What Can Play Therapy Offer Immigrant Children?
Lyrica Fils-Aimé, Psychology Today (September 13, 2024)
Play therapy can offer many benefits to immigrant and first generation children who experience various immigration-related stressors.
One Unaccompanied Minor’s Journey to the US Sparks Hope in California’s Pilot Program
Lauren DeLaunay Miller, KQED (September 13, 2024)
A new model program in CA called the Children’s Holistic Immigration Representation Project provides wraparound services to immigrant youth, integrating both social services and legal aid.
Kids who migration left behind: The challenging rescue of children who have been victims of violence in Mexico
Carla Gloria Colome, El País (September 15, 2024)
An advocate helps reunite children who have been separated from their parents and left in vulnerable situations in their homelands.
Report reveals ‘systemic child abuse’ of unaccompanied immigrant children by CBP
Carola Guerrero De León, The Latin Times (September 16, 2024)
A new report details hundreds of reports of abuse of unaccompanied immigrant children by Border Patrol in AZ and CA.
Young girl reunites with family in Waukegan after crossing into country from southern border
Vi Nguyen, NBC Chicago (September 19, 2024)
A 12-year-old unaccompanied minor is finally reunited with her family in the Chicago area after challenges navigating the ORR system.
Immigrant families reunited after decades apart through international nonprofit
Crystal Bailey, KTVU Fox 2 (September 20, 2024)
A non-profit organization, International Convention on Human Rights and Migration, works with government officials to reunite immigrant families through a program called Palomas Mensajeras.
U.S. pauses migrant sponsorship program due to fraud concerns
Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News (August 2, 2024)
The Biden administration has paused a migrant sponsorship policy that allows up to 30,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to fly to the U.S. each month if they have U.S. sponsors.
Undocumented kids have a right to attend public schools. This coalition wants to keep it that way.
Kalyn Belsha, Youth Today (August 5, 2024)
A campaign called Known as Education for All is working to counteract proposals to limit the educational rights of undocumented children, which are protected under the 1982 Supreme Court decision Plyler v. Doe.
Texas Gov. Abbott instructs hospitals to collect data on patients’ immigration status
Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News (August 8, 2024)
Texas Governor Abbott signed an executive order requiring hospitals to ask patients about their immigration status in order to determine the costs of providing medical care to undocumented immigrants.
US states sue over Biden rule extending health insurance to DACA immigrants
Daniel Wiessner, Reuters (August 8, 2024)
A group of Republican-led states have sued to block the Biden administration from allowing up to 200,000 DACA recipients to access federally-run health insurance.
