This report documents how the current immigration context is affecting our nation’s youngest children, under age eight, based on interviews and focus groups in 2017 with more than 150 early childhood educators and parents in six states—California, Georgia, Illinois, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
Read ReportThis study investigates the relationship between immigrant parent legal status and academic performance among U.S.-born children, ages 7–10.
Read ArticleThe author explores and explains the short-term and long-term impact of deportation and immigration enforcement on children in Mexican immigrant families.
Read ArticleThis advisory provides an overview of hardship in waivers: when you need to prove hardship, whose hardship counts, and what is hardship.
View ResourceThis guide offers an overall framework for developing, implementing and/or strengthening a family centered practice model, cites specific examples from States and Tribes, and provides additional information to help child welfare agencies and their partners make informed choices in selecting their approaches to this important work.
View GuideThis manual, originally published in 2012, summarizes several potential issues immigrant families may confront in the face of deportation and provides practical considerations for supporting immigrant families who face uncertain immigration enforcement experiences.
English Manual Spanish ManualThis fact checking piece by the ABA examines the meaning and origin of the term “chain migration” and how it is being used today to shape the public’s view of immigrant families coming to the U.S.
View ResourceThis issue brief discusses how Trump’s immigration policies impact young children and details current research on the impacts of breaking families apart, instilling fear in immigrant communities, and preventing families from accessing programs that meet children’s basic needs.
Read Report Spanish VersionThe Foreign Affairs Manual (FAM) provides instructions that officials in U.S. embassies and consulates abroad use to make decisions about whether to grant non–U.S. citizens permission to enter the U.S. This resource provides information about recent changes to the FAM.
View ResourceThis report presents national data about child abuse and neglect known to child protective services agencies in the United States during federal fiscal year 2016.
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