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Jul 05
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The Harm of Family Detention

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

The Harm of Family Detention: Why Modifying Flores and Detaining Families Together Cannot Be the Answer to Family Separation

Women’s Refugee Commission (June 2018)

As Congress weighs bills and the Administration considers policies that would result in the long-term detention of families, this backgrounder explains why modifying the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement – which sets national standards regarding the detention, release, and treatment of all children in immigration detention – and expanding family detention cannot be the answer to the Trump administration’s self-created family separation policies.

Jul 05
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Immigrant Connection Project (ICON)

By | Family Separation, Immigration Enforcement, Legal Professionals, Practice, Social Work, Social Workers

Immigrant Connection Project (ICON)

Vera Institute of Justice (June 29, 2018)

The Vera Institute is one of several organizations that has a family reunification tool. On June 29th, it launched the Immigrant Connection Project (ICON), a tool for parents who have been separated from their children as a result of the administration’s zero tolerance policy. They are unable to share any data from their database, but if they find a connection, they can connect a parent or their representative to an agency that has had contact with the child.

Jul 04
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Trump’s Policy of Separating Families at the Border: U.S. Law, Court Rulings and Administration Policy

By | Deportation, Detention, Family Separation, ICE, Immigration Enforcement, Legal Professionals, Legal/Law, Practice, Practice Highlight, Social Workers

Trump’s Policy of Separating Families at the Border: U.S. Law, Court Rulings and Administration Policy

American Bar Association, Civil Rights and Social Justice (July 2018)

A free webinar from the Rapid Response program of the ABA Group: Civil Rights and Social Justice.

Jul 03
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Fact Sheet: Top 10 Reasons Family Incarceration is Not a Solution

By | Child Well-Being, Detention, Family Separation, Immigrant Families Research, Immigration Enforcement, Research, Research Highlight, Social Work

Fact Sheet: Top 10 Reasons Family Incarceration is Not a Solution

Human Rights First (June 2018)

The Trump Administration is attempting to replace its failed policy of family separation with the failed policy of family incarceration. ICE already detains families at three facilities in Dilley and Karnes, Texas and Reading, Pennsylvania, but the Trump Administration wants to lock up families even longer and overturn legal rules that protect children from lengthy detention.

Jul 02
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Fact Sheet: The Trauma of Childhood Separation

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

Fact Sheet: The Trauma of Childhood Separation

Megan J. Wolff, PhD, MPH; Weill Cornell (July 2, 2018)

The Institute for the History of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell created this tool for those working on behalf of separated families or incarcerated parents. This well-sourced fact sheet details the medical aspects of the trauma of child separation. It’s intended to be of use for journalists, policymakers, lawyers, and anyone else interested or involved in the issue.

Jun 26
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Supporting Children and Parents Affected by the Trauma of Separation

By | Child Well-Being, Deportation, Detention, Family Separation, Immigration Enforcement, Legal Professionals, Practice Highlight, Social Work, Social Workers, Trauma, Youth & Families

Supporting Children and Parents Affected by the Trauma of Separation

 Child Trends and the National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families, (June 2018)

As public officials and communities turn to the task of reuniting and supporting immigrant children and parents separated at the border, they face the difficult but critical work of helping these families heal after the trauma they have endured.In this brief, Maria A. Ramos-Olazagasti, a Center investigator, teams up with Jessica Dym Bartlett, a Child Trends expert on early child trauma, to offer research-based guidance for parents, communities, states, and the federal government.

Jun 18
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Leahy Leads Judiciary Democrats In Letter To Grassley Calling For Hearing On President Trump’s Family Separation Policy

By | Family Separation, Federal Policy, ICE, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Law/Policy Highlight, Legal/Law

Leahy Leads Judiciary Democrats In Letter To Grassley Calling For Hearing On President Trump’s Family Separation Policy

U.S. Senate (June 18, 2018)

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led all Judiciary Committee Democrats sent a letter to Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), calling on him to promptly hold a hearing on the Trump administration’s inhumane family separation policy. Since President Trump announced his “zero-tolerance” policy, nearly 2,500 children – some of them just infants – have been torn away from their families at the border.

Jun 18
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Keep Families Together Act

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

Keep Families Together Act

U.S. House of Representatives (June, 18 2018)

The Keep Families Together Act is recently proposed legislation to end the Trump Administration’s policy of separating families at the border.  The bill promotes family unity by prohibiting DHS officials from separating children from their parents, except in extraordinary circumstances.

Jun 18
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Family Separation at the Border — The Administration’s “Zero Tolerance” Policy: De Facto Family Separation

By | Child Well-Being, Family Separation, Federal Policy, Immigration Enforcement, Law & Policy, Legal/Law, Resources

Family Separation at the Border — The Administration’s “Zero Tolerance” Policy: De Facto Family Separation

Women’s Refugee Commission (May 29, 2018)

This resources explains the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy and provides information about the ramifications for family separation as well as policy recommendations.

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