This policy analysis reviews the exclusionary policies impacting immigrant youth and their families.
This review examines how the complex U.S. immigration system affects immigrant families’ access to opportunity, health, education, and safety. It urges scholars to study impacts from the migration journey through settlement while centering ethics in research with families made vulnerable by immigration laws.
This resource provides a comprehensive client intake form with accompanying guidance notes to help practitioners screen for immigration relief options, identify potential issues, and assess eligibility pathways during the initial assessment stage.
This resources describes the impacts of the budget reconciliation law on immigrant child and families.
This resource provides a summary of the executive orders and other policies impacting unaccompanied children in the first six months of the Trump administration.
This policy brief examines the impacts on immigrant children and families of the Trump administration’s immigration-related actions during his first 100 days in office, and proposes solutions to protect their health and wellbeing.
This report examines how state and local governments implement language access measures, finding that while there’s no universal approach, governments can learn from existing efforts and adapt strategies to their own contexts and needs.
This explainer details how the Trump administration’s policies prioritizing enforcement and family separation are harming children, particularly immigrant children, while governments are also reducing childhood protections and subjecting teens to adult consequences for political purposes.
This resource reviews the new HSS rule, which expands the definition of “federal public benefits” to include 13 additional programs that are now restricted to immigrants with “qualified” status, immediately barring many lawfully present and undocumented immigrants from accessing various health care, educational, and social services.
This issue brief explains the harmful impacts of the House Reconciliation bill for immigrant women, children, and families, including stripping healthcare coverage for immigrant survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking, decimating legal protections for Unaccompanied Children, and expanding ICE’s detention capacity.
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