DHS Issues Final DACA Regulations
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (August 26, 2022)
DHS has released a final rule to take effect on Oct. 31st. that codifies and preserves DACA, while maintaining the existing eligibility guidelines.
Post-Release Services for Unaccompanied Minors: Current Gaps and Needed Improvements
Kerri Evans & Tatiana Londoño, Center on Immigration and Child Welfare (August 2022)
This research brief by the CICW Research Workgroup provides background and highlights gaps in the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s Post-Release Services program for unaccompanied minors and offers research-based recommendations for improvements.
Megan Finno-Velasquez, Sophia Sepp, and Vanessa Mendoza; Center on Immigration and Child Welfare (July 2022)
This brief summaries the key findings and recommendations from the second phase of the Strengthening Border Families study, which elicited the perspectives of frontline practitioners who serve immigrant families across a variety of service settings in the community about the accessibility and quality of services for immigrant families with young children in the Doña Ana County. It is also available in Spanish here.
Neighbourhood and family correlates of immigrant children’s mental health: a population-based cross-sectional study in Canada
Amanda Sim & Katholiki Georgiades, BMC Psychiatry (July 5, 2022)
This research explored immigrant children’s mental health and impacts of various neighborhood and family contexts.
Over One Third of Lower-income Latino Adults Living with Children Have Frequent Anxiety or Depressive Symptoms, and Most Do Not Receive Mental Health Services
Yiyu Chen & María A. Ramos-Olazagasti, National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families (July 19, 2022)
This research describes mental health symptoms and service receipt among Latino adults with children.
DHS Enforcement Priorities Updates
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (July 22, 2022)
This resource provides a summary and FAQ of the recent federal court ruling regarding DHS immigration enforcement priorities.
Immigrant Children’s Medicaid and CHIP Access and Participation: A Data Profile
Valerie Lacarte, Migration Policy Institute (June 2022)
This policy brief discusses the state of immigrant children’s eligibility and coverage by Medicaid and CHIP in 2019.
Immigrant and Community Integration Step by Step Guide to Local Integration Programming
Ben Brokaw & Leya Speasmaker, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (June 2020)
This resource provides key steps for organizations in the design, implementation, evaluation, and reassessment of immigrant integration endeavors.
Community Integration Toolkit
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (June 21, 2022)
This resource accompanies CLINICS’s “Immigrant and Community Integration Step by Step Guide to Local Integration Programming” to provide additional information content and worksheets to support integration projects.
Five years later: A timeline of migrant family separations
Aline Barros, VOA News (July 2022)
This article provides an overview of what has happened in the 5 years since the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy.
