The U.S Dept of Health and Human Services reports that it believes it is prepared to respond to a potential influx of unaccompanied minors in the wake of the anticipated end of Title 42.
An estimated 200,000 immigrants who came to the U.S. legally as children face the potential of losing their legal status at they reach the age of 21 due to decades-long green card backlogs and lack of pathways to green cards for certain temporary visa holders.
Migrant families seeking financial compensation for the trauma inflicted by the Trump administration’s forcible family separation are being met with opposition from the U.S. government.
Lawyers call for reform in government care for unaccompanied immigrant children in response to child testimonies of inhumane conditions at temporary detention facility in Donna, Texas.
In FY 2021, more than 12,000 migrant children reentered the U.S. after being expelled to Mexico, typically with their parents, under the Title 42 policy, demonstrating one of the unintended consequences of the policy as migrant parents decide to “self-separate” from their children so the children can enter the U.S. as unaccompanied minors and avoid Title 42 expulsion.
A federal judge has ruled that the Biden administration cannot end the Title 42 policy, the public health policy that has been used to expel immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
An immigrant family faces potential eviction due to the detention of a family member, illustrating the devastating impacts of the criminalization of the U.S. immigration system.
A 2018 class-action lawsuit, alleging that ORR violated the rights of the children in federal custody, makes headway with a federal judge.
Concerns remain that the Department of Health and Human Services still has not sufficiently addressed the negligent conditions at emergency intake sites for unaccompanied migrant children after several whistleblower disclosures were made last year.
New York’s final state budget set to exclude undocumented children from coverage in its $5 billion child care expansion.
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