Economic stimulus payments, also known as cash assistance, help families make ends meet during this crisis and they also support children’s well-being and healthy development. Politicians must act swiftly to ensure the next COVID relief package is the most robust and inclusive yet, and that must include our immigrant neighbors and their children. Let’s live up to our values and do right by our kids, no matter where they come from or what they look like.
The Texas office of the Children’s Defense Fund is outraged by the President’s recent memorandum on the Census, in which he attempts to mandate that undocumented Americans be excluded in the final census count used to apportion Congressional representation.
The “Civil Gideon” argument advocates for immigrants, along with other indigent civil defendants, to have a categorical right to legal counsel by extending the Gideon v. Wainwright precedent to civil proceedings.
