This final Unaccompanied Children Program Foundational Rule, effective 60 days from publication, addresses regulations on key aspects of the placement, care, and services provided to unaccompanied children referred to ORR.
This issue brief reviews the importance of infant and early childhood mental health services for immigrant and refugee families, identifies gaps impacting service access and use, and highlights opportunities to improve access to and the relevance of these services for immigrant families.
This document provides a framework for how immigration officials could consider the best interests of unaccompanied children throughout their decision-making continuum from apprehension to placement to release and repatriation.
This briefing explores the erosion of state child welfare licensing procedures for facilities that house unaccompanied minors and offers recommendations to restore important protections.
This briefing reviews the history of state licensed care for children in federal immigration custody, its requirements and recent erosion, and provides recommendations to decrease the government’s reliance on unlicensed placements and restore the protections of state licensing.
This amicus brief to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the case regarding the legality of the DACA program highlights the harm of the DACA rescission on the children of DACA recipients.
This analysis reviews the proposed Senate supplemental funding bill and the implications of the immigration-related provisions for asylum seekers.
A new memo from the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) provides improved guidelines for immigration court cases involving children.
This timeline reviews international and domestic agreements, laws, and policies impacting the U.S. response to children on the move.
This essay reviews the unique position of non-citizen parents involved with the child welfare system and argues that Child Protective Services should take measures to ensure that their immigration status does not negatively impact them in family court.
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