In this podcast, Elaine Weisman of the ISS-USA discusses topics relating to cross-border cases, including resources for caseworkers seeking to reunify families separated at the border and how current laws and policies can impact agencies working across borders.
This two-part briefing describes how federal policy during the last year of the Trump administration has impacted immigrant children and how Congress can legislate comprehensive federal policy for children in federal immigration custody. Specific recommendations describe how the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Homeland Security could address children’s needs while in custody to ensure their rights are protected.
Encouraging practitioners to operate from a trauma-informed lens when working with unaccompanied and separated immigrant children, this practice guide illustrates critical steps towards ensuring safe repatriation. The guide offers essential tips when working directly with clients and information regarding advocacy work with the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), consulates, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
This updated and convenient guide contains more than 250 migration data resources from the United States and internationally from reliable governmental and non-governmental sources organized by topics ranging from labor migration to immigration enforcement.
Developed by a coalition of organizations dedicated to the rights, health, and safety of immigrant children, this resource provides a list of 10 legislative priorities for the incoming Biden administration.
The Women’s Refugee Commission, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), Justice in Motion, and the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP formed a court-appointed Steering Committee as a result of the Ms. L v. ICE class action lawsuit. This lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 2018 to try and halt the separation of parents and children as they arrived in the United States. The Steering Committee is still attempting to locate parents that were separated from their children. This flyer provides a toll-free number for parents to call in an attempt to reunite families.
This report, developed by experts in various fields, details a new framework for the federal government to use for providing aid to separated or unaccompanied minors that request to reside permanently in 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.
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 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.
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