KIND and HIAS Launch New Project to Serve Forcibly Separated Families

Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) and HIAS today announced a new joint project to provide representation to forcibly separated immigrant and refugee families who…...

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KIND Statement on Homeland Security Advisory Council’s Recommendations for Children in Government Care

KIND rejects the Homeland Security Advisory Council’s CBP Families and Children Care Panel emergency interim report that proposes sweeping and detrimental changes to the treatment,…...

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Cutting Aid to Central America Will Drive More Child Migration

President Trump’s move to cut foreign assistance to Central America will contribute to greater violence, lawlessness, and impunity in these countries and drive even more…...

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KIND Supports Three Important Immigration Bills

KIND would like to thank Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) for their leadership in introducing three important immigration bills which will…...

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McConnell-Trump Bill: Dangerous and Disingenuous

The Senate Republican leadership’s funding bill to end the government shutdown that would codify President Trump’s immigration proposal into law is dangerous and disingenuous.  Instead…...

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Press Telebriefing: Response to the Administration’s “Remain in Mexico” Plan

The "Remain in Mexico” fundamentally upends U.S. refugee and asylum policy and places vulnerable children at a greater risk for harm....

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New Protocol to Force Migrants to Wait in Mexico is Dangerous and Deadly

Days after the murder of two unaccompanied boys who were waiting at the U.S. Mexico border in order to apply for U.S. protection, Secretary of…...

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KIND Deeply Disturbed by Murder of Two Migrant Boys from Honduras in Tijuana

“These murders should never have happened,” said KIND President Wendy Young....

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Press Telebriefing: Children’s lack of access to protection at the border

Unaccompanied children in border camps in Tijuana are at grave risk of serious harm and are being prevented from applying for asylum by the Trump…...

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