Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System
Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation (formerly the Applied Research Center) (November 2011)
This extensive report is the first national investigation on threats to families when immigration enforcement and the child welfare system intersect. It explores the extent to which children in foster care are prevented from uniting with their detained or deported parents and the failures of the child welfare system to adequately work to reunify these families.
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