This report reviews existing literature on immigrant children and families who encounter the child welfare and/or juvenile justice systems to assess the needs, current relevant policies and practices, and existing gaps in research related to this population.
Access Full ReportThis report documents how the current immigration context is affecting our nation’s youngest children, under age eight, based on interviews and focus groups in 2017 with more than 150 early childhood educators and parents in six states—California, Georgia, Illinois, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
Read ReportThis advisory provides an overview of hardship in waivers: when you need to prove hardship, whose hardship counts, and what is hardship.
View ResourceThis fact checking piece by the ABA examines the meaning and origin of the term “chain migration” and how it is being used today to shape the public’s view of immigrant families coming to the U.S.
View ResourceThe Foreign Affairs Manual (FAM) provides instructions that officials in U.S. embassies and consulates abroad use to make decisions about whether to grant non–U.S. citizens permission to enter the U.S. This resource provides information about recent changes to the FAM.
View ResourceA fact sheet addressing anticipated regulations forcing millions of families to choose between the denial of status (or even deportation) and public benefits.
Get the Fact SheetChildren of immigrants are growing up in an environment of aggressive immigration policies and practices. This paper reviews research on the social circumstances affecting this population, the consequences of immigration policies and practices on child well-being, and the impact of parental legal status on child development.
Read the PaperA website that contains resources for legal advocates and people who require help.
Access WebsiteIn light of the recent announcement of an end to many TPS designations, this edition of Policy Beat explores the TPS programs, current countries of designation, and the history of TPS rescissions over the years, as well as the reasons for not extending those designations.
Read the ArticleAuthors explore DREAM Act critics’ stipulation that “chain migration” would occur if DREAMers were legalized as DREAMers could eventually sponsor their family members for green card.
Read the Article
© 2026 CICW.