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Immigration

Trump Administration Admits Additional Family Separations

The government told a federal court last month that an additional 1,556 immigrant children and parents were separated at the border under the Trump administration’s evil family separation policy. Families belong together—not torn apart at our border, nor separated within our interior communities. Together.

November 4, 2019 | National

Child Welfare

Protecting Immigrant Communities Newsletter: 11/1/19

Here’s the latest roundup of immigration-related news, and our bi-weekly action opportunity.

November 1, 2019 | Texas

Immigration

Going Forward: Who Speaks and Who Listens in the Immigration Conversation?

“When immigrants are under attack, what do we do? Stand up. Fight back!”

October 22, 2019 | National

Child Welfare

Protecting Immigrant Communities Newsletter: 10/15/19

Here’s the latest roundup of immigration-related news, and our bi-weekly action opportunity.

October 15, 2019 | Texas

Child Welfare

Breaking News from the Protecting Immigrant Families (PIF) Campaign

Here’s the latest roundup of immigration-related news, and our bi-weekly action opportunity.

October 11, 2019 | Texas

Immigration

Canceling DACA Would Imperil America’s Future

The government’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program imperils our children’s—and nation’s—future success.

October 7, 2019 | National

Immigration

Amicus Brief Regarding the Harms of Rescinding DACA

CDF joined three dozen organizations and leaders in filing a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the Court to consider the impact of rescinding DACA on beneficiaries’ children, whose interests were glaringly absent in the Trump administration’s 2017 decision.

Child Welfare

Protecting Immigrant Communities Newsletter: 10/1/19

Here’s the latest roundup of immigration-related news, and our bi-weekly action opportunity.

October 1, 2019 | Texas

Immigration

Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration's Dangerous Flores Rule

In more good news and another victory for immigrant children, a federal judge upheld a landmark 1997 court settlement governing the standards of care for immigrant children in U.S. custody, rejecting the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle protections for immigrant children and supplant them with regulations that would have had a devastating impact on children’s health, education and general welfare.

October 1, 2019 | National

Immigration

Trump Administration Lifts Freeze on Medical Deferred Action

When the Department of Homeland Security notified Congress one week after the emergency hearing that it would reverse its misguided revocation of medical deferred action, it was, as Rep. Jamie Raskin, said, “[A] moment of good news.” That’s a moment of good news achieved by immigrant families, advocates and Congressional intervention. Here’s to many good moments to come.

September 27, 2019 | National