The Budget Reconciliation Law will harm unaccompanied children and families
Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights (August 14, 2025)
This resources describes the impacts of the budget reconciliation law on immigrant child and families.
Trump Administration 2.0 Immigration Updates
ABA Children’s Immigration Law Academy (July 29, 2025)
This resource provides a summary of the executive orders and other policies impacting unaccompanied children in the first six months of the Trump administration.
The Trump Administration’s First 100 Days of Immigration Policy: Impacts to Immigrant Children and Families
CICW Research Workgroup, Center on Immigration and Child Welfare Initiative (August 2025)
This policy brief examines the impacts on immigrant children and families of the Trump administration’s immigration-related actions during his first 100 days in office, and proposes solutions to protect their health and wellbeing.
Anti-Child and Anti-Family: How the Trump Administration is Targeting the Most Vulnerable Among Us.
Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights (June 3, 2025)
This explainer details how the Trump administration’s policies prioritizing enforcement and family separation are harming children, particularly immigrant children, while governments are also reducing childhood protections and subjecting teens to adult consequences for political purposes.
The 2025 ICE Detained Parents Directive Vs. the 2022 ICE Parental Interests Directive
Women’s Refugee Commission (July 2025)
This brief provides a side-by-side comparison of the key differences between the 2022 and 2025 versions of the Detained Parents/Parental Interests Directive.
New Policy Bars Many Lawfully Present and Undocumented Immigrants from a Broad Range of Federal Health and Social Supports
Drishti Pillai and Samantha Artiga, Kaiser Family Foundation (July 21, 2025)
This resource reviews the new HSS rule, which expands the definition of “federal public benefits” to include 13 additional programs that are now restricted to immigrants with “qualified” status, immediately barring many lawfully present and undocumented immigrants from accessing various health care, educational, and social services.
2025 ICE Detained Parents Directive
U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (July 2, 2025)
ICE released a revised Detained Parents Directive that provides guidelines for ensuring detained or deported immigrant parents can make decisions about their minor children’s care and participate in child welfare and family court proceedings.
An Examination of Immigration Status and Its Implications for Transition-Age Youth in the Child Welfare System
Anthony Gómez, Kristina K. Lovato, Andrea Lane Eastman, and Mark E. Courtney; Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services (June 28, 2025)
This policy brief analyzes administrative California child welfare data of undocumented immigrant youth in foster care, finding that immigration status data is often missing and that both U.S. citizens and undocumented youth were more likely to have transition plans than legal residents, highlighting needs for better services and data collection.
Five Ways the House Reconciliation Bill Will Be Catastrophic for Immigrant Women and Families
Women’s Refugee Commission (May 19, 2025)
This issue brief explains the harmful impacts of the House Reconciliation bill for immigrant women, children, and families, including stripping healthcare coverage for immigrant survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking, decimating legal protections for Unaccompanied Children, and expanding ICE’s detention capacity.
Immigration Enforcement at All Costs: How the Trump Administration is Endangering Unaccompanied Immigrant Children
The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights and National Immigrant Justice Center (May 25, 2025)
This explainer discusses how Congress and the administration have been undermining ORR’s ability to focus on child welfare, family reunification, and safety by tying ORR operations to immigration enforcement actions and provides recommendations on what can be done to support unaccompanied children.
