This report draws on interviews with 56 immigrant parents and 67 service providers across seven states to paint a stark picture of how the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement has destabilized families with young children, eroding their sense of safety in even the most everyday spaces.
This interactive tool estimates how many children — including U.S. citizens — have likely been separated from a detained parent under different enforcement scenarios.
This policy brief documents how the Trump administration’s immigration policies are separating families and undermining children’s rights and safety, and calls for an urgent recommitment to protections that prioritize family unity and children’s well-being.
This spotlight documents how escalating ICE and CBP enforcement is deterring unaccompanied children from accessing public education amid emerging threats to the Plyler v. Doe ruling that guarantees all children the right to attend school regardless of immigration status.
This website, which is continually updated, includes a complete compilation of Trump 1.0 and 2.0 immigration policies, in an indexed, summarized, and searchable format with key source documents.
This toolkit offers research-backed, trauma-informed strategies and practical guidance to help clinical and non-clinical service providers support the well-being, resilience, and dignity of unaccompanied and separated children across a range of settings.
This practice alert breaks down USCIS’s April 2026 memo terminating automatic deferred action consideration for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) petitioners, with guidance on how the change affects petitions filed before and after the May 10 effective date.
This practice guide equips service providers with trauma-informed, child-centered strategies — grounded in the CARE framework — to support children and youth experiencing prolonged detention in ORR custody and beyond.
The Emmy-winning 2019 documentary Kids Caught in the Crackdown, which investigated the historic surge in migrant children detained under Trump’s first term and its lasting psychological toll, is now free to stream on YouTube for the first time.
A newly filed class-action lawsuit accuses Washington state’s child welfare system of failing to protect immigrant youth in its custody by neglecting their immigration-related legal needs, leaving them vulnerable to deportation and unable to access public benefits.
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