2025 Changes to Eligibility for Key Programs by Immigration Status
Protecting Immigrant Families (February 12, 2026)
This resource summarizes recent changes to healthcare, nutrition, and other public benefit programs by immigration status.
Promoting the rights of immigrant children through state and local action
Children’s Rights (March 4, 2026)
This policy brief summarizes how recent federal immigration policies threaten children’s well-being through family separation and detention, and outlines state and local strategies to protect children’s rights and support immigrant families.
Family Separation as Policy: The Human Cost for Children
Victoria Walker, US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (February 6, 2026)
This policy brief argues that government-enforced family separation is not merely a regulatory decision but a traumatic severing of family bonds that undermines child welfare, destabilizes communities, and violates children’s fundamental right to safety and belonging.
Dismantling Protections: How ORR Policy Changes Trap Children in Extended Detention
Jonathan Beier, Ruben Ortiz, and Kofi Forkuo-Sekyere; Acacia Center for Justice (September 2025)
This report discusses how recent policy changes within ORR that break down pathways to release are keeping children in detention for prolonged periods of time
Policies that harm or help? How anti-immigrant policies threaten and deepen inequalities for immigrant children, youth, and families
Dr. Sophia Rodriguez, The Institute of Human Development and Social Change (2026)
This policy analysis reviews the exclusionary policies impacting immigrant youth and their families.
Child-Family Separation and Immigration Enforcement in the United States
Collaborative on Global Children’s Issues (January 14, 2026)
This webinar addresses the 2025 surge in immigration enforcement that has separated hundreds of thousands of children from detained or deported parents, discussing child and family rights, legislative oversight, and family-centered response strategies.
How the Administration’s Enforcement Policies Are Separating Families and Harming Unaccompanied Children
Kids in Need of Defense (January 13, 2026)
This policy brief documents how the Trump administration is using government agencies to separate families and remove thousands of children from the U.S., disregarding children’s rights and safety while deepening trauma and blocking reunification, and calls for urgent action to restore protections for family unity and children’s well-being.
Bulletin Brief: Immigration Courts Under Attack
Appleseed Network (October 29, 2025)
This bulletin brief explains how the Trump administration is limiting non-citizens’ access to the immigration courts, especially by arresting them outside of courtrooms.
Potential “Chilling Effects” of Public Charge and Other Immigration Policies on Medicaid and CHIP Enrollment
Samantha Artiga, Drishti Pillai, Sammy Cervantes, Akash Pillai, and Matthew Rae; Kaiser Family Foundation (December 2, 2025)
This brief examines how public charge and other immigration policies may discourage immigrants from enrolling in Medicaid and CHIP.
A Timeline: Tracking How the Second Trump Administration Is Rolling Back Protections for Unaccompanied Children
Kids in Need of Defense (October 6, 2025)
This timeline follows the policy changes that have eroded child welfare and anti-trafficking safeguards for children seeking safety in the United States during the 2nd Trump administration.
