Resources

Deportation Preparation Manual for Immigrant Families

By | Deportation, Detention, Family Separation, ICE, Immigration Enforcement, Practice, Practice Highlight, Youth & Families

Deportation Preparation Manual for Immigrant Families

Appleseed Network (July 2025)

This manual contains detailed information on issues like school safety, child custody, psychological issues for children, and much more in order for immigrant families to prepare for potential deportation. It’s available in both English and Spanish. There is also an accompanying webinar reviewing the manual.

Immigration “Wellness Checks” For Children: What sponsors, household members, and young people need to know

By | Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Practice Highlight, Unaccompanied Minors, Youth & Families

Immigration “Wellness Checks” For Children: What sponsors, household members, and young people need to know

Immigrant Legal Resource Center (July 16, 2025)

This resource addresses the “wellness checks” federal officials are conducting on unaccompanied immigrant children and their sponsors and what families need to know about their rights and seeking legal support.

Protecting Children in Schools Against Immigration Enforcement: What Schools and Parents Can Do

By | Immigration Enforcement, Practice, Practice Highlight, Social Work, Social Workers, Youth & Families

Protecting Children in Schools Against Immigration Enforcement: What Schools and Parents Can Do

Immigrant Legal Resource Center (July 28, 2025)

This resource toolkit provides guidance for students, parents, and school administrators on how to prepare for immigration enforcement at schools while explaining the constitutional protections and educational rights that remain in place despite recent policy changes under the Trump administration.

Family separation 2.0 compounds the trauma on children of immigrants

By | In the News

Family separation 2.0 compounds the trauma on children of immigrants

Marsha Griffin, Alan Shapiro and Julie M. Linton; Los Angeles Times, MSN (July 1, 2025)

Pediatricians from the American Academy of Pediatrics share an urgent call opposing the current administration’s immigration policies, which are causing harmful family separations and detaining children in conditions that lead to severe psychological trauma, developmental regression, and inadequate healthcare.

Immigrant Youth and Legal Services Providers File Class Action Challenging Government’s Unlawful Termination of Deferred Action for Immigrant Children and Youth

By | In the News

Immigrant Youth and Legal Services Providers File Class Action Challenging Government’s Unlawful Termination of Deferred Action for Immigrant Children and Youth

National Immigration Project (July 17, 2025)

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.

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