NIPNLG, Aug. 29, 2024 " IMPORTANT UPDATE: PROPOSED SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT PRELIMINARILY APPROVED J.O.P. v. DHS , No. 19-1944, is a certified nationwide class action venued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland challenging a Trump administration...
Matter of D. Rodriguez, 28 I&N Dec. 815 (BIA 2024) (1) A conviction for an attempt to commit a crime may constitute a crime of child abuse, child neglect, or child abandonment under section 237(a)(2)(E)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C....
DOJ, July 18, 2024 "The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Southwest Key Programs Inc. (Southwest Key), a Texas-based nonprofit that provides housing to unaccompanied children who are encountered at the southern land border of the United States...
USCIS, July 18, 2024 "The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provides that U.S. citizens may transmit citizenship to their children born outside of the United States in certain circumstances. Children who were born outside of the United States to a U...
ABA Children’s Immigration Law Academy, Jan. 2024 - "The ABA Children’s Immigration Law Academy (CILA) wishes you a Happy New Year and looks forward to continuing to support all the work that you do to help immigrant youth and children in 2024...
EOIR, Dec. 23, 2023 "This Director’s Memorandum (DM) provides guidance to Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) adjudicators and personnel on cases in immigration court where the lead or sole respondent, or a witness, is a child. Cases where...
Alisa Reznick, Fronteras, Dec. 13, 2023 "A new report shows thousands of children have been ordered deported in immigration proceedings under the Biden administration — including some under 5 years old, and others here alone — despite the administration’s...
Hannah Dreier, Brent McDonald, Nicole Salazar, Annie Correal and Carson Kessler, New York Times, Dec. 14, 2023 "... Children working on construction sites are six times as likely to be killed as minors doing other work, according to the National Institute...
Seth Freed Wessler, New York Times, Dec. 6, 2023 "People intercepted at sea, even in U.S. waters, have fewer rights than those who come by land. “Asylum does not apply at sea,” a Coast Guard spokesman told me. Even people who are fleeing violence...
Georgetown University, Apr. 18, 2023 "Tuesday, April 18, 2023 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. EDT Location: Online (Zoom) In February 2023, the New York Times published “ Alone and Exploited, ” a harrowing article on the experiences of newly-arrived...
Young Center, Feb. 2023 "Expedited processes prioritize speed over fairness in considering children’s asylum cases. They deny the reality of children’s distinct developmental stages; the impact of trauma on their ability to build their case; their need for...
Melissa Sanchez, Maryam Jameel, ProPublica, Feb. 23, 2023 "When an 8-year-old Nicaraguan boy was run over on a Wisconsin dairy farm, authorities blamed his father and closed the case. Meanwhile, the community of immigrant workers knows a completely different...
USCIS, Apr. 21, 2023 "This guidance, contained in Volume 5 of the Policy Manual, consolidates and clarifies existing guidance on how citizenship and naturalization provisions apply to adoptees and supplements policy in Volume 12 of the Policy Manual on citizenship...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 04/11/2023 "This notice announces enhancements to the Central American Minors (CAM) Program by, among other things, updating certain eligibility criteria for program access. The CAM Program...
By Hannah Dreier and Photographs By Kirsten Luce, NYT, Feb. 26, 2023 "These workers are part of a new economy of exploitation: Migrant children, who have been coming into the United States without their parents in record numbers, are ending up in some...