A new federal law, called the Family First Prevention Services Act, prioritizes keeping families together and puts more money toward at-home parenting classes, mental health counseling and substance abuse treatment — and puts limits on placing children in institutional settings such as group homes
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This updated version of the Parental Interests Directive was recently made available to the public and contains new language and information.
Read moreUsing ethnographic research, the contributors of this text explore and present how children of immigrants build a sense of identity and community in the age of the digital world.
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The ACLU of Massachusetts filed a class action lawsuit against President Trump and other administration officials on behalf of a Rhode Island resident and Guatemalan native, along with six similarly-situated plaintiffs, in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The lawsuit argues that ICE’s efforts to detain and remove the non-citizens in the suit violates the rights of all petitioners under the due process and equal protection guarantees of the US Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act and its regulations, and the Administrative Procedure Act.
Read MoreUndocumented immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border increasingly consist of asylum seekers fleeing record levels of violence in Central America. But the Trump administration’s response to this humanitarian crisis has been unforgiving. In fact, the administration has recently made two policy announcements with the goal of further criminalizing immigrants apprehended crossing the border, as well as keeping them in immigration detention indefinitely.
Read MoreAn internal federal immigration handbook’s regulations outlining how minors “aging out” of custody are supposed to be treated contrasts starkly with realities on the ground, according to immigration advocates and a federal judge’s ruling.
Read MoreThis article discusses how immigrants going to marriage interviews are being arrested and detained by ICE.
Read MoreImmigrant youth are being denied green cards through SIJS as a result of an unannounced policy reversal by the Trump administration.
Read moreThis article discusses the 287g program which allows the federal government to collaborate with state and local law enforcement, whose officers can then perform the functions of federal immigration agents.
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