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.
Expedited Removal and Unaccompanied Children: An FAQ
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (November 21, 2025)
This resource addresses concerns about the Trump administration’s January 2025 expansion of expedited removal and provides arguments against applying this deportation process to young people who entered as unaccompanied children or have approved SIJS.
Screening for Immigration Relief: Client Intake Form and Notes
ILRC Attorneys, Immigrant Legal Resource Center (October 2, 2025)
This resource provides a comprehensive client intake form with accompanying guidance notes to help practitioners screen for immigration relief options, identify potential issues, and assess eligibility pathways during the initial assessment stage.
Staying Whole: A Love Letter to Immigrant Parents
Children Thrive Action Network, National Parents Union, and Little Justice Leaders (October 2025)
This resource, available in English and Spanish, provides immigrant parents with mental health support, safety planning guidance, and strategies for talking with their children during immigration enforcement, addressing the emotional toll of federal immigration policies on families and communities.
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.
Making ‘Best interest’ visible: the role of frontline staff in the care of unaccompanied children
Benjamin Roth, John Doering-White, Breanne Grace, Jessica H. Darrow, Aimee Herring, and Stefan Liew; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (August 25, 2025)
This study analyzes how ORR shelter staff interpret and implement “best interest” standards for unaccompanied children, finding that narrow compliance measures may obscure children’s lived experiences and affect their perceived deservingness of legal relief in immigration court.
All in for a Thriving Connecticut: Opportunities to Support Upward Mobility for the State’s Immigrant Families
Margie McHugh, Julia Gelatt, Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh, Katherine Habben, Jacob Hofstetter and Julie Sugarman; Migration Policy Institute (September 2025)
This report examines how Connecticut’s state policies and services can better support immigrant integration and upward mobility, analyzing eight key areas including education, housing, healthcare, and workforce development based on interviews with state and local stakeholders.
Resources to Help Prevent Child Labor Exploitation
Kids in Need of Defense & Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights (2025)
These resources are designed to address/prevent child labor exploitation:
- Connect, Assess, Respond, and Educate (C.A.R.E.): A Toolkit for Professionals Serving Unaccompanied Children Experiencing Labor Exploitation: This resource can help professionals working with unaccompanied minors to identify and address child labor exploitation.
- LEPP Videos: These videos, available in English and Spanish, outline the rights of youth workers, how to spot labor exploitation, and what to do in cases of suspected labor exploitation.
- LEPP Flyer: This flyer, available in 16 languages, mirrors the information in LEPP’s first animated video, titled “Want to work? You have rights!”
- “Where to find help” webpage: Available in English and Spanish, this webpage provides resources on where to find help if a young person suspects they are experiencing labor exploitation, job training resources, hotline information, and other resources.
Brief: 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, Transition-Age Youth Research & Evaluation Hub (May 29, 2025)
This brief summarizes the findings and key recommendations from a study examining immigration status documentation in California’s child welfare records for transition-age youth in foster care.
