friendly procedures.
New bipartisan legislation seeks to make the immigration court system more child-friendly for unaccompanied migrant children via training for judges, chlid-only dockets, and connections to legal services.
Over 350 children have been deported to Guatemala in the past two years, and they are often dropped off in cities hours away from their homes with no financial means to get there.
Lack of capacity and new time limits on shelter stays threaten to force migrants in New York City onto the streets.
This opinion piece reviews the situation for unaccompanied children navigating the immigration system in light of the proposed Immigration Court Efficiency and Children’s Court Act.
Shelters in Massachusetts are running out of capacity to house migrants.
A new report finds that language barriers, misinformation and complex eligibility rules prevent immigrant families in North Carolina from enrolling in safety-net programs.
The newly introduced “Protection of Kids in Detention Act” aims to improve transparency, protection, and accountability for all immigrant children in government custody.
Immigrant parents in California report challenges obtaining translations of important special education documents for their children.
The Biden administration plans to send a team of U.S. immigration officials to Panama to assist local authorities in screening and deporting migrants traveling through the country.
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