Featured Issue: 2019 Large-Scale Enforcement Actions and Raids
American Immigration Lawyers Association (August 2019)
This webpage provides various resources to assist in responding to large-scale immigration enforcement actions and raids.
A Trump Administration Proposal is Scaring Immigrant Families Away from Public Benefits
Gabrielle Jacobovitz, Huffpost (August 7, 2019)
The Trump administration’s proposed changes to a regulation affecting green card and visa applications have prompted immigrants to forgo accessing public benefits, according to an Urban Institute study released on Wednesday.
Read MoreEarly Learning Specialist/Home Visitor Procedures – If ICE Knocks on the Door During a Home Visit
Parent Child Plus (August 2019)
This resource provides know-your-rights information and guidance on procedures for home visitors and other professionals for situations in which ICE comes to a family’s home during a home visit.
Trump’s Immigration Proposals Don’t Need to Happen to Cause Harm. That’s The Point.
Gabrielle Jacobovitz, Huffpost (August 2, 2019)
Though Trump has followed through on many similarly harsh anti-immigrant plans, others remain simply threats. But dispersed through proposals, tweets, public provocations, leaks and the media, those unrealized proposals have already had dramatic consequences.
Read MoreMexicans Decline to Less Than Half the U.S. Unauthorized Immigrant Population for the First Time
Jeffrey S. Passel & D’vera Cohn, Pew Research Center (June 12, 2019)
This article details the decline in Mexicans who make up the U.S. undocumented immigrant population while an increase has been noted in lawful U.S. immigrants.
From Control to Crisis: Changing Trends and Policies Reshaping U.S.-Mexico Border Enforcement
Randy Capps, Doris Meissner, Ariel G. Ruiz Soto, Jessica Bolter, & Sarah Pierce, Migration Policy Institute (August 2019)
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 Call for Investigation after 3 Migrant Children in Custody Die of Flu
CBS News (August 1, 2019)
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 MoreWorker Speaks Out about Conditions Inside Facility for Unaccompanied Minors near Homestead
Jim DeFede, CBS Miami (August 1, 2019)
For the first time, an employee inside Homestead is speaking out – offering unique insights into how the migrant children are being treated.
Read MoreACLU Says More Than 900 Migrant Children Separated from Parents in Last Year
Daniella Silva, NBC News (July 30, 2019)
The 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 MoreRethinking U.S. Immigration Policy: Building a Responsive, Effective Immigration System
Migration Policy Institute (August 12, 2019)
The 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 Registration