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Jun 15
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California’s Due Process Crisis: Access to Legal Counsel for Detained Immigrants

By | Deportation, Detention, Immigrant Families Research, Immigration Enforcement, Legal/Law, Research Highlight

California’s Due Process Crisis: Access to Legal Counsel for Detained Immigrants

California Coalition for Universal Representation (June 2017)

This report shows that 68% of detained immigrants in CA are unrepresented. Legal representation can be a major determining factor in the outcome of immigration cases, as those with counsel succeed more than five times as often their unrepresented counterparts. As such, it is both fiscally responsible and morally necessary for CA to defend its residents facing detention and deportation.

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Apr 01
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Five Reasons Trump’s Immigration Policy Enforcement Orders Harm Children

By | Child Well-Being, Deportation, Detention, Family Separation, Federal Policy, ICE, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Law & Policy, Law/Policy Highlight

Five Reasons Trump’s Immigration Policy Enforcement Orders Harm Children

Wendy Cervantes and Christina Walker, CLASP (April 2017)

Child well-being and long-term development are impacted by policies’ potential harm to parent-child relationships, education, mental health, and economic security.

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Apr 01
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Betraying Family Values: How Immigration Policy at the United States Border is Separating Families

By | Child Well-Being, Deportation, Detention, Family Separation, Federal Policy, ICE, Immigration Enforcement, Law & Policy, Law/Policy Highlight, Legal/Law, Trauma

Betraying Family Values: How Immigration Policy at the United States Border is Separating Families

Jessica Jones, Katharina Obser, and Jennifer Podkul; KIND, WRC, and LIRS (April 2017)

This report provides details about intentional and unintentional family separation, absence of humanitarian considerations, and effects of these experiences on immigrant families.

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Mar 24
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Unaccompanied Children from Central America – Caught in the Crosshairs of President Trump’s Executive Orders

By | Deportation, Detention, Family Separation, Federal Policy, ICE, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Law & Policy, Law/Policy Highlight, Legal/Law, Unaccompanied Minors

Unaccompanied Children from Central America – Caught in the Crosshairs of President Trump’s Executive Orders

KIND (March 24, 2017)

Recent Executive Orders are evaluated for how they continue to affect unaccompanied children and their parents or guardians.

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Mar 01
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The Effect of Hostile Immigration Policies on Children’s Mental Health

By | Child Well-Being, Deportation, Detention, Family Separation, Federal Policy, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Law & Policy, Law/Policy Highlight, Legal/Law

The Effect of Hostile Immigration Policies on Children’s Mental Health

The Children’s Partnership (March 2017)

Psychological harm and behavioral consequences from fear and stress can occur in children of immigrant families even if parents are not deported or detained.

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Jun 09
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Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff

By | Deportation, Detention, ICE, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Practice Highlight, Safety, Social Work, Social Workers, Spanish Resources, Unaccompanied Minors

Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff

United We Dream’s Dream Educational Empowerment Program, National Immigration Law Center, First Focus, American Federation of Teachers (2016)

This guide gives practical advice to educators and school support staff that can inform their actions and be shared with immigrant families.

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Sep 01
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Implications of Immigration Enforcement Activities for the Well Being of Children in Immigrant Families: A Review of the Literature

By | Child Well-Being, Deportation, Detention, Family Separation, Foster Care, ICE, Immigrant Families Research, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Research Highlight

Implications of Immigration Enforcement Activities for the Well Being of Children in Immigrant Families: A Review of the Literature

Randy Capps, Heather Koball, Andrea Campetella, Krista Perreira, Sarah Hooker and Juan Manuel Pedroza, Urban Institute and Migration Policy Institute (Sept 2015)

This report explores the impacts of parental deportation on children, the health and social service gaps of children with detained parents, and the changes caused by US immigration enforcement in the composition of undocumented populations.

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Jun 28
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A Guide to Children Arriving at the Border: Laws, Policies, and Responses

By | Deportation, Detention, Federal Policy, ICE, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Relief, Law & Policy, Legal Professionals, Legal/Law, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), Unaccompanied Minors

A Guide to Children Arriving at the Border: Laws, Policies, and Responses

American Immigration Council (June 2015)

This guide provides information about the tens of thousands of children who have fled their homes in Central America and arrived at our southern border. It seeks to explain the basics about who these children are, what happens to them when they arrive in the U.S., laws in place to help them, and proposed legislation to help these children.

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Jun 04
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Parenting in the Context of Deportation Risk

By | Child Well-Being, Culture: Issues & Competencies, Deportation, Family Separation, ICE, Immigrant Families Research, Immigration Enforcement, Language Issues, Parenting, Research, Resources, Safety, State Policies, Trauma

Parenting in the Context of Deportation Risk

Jodi Berger Cardoso, University of Houston; Monica Faulkner & Jennifer Scott, University of Texas at Austin (June 2015)

This brief highlights the findings from a collaboration between the University of Houston and the University of Texas at Austin that examined the experiences of 40 undocumented Latino parents to better understand their experiences of living “without papers” in Texas.

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Oct 01
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The ABCs of Representing Unaccompanied Children in Removal Proceedings

By | Deportation, Family Separation, Federal Policy, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Relief, Law & Policy, Legal Professionals, Legal/Law, Practice, Resources, Social Work, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), Unaccompanied Minors

The ABCs of Representing Unaccompanied Children in Removal Proceedings

American Bar Association Commission on Immigration (October 2014)

These materials, from an October 2014 training, cover information on a range of topics related to representing unaccompanied immigrant children, including best practices for working with unaccompanied children, information on immigration law and removal proceedings, ethical considerations in representing unaccompanied minors, Special Immigration Juvenile Status, U and T Visas, and asylum law and initial jurisdiction issues.

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