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Deportation

Familias Inmigrantes Separadas por El Gobierno Estadounidense Facebook Group

By | Child Well-Being, Deportation, Detention, Family Separation, ICE, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Parenting, Practice Highlight, Social Work, Social Workers, Spanish Resources, Youth & Families

Familias Inmigrantes Separadas por El Gobierno Estadounidense Facebook Group

CLINIC and Al Otro Lado (July 2018)

CLINIC and Al Otro Lado Facebook Group for Separated Families: For those working directly with separated families, CLINIC and Al Otro Lado created a closed Facebook group called Familias Inmigrantes Separadas por El Gobierno Estadounidense to provide separated parents with easy-to-access legal orientation in Spanish and an informal support group. CLINIC and Al Otro Lado also hope to use this Facebook group to find and connect deported parents. If you or your organization are welcoming and screening families, please share the flyer below with the families. Please note this group is exclusively for parents.

Trump’s Family Incarceration Policy Threatens Healthy Child Development

By | Child Well-Being, Deportation, Detention, Family Separation, Immigrant Families Research, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Legal/Law, Parenting, Research Highlight, Social Work, Trauma

Trump’s Family Incarceration Policy Threatens Healthy Child Development

Leila Schochet, Center for American Progress (July 12, 2018)

This issue brief outlines how the Trump administration is attempting to roll back important legal protections for children in detention and details how President Trump’s latest policy of detaining families will have negative effects on the health and well-being of immigrant children and their parents.

 

A Summary of ICE’s Directive on Detention and Removal of Parents or Guardians

By | Deportation, Detention, Federal Policy, ICE, Immigration Enforcement, Law & Policy, Law/Policy Highlight, Legal/Law

A Summary of ICE’s Directive on Detention and Removal of Parents or Guardians

Migration Policy Institute (May 2018)

This publication provides a summary of ICE’s new directive on the detention and removal of parents/guardians  its requirements, and its differences from the 2013 Directive.

Letters to Providers Reuniting Families

By | Child Well-Being, Culture: Issues & Competencies, Deportation, Detention, Early Childhood, Family Separation, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Legal Professionals, Parenting, Practice Highlight, Social Work, Social Workers, Trauma, Youth & Families

Letters to Providers Reuniting Families

University of Michigan and the Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health (July 2018)

These letters to providers (for case managers, etc) in English and in Spanish describe how children might express their grief and fear and provide suggestions about how to help parents help children in the context of family separation and reunification.

Spanish Version

Cecilia and the Long Walk (Audio Recordings)

By | Child Well-Being, Culture: Issues & Competencies, Deportation, Detention, Early Childhood, Family Separation, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Parenting, Social Work, Social Workers, Spanish Resources, Trauma, Youth & Families

Cecilia and the Long Walk (Audio Recordings)

Julie Ribaudo, Sara Stein and Paige Safyer, University of Michigan (July 2018)

New English and Spanish resources for use with reunified children and parents, developed by experts in infant mental health and child development at the University of Michigan. These audio books may help parents help their children through the transition and reunification and process the traumatic experience of separation, and may be especially helpful for those agencies that are on the front lines helping to reunify children and parents. There are also accompanying books (English and Spanish) and coloring books (English and Spanish).

Cecilia and the Long Walk (Coloring Books)

By | Child Well-Being, Culture: Issues & Competencies, Deportation, Detention, Early Childhood, Family Separation, Immigration Enforcement, Parenting, Practice, Social Work, Social Workers, Spanish Resources, Trauma, Youth & Families

Cecilia and the Long Walk (Coloring Books)

Julie Ribaudo, Sara Stein and Paige Safyer, University of Michigan (July 2018)

New English and Spanish resources for use with reunified children and parents, developed by experts in infant mental health and child development at the University of Michigan. These coloring books may help parents help their children through the transition and reunification and process the traumatic experience of separation, and may be especially helpful for those agencies that are on the front lines helping to reunify children and parents. There are also accompanying books (English and Spanish) and audio recordings (English, Spanish, and Combo).

Cecilia and the Long Walk

By | Child Well-Being, Culture: Issues & Competencies, Deportation, Detention, Early Childhood, Family Separation, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Parenting, Practice, Practice Highlight, Social Work, Social Workers, Spanish Resources, Trauma, Youth & Families

Cecilia and the Long Walk

Julie Ribaudo, Sara Stein and Paige Safyer, University of Michigan (July 2018)

New English and Spanish resources for use with reunified children and parents, developed by experts in infant mental health and child development at the University of Michigan. This book may help parents help their children through the transition and reunification and process the traumatic experience of separation, and may be especially helpful for those agencies that are on the front lines helping to reunify children and parents. There are also accompanying coloring books (English and Spanish) and audio recordings (English, Spanish, and Combo).

Demanding Answers from ICE and CBP Regarding Their Aggressive Immigration Enforcement Tactics

By | Deportation, Detention, Federal Policy, ICE, Immigration Enforcement, Law & Policy, Law/Policy Highlight, Legal/Law

Demanding Answers from ICE and CBP Regarding Their Aggressive Immigration Enforcement Tactics

American Immigration Council (July 9, 2018)

The American Immigration Council filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with ICE and CBP on October 13, 2017, seeking data on enforcement actions and outcomes since January 2016. With this data, the Council will be able to assess who is being targeted for removal and what the consequences are of the current enforcement framework.

Case Update: The Domestic Violence Deportation Ground

By | Deportation, Federal Policy, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Relief, Law & Policy, Legal/Law

Case Update: The Domestic Violence Deportation Ground

Kathy Brady, ILRC (June 2018)

The domestic violence deportation ground at INA § 237(a)(2)(E) sets out four bases for deportability. This advisory will provide a brief overview of the deportation ground, and outline recent decisions and how they may affect representation in California and the Ninth Circuit.

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