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Expect Illegal Immigration Across the Mexican Border to Double Next Year

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Expect Illegal Immigration Across the Mexican Border to Double Next Year

Steven Kopits, The Hill (Oct 27, 2017)

Dubbed as the “Trump effect”, this opinion piece suggests that illegal immigration across the Mexican border will double in 2018. Data supporting this theory is discussed, in addition to immigration trends from this year and previous years.

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Children are Dying at Alarming Rates in Foster Care, and Nobody is Bothering to Investigate

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Children are Dying at Alarming Rates in Foster Care, and Nobody is Bothering to Investigate

Ryan Grim and Aída Chávez, The Intercept (Oct 18, 2017)

An investigation by the bipartisan Senate Finance Committee indicates that children in the for-profit foster care system are dying at a disturbing rate and without proper investigation.

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New Trump Immigration Efforts Aim to Stop Child Border Crossers

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New Trump Immigration Efforts Aim to Stop Child Border Crossers

Daily Times (Nov 4, 2017)

Many of the immigration initiatives launched by the Trump administration in recent weeks target one kind of migrant: children. The measures are aimed at expelling young people already in the United States illegally and preventing new ones from crossing into the country.

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More Jurisdictions To Provide Legal Defense For Immigrants At Risk Of Deportation

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More Jurisdictions To Provide Legal Defense For Immigrants At Risk Of Deportation

Jose Olivares, NPR (Nov 12, 2017)

The Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit that researches and advocates changes in the criminal justice system, launched the Safety and Fairness for Everyone (SAFE) Cities Network this past week. The cities and counties making up the network will be providing legal counsel for immigrants facing deportation proceedings.

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Rational Middle: What is the Path to Sensible Immigration Reform?

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Rational Middle: What is the Path to Sensible Immigration Reform?

Marek Brothers, Marek (Nov 10, 2017)

The Rational Middle and the Center for Houston’s Future have teamed up to tackle the contentious issue of immigration and to help catalyze a discussion about sensible immigration reform by releasing a web series. The first two episodes of “Rational Middle: Immigration” discuss the challenges and opportunities of fixing the broken immigration system. These episodes are now streaming.

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Trump’s Next Immigration Target: People Living Legally in US After Disaster Struck Their Countries

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Trump’s Next Immigration Target: People Living Legally in US After Disaster Struck Their Countries

Dara Lind and P.R. Lockhart, Vox (Nov 7, 2017)

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that it will be terminating protections for 2,500 Nicaraguans as of January 2019. The DHS has yet to come to a decision about whether or not they will extend the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for 57,000 Hondurans, as well as thousands of immigrants from El Salvador and Haiti.

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Trump’s Top Child Welfare Official Speaks

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Trump’s Top Child Welfare Official Speaks

Daniel Heimpel, The Chronicle of Social Change (Nov 6, 2017)

Jerry Milner, the Acting Commissioner of the Administration for Children, Youth and Families, answers questions regarding a range of issues including maltreatment prevention, federal finance reform and the future of the Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) process, as follow up to an interview that took place earlier this fall.

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