Public Charge: A Threat to Children’s Health and Well-Being
CLASP (October, 2018)
This fact-sheet reviews the proposed Trump administration changes to the public charge rule, and their potential impact on children of immigrants.
Hundreds of Migrant Children Held in U.S. Tent City for Months: Filings
Tom Hals and Kristina Cooke, U.S. News (October, 2018)
U.S. authorities have held some immigrant children who entered the country illegally and without a parent in a temporary “tent city” in Texas for months, violating a 20-year-old court order on how long minors can be detained, according to court filings by civil rights lawyers and immigration advocates.
Read MoreNo End in Sight, Why Migrants Give Up on Their U.S. Immigration Cases
Southern Poverty Law Center (October 24, 2018)
Every day, thousands of people are locked away in detention centers – essentially prisons – as they pursue their immigration cases and the hope of a new life in the United States. Many have fled violence and bodily harm in their home countries. But all too often, detained immigrants, particularly in the Deep South, give up on their cases because their conditions of confinement are too crushing to bear.
Reunited Families Grow Desperate In Texas Family Detention Centers
Bonnie Petrie, Texas Public Radio (October 24, 2018)
Two family detention centers in Texas currently hold several dozen immigrant families. They had been reunited in July but then officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement returned them to detention, where they have languished for months.
Read MoreWhy Do People Migrate?: The Context of Migration from Central America and Mexico to the United States
Mary Lehman Held, Skye Allmang, Jayleen Galarza, Jennifer Scott, Iván A. de la Rosa; Center on Immigration and Child Welfare (October 2018)
This research brief explores some of the major push and pull factors for migration to the United States from Central America and Mexico.
Half the people caught by Border Patrol are now children or families
Dara Lind, Vox (October 23, 2018)
In September 2018, for only the second time since the government started keeping records, more than half of people caught by Border Patrol agents at the US-Mexico border were parents traveling with their children or children traveling alone.
Read MoreChanging Public Charge Immigration Rules: The Potential Impact on Children Who Need Care
Leah Zallman and Karen Finnegan, California Health Care Foundation (October 23, 2018)
This issue brief discusses how the Trump administration changes to the public charge rule could impact Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollment among a particularly vulnerable group: low- and moderate-income children “in need of medical attention,” defined as children with a current or recent medical diagnosis, disability, and/or need for specific therapy.
Trump’s Plans to Deter Migrants Could Mean New ‘Voluntary’ Family Separations
Miriam Jordan, Caitlin Dickerson and Michael D. Shear, The New York Times ( October 22, 2018)
The Trump administration, facing a surge in migrant families entering the United States, is moving swiftly to examine an array of new policies it hopes will deter Central Americans from journeying north.
Read MoreImmigrant children still being drugged at shelter despite judge’s order, lawyers say
The government is violating a federal judge’s order to stop medicating immigrant children held at a troubled Texas shelter without proper consent and to move the children to other housing, attorneys for the children allege in new court filings.
Read MoreThe High Costs of the Proposed Flores Regulation
Philip E. Wolgin, Center for American Progress (October 19, 2018)
The Center for American Progress estimates that, over a decade, the proposed rule to dissolve the Flores Settlement, which would allow the Trump administration to indefinitely incarcerate children, would cost DHS slightly more than $2 billion at the low end, and as much as $12.9 billion at the high end.
