This policy brief documents how the Trump administration’s immigration policies are separating families and undermining children’s rights and safety, and calls for an urgent recommitment to protections that prioritize family unity and children’s well-being.
This spotlight documents how escalating ICE and CBP enforcement is deterring unaccompanied children from accessing public education amid emerging threats to the Plyler v. Doe ruling that guarantees all children the right to attend school regardless of immigration status.
This website, which is continually updated, includes a complete compilation of Trump 1.0 and 2.0 immigration policies, in an indexed, summarized, and searchable format with key source documents.
This toolkit offers research-backed, trauma-informed strategies and practical guidance to help clinical and non-clinical service providers support the well-being, resilience, and dignity of unaccompanied and separated children across a range of settings.
This practice alert breaks down USCIS’s April 2026 memo terminating automatic deferred action consideration for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) petitioners, with guidance on how the change affects petitions filed before and after the May 10 effective date.
This practice guide equips service providers with trauma-informed, child-centered strategies — grounded in the CARE framework — to support children and youth experiencing prolonged detention in ORR custody and beyond.
This article explores childhood exposure to intimate partner violence (CEIPV) and intergenerational CEIPV (I-CEIPV) among young Central American immigrant mothers who were formerly unaccompanied refugee minors (URM) and offers implications for programs, policies, and research.
This report finds ICE routinely violated its own family unity and medical care policies, deporting parents without allowing them to make arrangements for their children and failing to provide adequate care for pregnant and postpartum women.
This amicus brief outlines the immediate and long-term harms to babies and children if birthright citizenship is eliminated.
This issue brief outlines concrete steps state and local governments can take to protect immigrant communities from financial exploitation and consumer abuse across areas like housing, fraud, privacy, and language access.
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