Pediatricians from the American Academy of Pediatrics share an urgent call opposing the current administration’s immigration policies, which are causing harmful family separations and detaining children in conditions that lead to severe psychological trauma, developmental regression, and inadequate healthcare.
A new HHS rule will restrict immigrant access to Head Start and other federal public benefits.
Advocates are concerned that “wellness checks” being conducted on unaccompanied minors by federal officials may be used to lay the groundwork for future arrests.
The Trump administration is using a systematic approach to curtail protections for undocumented minors.
Immigrant youth and legal service providers filed a class action lawsuit challenging the termination of the deferred action policy that protected immigrant children and youth who fled their home countries due to parental neglect, abuse, and other mistreatment.
When an immigrant mother’s brief jail sentence turned into over four months in immigration detention, her son ended up in foster care for an extended period.
The Trump administration is having federal agents ask unaccompanied migrant teens if they want to voluntarily leave the country as a way to speed up deportations, according to government officials.
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending birthright citizenship for children of undocumented parents in the third nationwide court ruling against the order since a June Supreme Court decision.
Several students who were enrolled in U.S. K-12 schools last year will not be returning this fall because ICE has deported them to other countries.
Immigrant children are being held in “unsafe and unsanitary” detention facilities with inadequate medical care while the Trump administration seeks to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement that has mandated basic protections and oversight for detained immigrant children since 1997.
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