Immigrant youth and legal service providers filed a class action lawsuit challenging the termination of the deferred action policy that protected immigrant children and youth who fled their home countries due to parental neglect, abuse, and other mistreatment.
When an immigrant mother’s brief jail sentence turned into over four months in immigration detention, her son ended up in foster care for an extended period.
The Trump administration is having federal agents ask unaccompanied migrant teens if they want to voluntarily leave the country as a way to speed up deportations, according to government officials.
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending birthright citizenship for children of undocumented parents in the third nationwide court ruling against the order since a June Supreme Court decision.
Several students who were enrolled in U.S. K-12 schools last year will not be returning this fall because ICE has deported them to other countries.
Immigrant children are being held in “unsafe and unsanitary” detention facilities with inadequate medical care while the Trump administration seeks to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement that has mandated basic protections and oversight for detained immigrant children since 1997.
This panel, featuring CICW Director Kristina Lovato, will provide practical strategies for supporting immigrant families and children during increased immigration enforcement, covering topics like discussing raids with children, creating family preparedness plans, and accessing resources for the back-to-school season.
ICE released a revised Detained Parents Directive that provides guidelines for ensuring detained or deported immigrant parents can make decisions about their minor children’s care and participate in child welfare and family court proceedings.
This policy brief analyzes administrative California child welfare data of undocumented immigrant youth in foster care, finding that immigration status data is often missing and that both U.S. citizens and undocumented youth were more likely to have transition plans than legal residents, highlighting needs for better services and data collection.
This research brief reviews the impact of state policy exclusions on immigrant family well-being.
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