Inside Trump’s New Tactic to Separate Immigrant Families
Hamed Aleaziz, The New York Times (August 5, 2025)
ICE officials are using family separation as a pressure tactic to force families to leave the United States voluntarily.
Exclusive: Federal law enforcement to begin interviewing unaccompanied migrant children in government custody
Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (August 8, 2025)
Federal law enforcement agents will begin conducting in-person interviews of unaccompanied minors in ORR custody, raising concerns among advocates.
ICE’s family separations are forcing children to parent themselves
Diana Fishbein, The Hill (August 8, 2025)
The current Trump administration’s immigration policy is heightening interior enforcement efforts, leaving children in the lurch when their parents are deported.
Hundreds of groups push back on Trump denying lawful immigrants access to Head Start, other programs
Hundreds of groups push back on Trump denying lawful immigrants access to Head Start, other programs
Suzanna Gamboa, NBC News (August 13, 2025)
Over 300 organizations have come together in opposition of the administration’s decision to prevent legally present immigrants from accessing more federally funded health and human service programs, like Head Start.
ICE sent 3 U.S. citizen children, including boy with cancer, to Honduras with their deported moms
Daniella Silva, NBC News (August 13, 2025)
A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of 3 U.S.-citizen children, including one with cancer, who were deported to Honduras with their mothers.
Judge denies Trump administration request to end a policy protecting immigrant children in custody
Valerie Gonzalez, AP News (August 15, 2025)
A federal judge has denied the Trump administration’s request to end the Flores Settlement Agreement, which provides protections to immigrant children in federal custody.
Building Bridges, Not Walls: Resisting Anti-Immigrant Policy
Laurie Cook Heffron & Esmeralda Rubalcava Hernandez, University at Buffalo, School of Social Work (August 19, 2025)
In this podcast episode, social work scholars examine immigration policy in Texas and provide practical strategies for social workers to resist and respond to these policies.
Deportation of 6-Year-Old Puts Spotlight on ICE’s Detention of Families
Luis Ferré-Sadurní, The New York Times (August 20, 2025)
Immigration authorities have detained nearly 50 children in the New York City area since January, and at least 38 of them have been deported.
Trump’s Immigration System Puts Kids at Risk
Ruchira Gupta, TIME (August 21, 2025)
Current U.S. immigration policies are using children as enforcement tool by accessing shelter data to target sponsors for detention and deportation, causing families to withdraw from sponsoring children, leaving kids stranded in shelters longer, and creating vulnerabilities to trafficking.
Hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children can stay in the U.S. for now, judge says
Chiara Eisner, NPR (August 31, 2025)
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children, giving lawyers 14 more days to work the case and preventing any children from being removed during the next two weeks.
