This report provides data and information on the changed characteristics of migration reaching the U.S.-Mexico border. It concludes with addressing the crisis gripping the border and calls for a transformation.
Doctors associated with Harvard and Johns Hopkins called for an investigation into health care at border facilities in a letter to members of Congress Thursday. The letter comes in response to the deaths of six migrant children either in government custody or soon after their release.
Read MoreFor the first time, an employee inside Homestead is speaking out – offering unique insights into how the migrant children are being treated.
Read MoreThe American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge Tuesday to block the Trump administration from continuing to separate migrant children from their parents, saying in court documents that more than 900 children have been separated from their parents since the practice was ordered to be stopped last year.
Read MoreThe Migration Policy Institute is launching a major new initiative—Rethinking U.S. Immigration Policy—that aims to generate a big-picture, evidence-driven vision of the role immigration can and should play in America’s future. This multi-year initiative will provide research, analysis, and policy ideas and proposals. This conference will be the launching of this initiative and will include a discussion among individuals from both political parties.
Link to RegistrationThis two-day event will take place on October 17th and 18th, 2019 at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. This conference will allow legal, judicial, social service, and advocacy professionals to share and implement best practices to protect the long term safety of cross border children and families.
Link to Early Bird RegistrationThe Office of Refugee Resettlement, the government agency that operates all shelters for migrant children, has confirmed it has not yet contracted with any legal aid providers to give the kids access to counsel. The children face deportation proceedings and are already getting court dates, according to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), which has stepped in to offer free legal counsel in the absence of a contract.
Read MoreDemocratic lawmakers accused Kevin K. McAleenan, the acting secretary of homeland security, of leading an agency with an “empathy deficit” during a hearing on Thursday that focused on the separation of migrant children from their parents and reports of poor conditions at holding facilities near the border.
Read MoreThe conditions at border detention facilities provide irrefutable evidence of the child maltreatment that President Trump commits in our names—and state officials need to take action to end the cruelty.
Read MoreThe below is a collection of Know Your Rights resources to help prepare parents, community members, and attorneys on ICE raids on the sponsors of unaccompanied children and families.
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