The Biden administration recently reopened a housing facility for unaccompanied migrant children that was previously at the center of concerns about poor living conditions.
Tens of thousands of asylum seekers have recently arrived in New York, including 20,000 children, carrying intense experiences of trauma that require comprehensive mental health supports.
New court documents indicate that Border Patrol temporarily separated some migrant families this summer to avoid overcrowding, some with children as young as 8-years-old.
Despite attempts by three presidential administrations to curb migration at the U.S.-Mexico border, migrant families continue to arrive in record numbers.
The Biden administration has extended temporary protected status (TPS) to those Venezuelans who arrived in the U.S. by the end of July.
According to UNICEF, the number of child migrants crossing the Darien Gap, a dangerous expanse of jungle between Colombia and Panama, increased greatly between January and April.
The DACA program was again debated in front of a federal judge, with no decision at this time.
The Judge Department has been defending the Trump administration’s family separation policy in a lawsuit brought on by five mothers who were separated from their children.
A new HSS Dept audit indicates that the Biden administration released 344 unaccompanied minors to live with nonrelative sponsors, raising concerns for implications for child labor exploitation.
HHS has released the results of a new internal audit of the Office of Refugee Resettlement on its process for sponsor vetting and placement of unaccompanied children.
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