Resources

Make a Plan: Migrant Parents’ Guide to Preventing Family Separation

By | Child Well-Being, Deportation, Detention, Family Separation, ICE, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Relief, Kinship Care, Parental Interests Directive, Practice Highlight, Youth & Families

Make a Plan: Migrant Parents’ Guide to Preventing Family Separation

Women’s Refugee Commission, undated

Available in both English and Spanish, this guide helps immigrant parents understand their rights and prepare for the possibility of separation.

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U.S. Citizen Children Impacted by Immigration Enforcement

By | Child Well-Being, Deportation, Detention, Foster Care, ICE, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Research Highlight

U.S. Citizen Children Impacted by Immigration Enforcement

by American Immigration Council, March 28, 2017

This fact sheet provides an overview of these citizen children and the risks and challenges they may face as well as mechanisms designed to protect them when a parent is detained/deported.

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Spanish-language Early Education Instructional Video to Help Immigrant Parents Talk to Kids

By | Child Well-Being, Family Separation, Immigration Relief, Practice Highlight, Spanish Resources, Youth & Families

Spanish-language Early Education Instructional Video to Help Immigrant Parents Talk to Kids

Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors (2017)

New video helps Spanish-speaking parents understand how to communicate with their children in uncertain immigration circumstances.

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Immigration and Child Welfare: What do We Need to Know in 2017?

By | Child Well-Being, Federal Policy, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Relief, Law & Policy, Law/Policy Highlight, Legal/Law, Parental Interests Directive, Presentations

Immigration and Child Welfare: What do We Need to Know in 2017?

Amy Lemley, Angie Junck, and Rachel Prandini; John Burton Advocates for Youth and ILRC (June 23, 2017)

This web seminar discusses: 1) what is happening nationally with immigration law and policy; 2) protections for immigrant families in child welfare; and 3) immigration relief options for children and families.

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California’s Due Process Crisis: Access to Legal Counsel for Detained Immigrants

By | Deportation, Detention, Immigrant Families Research, Immigration Enforcement, Legal/Law, Research Highlight

California’s Due Process Crisis: Access to Legal Counsel for Detained Immigrants

California Coalition for Universal Representation (June 2017)

This report shows that 68% of detained immigrants in CA are unrepresented. Legal representation can be a major determining factor in the outcome of immigration cases, as those with counsel succeed more than five times as often their unrepresented counterparts. As such, it is both fiscally responsible and morally necessary for CA to defend its residents facing detention and deportation.

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