This practice advisory outlines ongoing DACA trends, policy changes, and potential future scenarios amid uncertain litigation and Trump administration attacks on immigrants, providing crucial information for advocates to help DACA holders strategize and prepare for possible changes to the program.
This policy brief documents how the Trump administration is using government agencies to separate families and remove thousands of children from the U.S., disregarding children’s rights and safety while deepening trauma and blocking reunification, and calls for urgent action to restore protections for family unity and children’s well-being.
This is a two-day intensive workshop introducing mental health professionals to conducting assessments in support of immigration cases.
This webinar will cover the history and harms of family detention in immigration enforcement and offers practical skills for providing services and advocacy to affected individuals, families, and communities.
This webinar will share new messaging research to help advocates effectively communicate with audiences about the challenges faced by children in immigrant families during heightened enforcement.
This session will train social workers in culturally responsive, trauma-informed approaches for supporting immigrant clients facing fear, separation, and legal uncertainty during heightened enforcement, while also addressing practitioners’ own wellbeing through self-care and collective care strategies to prevent burnout.
This training with immigration attorney Katie Blankenship covers how to safely conduct research with immigrant communities during the current challenging enforcement climate.
This University of Virginia conference (April 24-26, 2026) invites papers examining familial and unaccompanied migration to the U.S. through humanities and social sciences lenses, exploring how border securitization, migrant experiences, and shifting democratic norms intersect with issues of detention, deportation, and the political framing of undocumented migrants.
California’s Attorney General has issued updated guidelines clarifying how schools, from K-12 through community colleges, should respond to ICE attempts to enter campuses, aiming to standardize protections for students and families statewide.
The Trump administration’s deportation campaign in Chicago has caused heightened anxiety and panic attacks in immigrant communities, with families reporting immediate and lasting physical and emotional impacts on children whose parents were detained, even after reunification.
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