KIND was founded by the Microsoft Corporation and UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie, and is the leading national organization that works to ensure that no refugee or immigrant child faces immigration court alone. We do this in partnership with over 600 law firms, corporate legal departments, law schools, and bar associations. KIND has served more than 18,300 children since 2009, and trained over 42,000 private sector attorneys, paralegals, and law students to provide them with high quality representation in their deportation proceedings. KIND promotes protection of children in countries of origin and transit countries and works to address the root causes of child migration from Central America. KIND also advocates to change law, policy, and practices to improve the protection of unaccompanied children in the United States, by educating policymakers, the media, and the broader public about the violence that is driving children out of Central America and their need for protection.
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Today, a federal judge said that he would sign on Monday the settlement agreement in the Ms. L v ICE family separation lawsuit filed on October 23, 2023 which would provide restitution to children and families harmed by forcible separation brought about by the Zero Tolerance Policy. As the largest legal services provider in the […]
Read MoreOpportunities for Youth (OFY) California is consistently one of the top three states receiving unaccompanied children and in the country. Since 2014, California has received over 60,350 unaccompanied youth. In Fiscal Year 2022 alone, there was a historic high of 13,730 unaccompanied youth released to sponsors in California. Acknowledging the dire gaps in expert knowledge […]
Read MoreRead KIND’s Fall 2023 Newsletter Looking Back and Looking Forward: Five Years After Zero Tolerance It has been five years since thousands of children were wrenched from their parents’ arms and forcibly separated under the barbaric Zero Tolerance Policy–resulting in more than 5,400 child separations that lasted weeks, months, years, and for some, to this […]
Read MoreKIND’s Comments on ORR’s Unaccompanied Children Program Foundational Rule Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) respectfully submits this comment in response to the Federal Register notice of proposed rulemaking (“NPRM”) published by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) on October 4th, 2023, titled “Unaccompanied Children Program Foundational Rule,” 88 Fed. Reg. 68098. KIND appreciates ORR’s […]
Read MoreMegan McKenna, Senior Director of Communications and Community Engagement mmckenna@supportkind.org
Alexandra Pender, Senior Communications Manager, apender@supportkind.org
Alejandra Paz, Communications Project Coordinator, apaz@supportkind.org
