Current U.S. immigration policies are using children as enforcement tool by accessing shelter data to target sponsors for detention and deportation, causing families to withdraw from sponsoring children, leaving kids stranded in shelters longer, and creating vulnerabilities to trafficking.
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children, giving lawyers 14 more days to work the case and preventing any children from being removed during the next two weeks.
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.
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