Public Charge: What Advocates Need to Know About the November 2025 Proposed Rule
National Immigration Law Center (November 18, 2025)
This resource provides an FAQ for advocates about the new public charge rule proposed in November 2025.
The Unraveling of ORR: A Quick and Calculated Undoing of a System Intended to Protect Children
Neha Desai, Melissa Adamson, & Dr. Ryan Matlow; National Center for Youth Law (September 2025)
This briefing examines recent ORR policy changes, documents the barriers and extended custody times children face, presents expert psychological analysis of the harms caused, and proposes congressional solutions to improve outcomes for unaccompanied children in federal care.
Recent Trump Administration Policies that Impact Health Coverage and Care for Immigrant Families
Drishti Pillai and Samantha Artiga, Kaiser Family Foundation (October 8, 2025)
This issue brief examines Trump administration and Congressional actions that restrict immigrants’ access to health coverage and care, analyzing how these changes will likely increase uninsured rates, reduce healthcare access, and negatively impact long-term health outcomes and economic productivity.
Trump’s Racist Attacks Against TPS Will Rip Apart Families, Harm Local Economies, and Endanger Thousands
Lulit Shewan, CLASP (September 8, 2025)
This brief explores the Trump administration’s efforts to curtail Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and the negative implications for TPS holders and their children and families.
Explainer: Public Charge Memo September 8, 2025
Protecting Immigrant Families (September 8, 2025)
This explainer reviews the current status of the public charge rule, emphasizing that the Biden era policy remains in place.
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.
