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Child Health
CDF-Texas, Partners Respond as Trump Administration Reopens Child and Family Detention Centers in Texas
Children’s Defense Fund-Texas (CDF-Texas) and its youth and immigrant advocacy partners warn that President Donald Trump’s decision to reopen detention facilities in Texas to jail immigrant families could create an array of negative physical and mental impacts for children.
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Immigration
CDF, CDF-Texas Endorse ‘American Dream and Promise Act’ to Protect Nation’s Dreamers, Provide Path to Citizenship
Children’s Defense Fund and Children’s Defense Fund-Texas have endorsed the American Dream and Promise Act, legislation that would grant permanent protections to Dreamers, immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children, as well as individuals with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED).
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Immigration
What to Know about Trump’s Executive Order Seeking to End Birthright Citizenship
On his first day back in office, President Trump announced an executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for certain children born in the U.S.
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Child Health
NEW: Georgetown University Study Shows Proposed Federal Medicaid Cuts Could Have Extreme Impact on Children in Rural Texas
The study found nearly one in three rural children in Texas depend on Medicaid. More than 239,000 children in Texas’ small towns rely on Medicaid/CHIP coverage.
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Immigration
Statement for the Record U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs “Remain in Mexico”
Based on our extensive expertise working at the intersection of immigration policy and child well-being, CDF-TX strongly opposes reinstatement of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), widely known as the Remain in Mexico policy.
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Immigration
Vote NO on HR 29, Laken Riley Act
Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) and Children’s Defense Fund-Texas (CDF-Texas) urges you to vote NO on HR 29, the Laken Riley Act. This is not a border security bill. HR 29 is a discriminatory, anti-immigrant bill that violates the U.S. Constitution by rolling back basic due process protections that protect those who are wrongfully arrested from losing their immigration status.
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Immigration
Statement for the Record
CDF-TX strongly opposes the policy of mass deportations proposed by the incoming presidential administration.
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Immigration
Policy Overview RE Bills Blocking Access to Education for Immigrant Children
The 89 Texas legislative session will begin January 14, 2025, and the filing period for bills started in November, which means that some of the proposed legislation that will be considered and voted on by our state legislature has already been introduced.
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Child Health
Texas Hospitals Required to Ask About Immigration Status
As of November 1, 2024, Executive Order GA-46 requires the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to direct Texas hospitals to ask patients about their immigration status.