CLASP conducted a study at three locations where ICE worksite raids were conducted in order to evaluate the impact on immigrant children and families. Findings shows severe adverse affects on the mental health and economic well-being of children, their parents, and their communities.
This resource provides data that was collected from nearly 200 early care and educational professionals who work with children of immigrant parents. Some of the questions they were asked surrounded working with families who have been separated and families access to certain services.
This report found that inconsistencies in record keeping may never give the exact number of children who were separated or who remain separated a result of ‘Zero Tolerance.’ It also includes recommendations to DHS and HHS.
This fact sheet provides a review of the “asylum cooperative agreements” policy that the U.S. signed with El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras which allows the U.S. to send asylum seekers to these countries.
In an interim report issued in April 2019, a bipartisan panel made a set of emergency recommendations in response to the increase of immigrants, especially family units, at the southern border, including changes to asylum processing at the border. In this final report, the panel supplements the recommendations from their April report with additional recommendations related to emergency funding, U.S. government agency coordination, unaccompanied minors, federal investigative efforts, and push factors.
This report highlights the findings from surveys with asylum seekers who were returned to Mexico under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy.
This paper examines the relationship between deportations and crime rates in localities that rolled out Secure Communities at some point since its inception in 2008, finding no evidence that Secure Communities increased polices effectiveness.
This practice resource provides ideas for how childcare providers can support immigrant families with respect to 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.
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