This amicus brief to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the case regarding the legality of the DACA program highlights the harm of the DACA rescission on the children of DACA recipients.
A new memo from the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) provides improved guidelines for immigration court cases involving children.
This report provides updates and recommendations on efforts on the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s (ORR) efforts to address concerns of child labor exploitation for unaccompanied minors release from ORR custody.
This research explored the chilling effect of former President Trump’s election on health care utilization among children of immigrants.
This fact sheet reviews the issue of labor exploitation of unaccompanied children and how this issue can be addressed.
This report describes DHS’s efforts to review and incorporate feedback from organizations representing the needs of children, and addresses the identification and protection of unaccompanied minors and family detention.
This policy brief reviews recent research on child welfare agency practices serving immigrants during the pandemic and offers four policy recommendations to response to the needs of immigrant families in the child welfare system.
This qualitative study examines children’s experiences of discrimination, parental deportation or threat thereof, and perceived impacts on mental health, and revealed detrimental impacts to their psychological well-being.
This report details the findings and implications from the third phase of the Strengthening Border Families study, which interviewed immigrant caregivers with young children in Doña Ana County about their experiences accessing a broad range of supportive services. Read the report in Spanish here.
This report examines trends in U.S. interior immigration enforcement, outlines the negative effects for children with respect to economic security, food access, housing stability, mental health, and educational outcomes, and provides recommendations for local, state, and federal governments to mitigate these harms.
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