This resource covers resources and strategies to best support immigrant families that do not have documented status within the United States.
In 1997, the Flores Settlement Agreement established basic standards governing the custody, detention, and release of children in federal immigration custody. These standards are based on fundamental child welfare principles, namely that detention is harmful and that children should be reunified with their families as quickly as possible. This guide summarizes over two decades of lessons learned since its implementation and synthesizes the research and data that should ground future policy.
This briefing paper looks at how current policies aimed at blocking the entry of children and asylum seekers contribute toward the humanitarian crisis at the border rather than existing laws designed to protect children.
This practice alert highlights the key take-aways from three recently adopted AAO decisions and some of the most important elements of the proposed regulations for advocates to challenge through comments, and contains an Appendix with case summaries of the AAO decisions.
This report summarizes the experiences of DACA beneficiaries who have gone through several renewals but continue to worry about their futures in the United States. It highlights the positive impact of DACA as well as its limitations in a time of uncertainty and heavy immigration enforcement.
A report released by the Office of the Inspector General confirmed that intense trauma was common among children who entered the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) facilities in 2018 including those who were suddenly separated from their parents.
This briefing book contains a white paper that provides background on the situation at the U.S.-Mexico Border and recommendations to improve care for children as well as experts’ biographies and contact information and additional materials.
With half of all children in California coming from an immigrant family, child welfare agencies in California must be equipped to effectively support immigrant children and families on the pathway to permanency. The objective of this toolkit is to provide guidance to child welfare agencies in California working with immigrant children and families.
The below is a collection of Know Your Rights resources to help prepare parents, community members, and attorneys on ICE raids on the sponsors of unaccompanied children and families.
In an attempt to deter unaccompanied children from coming to the U.S., the Trump administration has made efforts to reduce or eliminate protections within the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (“TVPRA”) and to expedite processing for children already in the U.S. This backgrounder explains the danger of these changes, and how they protections for children seeking safety in the US.
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